Wow amazing……………!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Kita punya one brother Mendi yang baby face banget, rededicated his life to God. Praise the Lord……….!!!!!! Actually dia baru join kita for a few times only, but he is so friendly, nice, n murah senyum banget. heuheue…. A cheerful brother…..
tu terbukti kan Mendi murah senyum
para bro kita ini seneng banget dari muka nya….. apa apa gerangan????? ^-*
Enjoy…… enjoy…… n really enjoy…………. ke camp nya. Pokok e no regret. Malem malem supper sate celup plus burger ramly. Hm….. yummy…..!!!!!!!! Energy level alwayz full from morning till nite. Smiley faces were everywhere. heuheuhuehue…….. Penasaran? Ayo kita baca testimony dari brothers and sister kita
Nelson – In the beginning, I was not excited going to Malacca for the church camp due to my heavy workload. I thought that I might get bored but I made an objective for it before I went. I wanted to get an answer from God during the church camp. On the first day when I looked at the program, it was all about teaching and I was not so excited about it. At night, Hari and Velly prayed for me for the Holy Spirit baptism but it was not successful. I told Velly that something might hold me. I also told him that I was able to speak in tongue before but I lost ability since I was far from God. Then Velly told me to try it again during the worship. On the second day, I tried to speak in tongue during the worship, but it was not successful as well. However, I received an answer from God during the teaching. On that day, I was able to speak in tongue again by the help of my brothers (Jorry, Eddy, and Joni). During the prayer, I totally gave myself to God and confessed all my sin to Him. At that time I suddenly cried like a baby and I could not hold my tear. After that, I felt all my body was light and I started to speak in tongue. Then during the teaching, I was so excited about it. I thank God for this experience and I never regret going to Malacca for the camp because I could experience God during the camp.
Suwasti – When the church camp was announced and ‘promoted’ in the service, I was not interested to come. I went to some camps and conferences before, got a totally refreshing time and renewal in the spirit, so I did somehow like it. The thing was that … I just had no desire to go. I did not see the value, as I believed that no matter where I am, I know that I must be there for a reason (God was to decide). I was not so sure that I would enjoy it as much as when I was back in Hope PJ where I had lots of close and good friends, the hang out buddies . Basically, it was just not on my priority list. My focus was more on serving my friend, who was after diagnosed, suffer from a dengue; and on building up a good relationship with her housemate, at God’s special request. The word of God on my daily walk with Him was dealing more on my relationship, in loving my enemies and faith in God, rather than directing me to go. I remember telling a brother that I would go, if within that one week before the last registration day, I got a job. And guess what … I got two offers right within one week, and that was only a day after I sent my resume, right after obeying God’s special request. I made up my choice and got the offer letter. However, my employment pass was not done yet and social visit pass was expiring within 2 weeks (which was a week after church camp) and could not be extended anymore.
I need to thank Velly and Suryani as God was utilizing both of them to be His light on my path. Both of them encouraged me to come and practice my faith, telling me that if I have a desire, God will give me the desire of my heart. Questions lingered in my mind ready to flow out, but I chose to quiet down and draw myself near to God. I had stopped having my own desire, since the last time God took away what He had given me. I learn to want what God wants, to desire His desire and no persuasion shall come across me successfully if He does not give me any signal to step forward. I was afraid to be hurt again, so I did not want to put too much hope.
That exact night, God reminded me of His faithfulness in answering all my doubts throughout the past 1 week. I got a job, even an offer letter, and not forgetting the room for me to stay (2 days before departure). He gave me an open door for all conditions I had set for going to the camp. He gave me a right to choose and he had left me with only one thought, “God is giving me one last step, a step of faith” That was probably the toughest test God has given me in practicing my faith. He told me that it was His idea to fuel my faith, my fire within and to practice my spiritual vision.
