More thoughts from Indonesia
June 2016
Indonesia
12:15
John shares two additional reflections from his time in Indonesia (see Video Blog No. 34). In the first, he engages the question: “How often has the form of our message of Jesus to the world become an obstacle?” John also shares an insight from John 13, which inspired him to perform an intimate act of service at the Indonesia National Church Conference.
“It will cost tears and blood.”
May 2016
Indonesia
12:37
On site in Indonesia, John summarizes the rich, yet sacrificial 80-year history of God at work in this nation of more than 13,000 islands. It contains the largest population of Muslims in the world, despite having outgrown the U.S. Alliance in its number of churches. In reflecting on this legacy, John reminds us to see the fruit of our work as lasting and multi-generational.
November 2020
Indonesia
In an effort to help their families combat the potential of future economic difficulties sparked by the COVID pandemic, members of the Ecclesia Alliance Fellowship Church of Indonesia came together to till the land and form a farmers’ cooperative. CAMA Services has come alongside this congregation to "strengthen their hands" as they provide their families and their community with food security well into the future.
December 2016
Indonesia
08:58
“When I was leaving, my father said, ‘How can you go there when your own family needs you?’ But God had to be first, even above my family,” says Judy Gaskins, an Alliance international worker for nearly 45 years. For more of her story, see “Judy’s Kids” in the January/February 2017 issue of Alliance Life magazine.
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