Looking back, I believe it was truly God’s grace for me to go as a fueling time of my spirit and a chance to extend my permit to stay in Singapore. I did my part, and He did His part. During church camp, I was reminded to trust in Him and not myself, to be in total humility (as to listen to others advice though I know it), and to love God’s word. While I was passing by the Singapore immigration border, He gave me peace and wisdom to face the personnel. His presence was strengthening me every second I was inside. He softened the lady’s heart and in return I got another 1 month stay to settle my employment pass. Praise GOD!!
Spiritual maturity is not about how well we know God’s word or how long we have been serving, it is how much we obey God’s word through our lives. Miracle is the sign of our obedience, and I have experienced it myself. Deut 28:1, “If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all His commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.” Let’s have Faith in Him, taking every step according to His will, even if it means to get out of our comfort zone! ^-^
Hans - Be it the constant experiencing of God’s presence, the quality time spent learning God’s words, the atmosphere during praise & worship and the time of fellowshipping.
Personally, I learnt a lot during those 4 days. One of the things that I learnt is about having a word-centered life, where we have to build ourselves not around our personality but around the word of God. I will be the first one to admit that I did not have enough knowledge of God’s word and that is really the main reasons that stop me from growing spiritually. It is just impossible to build a relationship with God if you don’t love Him, you can’t love Him without knowing Him and how can you know Him if you do not know his Word. Since I came back from church camp, I start to spend more time reading the bible and meditating on the Word. Another thing that I learnt is that we have to give the best in everything we do. The bible says that whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men. So now I try to do my best in what I do, at the moment, mostly in my job search as well as house chores.
Of course, I learnt something during each teaching section but the workshops themselves are also very useful. In the EQ & Effective Relationship workshop, I learnt the arts of both communication and confrontation. These are very important aspects that are unavoidable in life. The title of the other workshop I joined is called recapturing the wonders. I once experienced a lost of interest in learning about God due to various circumstances. So this workshop, along with one of the teachings actually taught me how to remain fresh or to rediscover that first-love feeling. I learnt that the body, soul and spirit are actually interrelated. So taking care of your body is just as important as taking care of your spirit and soul. Meditating, doing mini-workout and listening to lame jokes are just some of the things that will positively affected us physically, mentally, emotionally and eventually spiritually.
We also had fun along the way, taking lots and lots of photos and enjoying the games during Theme Night. I also like to say that it’s great to see how my roommate, Velly is so enthusiast in sharing the word of Christ at night even though he was tired. Just looking at everybody so committed to God is enough to inspire me to do more for God. To conclude, I believe that each one of us is touched by God in one way or another, and that we had learnt something throughout these 4 days, so our challenge now is to apply what we learnt to our everyday life, not just for a month or a year after church camp but over the long haul, since our aim is to become a prevailing generation.
all the campers
tolong……!!!!!!!!!! bajak laut datang menyerbu kota melaka…… tapi kok bajak laut yg ini pada senyum senyum semua ya? heuheuuhe……. soal e palsu ^-*
keren…….!!!!!!!! suit… suit…….
aduh ngejreng banget baju nya……heuehue…. begini lah dress code para usher kita yang lagi on duty
motto : di mana ada camera, di situ lah mereka berada :p
Last saturday, we have a mini celebration buat our beloved New Believers selama 3 bulan ini.
Siapakah mereka? Ini lah wajah wajah mereka
Selamat sekali lagi buat kalian ^-^
Dan praise the Lord…… Tuhan ga pernah bobok :p Dia keep continue to work 24 hours. So amazed with His energy yang ga pernah abiz n ga pernah capek ^-* 2 sisters has invited Jesus into their life. Ga bisa describe dengan kata kata lagi how God works in every single heart every week, every day. Unbelievable…… but this is true……
2 sisters baru kita, Anny and Mei Mei
photo lagi photo lagi…..
God is good…
Hari sabtu kemaren, tepat nya tanggal 2 Juni, bertambah lagi a new brother in Christ into our family. Yeah………..
Siapakah dia? Siapa lagi kalo bukan Hadyanto, arek Suroboyo yang datang ke Singapore di akhir tahun lalu ^-*
Hady mulai join Indo group dari bulan December bersama dengan tiga temen nya dari Surabaya; Ufong, Andri dan Didik.
Praise the Lord, setelah 5 bulan berlalu, akhir nya dia memutuskan untuk menerima Yesus sebagai Tuhan dan Juru Selamat dalam hidup nya.
Suuueeennneeeennngggggg…. rek……!!!!!! ^-^
Kita semua sangat bersyukur dan bersuka cita akan hal ini.
So, Hady, welcome to the family…
Hady’s testimony :
There is a lot of thing that hinder me to receive Christ into my life. Since I was a child, I have been living with a family that very rationalist. Even though my father is a catholic, he never believes that what he earns in his life is all God’s blessing. He believes that he is in control for his own life and God has done nothing for his life. And that mind set also build inside of me. Even though sometimes when I was in the dark time, I came to ask God for a help. But when I am able to overcome the dark time, I will be back to control myself. Other thing, I have never feel that I am a good person especially in God’s eyes. I have even broke the 4th commandment, I hate my father so much. It is because of what he has done to me. I have never felt that I have a father. I only feel that I have a person who pays for my food, living, and school. I tend to disappoint people around me, I also did a lot of bad thing. That is why I had always feel I am not deserve to receive Him, I even asked punishment for myself. I wished God can give me punishment for what I have done in my life. Other thing that was in my mind, if I accepted Christ, I don’t know if I can be someone better especially in God’s eyes. One thing that I am afraid is if God can forgive me, then I must forgive my father. But I can not forgive him. Even right now I don’t have any desire to forgive him. That is one of the reason why I came to Singapore is to get away from him, not to see him again. Everyday I always feel uncomfortable if my father comes home. I always stay in my room when he is around. So I run away from him. Even though I believe God can change people, but me myself I don’t believe that I can be changed. But thanks to Yin San, Alex, Ming Ming, Yee Nee, and Jorry, who keep “forcing” me week after week after service to accept Jesus. And after “some” tear dropped along the way, I started to change my mind set that is wrong. Yin San said to me, that until now I don’t get the punishment that I have been looking for, that means God never intended to punish me. Jesus already forgive me by died on the cross 2000 years ago, even though I am waiting for punishment, in the end I will not get it. Who am I to judge myself, because only Jesus is the only one has the right to judge me, and He forgive me. Yin San also said to me that I can’t keep running away, past will always chasing me. Even though I know about it, but I am still running away. Last saturday when Alex asked me did I pray when I was hopeless in looking for a job in Singapore. It makes me realized that God has always help me in my life, whether I want to admit it or not. Yin San also challenge me, if God can’t change me to be a better person, which means He is not powerful enough. If He can change me, it will be good for me. Both are challenge that won’t make me lose anything. On last saturday night fight, my mind and feeling was contradicting each other. One side keep telling me not to receive Jesus, and other side tell me it is the time. I can’t decide at that time. And when Yin San said, ” It is not about how you feel, but it is about your choice. Why not try to take the challenge”. In the end, I finally said, “OK then lets try it.” Since that night after receiving Jesus into my life, I feel that I am not alone anymore.
Wah senang sekali bisa kembali ke Nexus, tempat masa lalu kita di mana biasa nya kita datang untuk menghadiri adult service Tapi kali ini kita bukan berkunjung untuk menghadiri service…… but untuk Mission Conference. Apa tuh Mission Conference???? Conference yang tujuan nya untuk membangun kesadaran akan church planting.
Pokok nya kita enjoy banget deh. Sebelum mulai aja kita tuh merasakan hadirat Tuhan lewat praise and worship nya. Dan setelah praise and worship, ada satu pastor yang lucu yang selalu membuat kita tertawa. Namanya adalah Pastor Chua Dia menjelaskan tentang gereja di Antoich dari kisah para rasul. Bagaimana orang orang di sana meresponse panggilan mereka sebagai gereja local menjadi gereja global. Pada akhir nya kita dapat melihat bagaimana penting nya untuk memenuhi amanat agung yang telah di berikan Tuhan dalam kehidupan kita saat ini.
Setelah itu ada juga sharing dari Pastor Ben. Pastor Ben mengatakan betapa pentingnya kita mempersiapkan diri kita untuk church planting, dimana kita diharapkan menjadi individual yang benar benar valuable secara skill. Bagaimana caranya? Kita bisa mengambil les bahasa, kita bisa mencari gelar yang bisa di pakai secara international. Kita juga bisa start bisnis kecil kecilan seperti Consultancy ato social enterprise.
Charmaine Chee mengatakan betapa penting nya kita menjadi seorang global Christian, yang bisa melihat sesuatu dari a bigger perspective. Kita harus tau apa yang terjadi di dunia ini bukan hanya di mana kita tinggal. Supaya kita bisa build awareness dan bisa melihat needs untuk orang orang yang memerlukan Tuhan di negara negara lain.
Pastor Sandy Lam dengan testimony nya yang luar biasa, kita bisa melihat bagaimana Tuhan memberkati orang orang yang menjadi church planter. Kita juga dapat melihat bagaimana hidup hidup diubahkan oleh jamaahan Tuhan. Di mana para church planter menjadi seberkas sinar dan harapan yang datang ke dalam kegelapan.
Di akhir conference ini, kita juga mengadakan pelepasan untuk Iling yang sekarang sudah berangkat ke Chili untuk planting church di sana. Wah banyak sekali yang bisa kita dapat dalam mission conference ini. Tertarik buat church mission? heuheue…. Do prepare yourself Group indo sendiri sudah plan buat church mission on October. Come… come…. and join us ^-^
Roberto – Hi, ok, I’d like to share briefly about what I got from the mission conference last Thursday. To describe it in few words, personally, I think missions may seem tough, overwhelming, and almost impossible to me, yet it is simple. It can be as tough as tons of issues that we may face i.e. cultural issue, financial issue; career issue, family issue, excuses like I’m not ready and the list can go on and on. Yet, it can be as simple as just having a passionate heart towards other people and God’s word i.e. bible. I learned that to be a missionary which is our church vision, our vision as well, is a process. We should start from small, from ourselves. As much like as a baby, he/she can’t run suddenly. At first a baby needs to learn how to crawl. Then as he/she grows, he/she learn how to stand. Then as he/she further grows he/she learns how to walk, to run, or even jump. It’s a process. therefore, we can start as simple as equipping ourselves to be a strong and biblical people by e.g. having relationship with God, seek, learn and obey his words, then as we grow we can raise up in our care group, participate on different roles in the care group, as we do that we gain knowledge and experience on how to run a care group. I think those skills are essential for planting churches, since most church starts from just a few people gathering together, just like a care group. Another thing, that I learned is that, without noticing, every one of us actually is already in the process towards our vision. We are here today, building strong and biblical people, building strong and biblical church i.e. indo group in Singapore. As Indonesian, we are out here in Singapore, to build this very hope church indo group, I think we can be considered as on a mission as well. Why don’t we let’s start here, build this indo group together to be a strong and biblical church. Then, when time comes, God may use us to his purpose, to plant church in other countries. Yes, I came to understand how pastor Dinah said we are indeed missionary church. We bleed missions. We want to obey the great commission, Jesus’ last command before he went to heaven, which says “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” we want to live for that purpose, what god has commanded us. Just like the baby, I may be learning how to stand currently, some of you may learn how to crawl, and some of you may learn how to walk or run. wherever we are in the process, I just want to encourage all of us to keep moving towards our vision hand in hand, don’t be discouraged or overwhelmed by our great vision. We do want to live a purposeful live, don’t we? Thank you.
