07 August 2010
Posted in Church News - Medan

To him who by means of his power working in us is able to do so much more than we can ever ask for, or even think of…(Ephesian 3:20)

Damianus was a student in a private university in Medan. He also worked as a barber to support his studies. His activities consumed all of his time from morning till night.

At work, he had a friend named Ari Zai (a brother in the East Single Ministry). Damianus knew Ari for 2 years and Ari often invited him to come to the church meetings, but he always rejected it because his time was full. Then Ari stopped inviting him, he thought Damianus was not interested in God.

After a while Ari offered him to study the Bible and thought Damianus would reject it as usual. But on the contrary, Damianus responded well and started to study the Bible at 10 p.m after work.

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27 July 2010
Posted in Church News - Surabaya

During her ten years being a disciple, Mariyani have experienced many changes in her life, have grown her spirituality and keeps fired up to serve God. Coming from another religion background, she got constant challenges from her family. But she never stop believing in Jesus.

But the most challenging time came in April this year, after coming back from the Jakarta Church Conference. Mariyani’s mother, who was usually in fit condition, started to complain that she could not see clearly. They went to ophthalmologists, neurologists, went through tests, from usual tests to special tests such as MRI, but nothing changed. In fact, her condition was getting worse, until one day, she could not see at all, even in several days, she got paralyzed, could hardly breathe and lost her appetite. The condition was getting worse, the money spent was getting higher until finally they were told that Mariyani’s mother got Devic’s Disease, a rare condition caused by too high immunity that it consumes the body cells. This rare disease can only be treated in a clinic in USA and Singapore, without full guarantee that it can be cured.

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06 July 2010
Posted in Church News - Semarang

Six months being disciples of Jesus have brought many changes in the life of this couple, Adi & Yuli, both in their personal and marriage life. They have been blessed with a daughter named Jasmine who is 9 years old.

Adi & Yuli came from different religious background when they got married: Adi was a Christian, and Yuli was a non-Christian. One day, Yuli received a marriage seminar invitation held by GKDI Semarang. Yuli came alone because Adi was reluctant to come. When Adi was invited to a church service, he rejected it, because he thought that coming to a new community environment and adapting with new group of people had no point at all.

But on one Sunday, Adi came, reluctantly. And so did the next Sunday and then the next Sundays. Both Adi and Yuli finally study the Bible, with a humble heart and got fired-up. To their surprise, they suddenly realized that so many positive changes have happened in their life. The emotional Adi then became a gentle and caring person and had stopped doing his sins. Both of them prayed and had quite times together since then. Even their parents could see the changes in their marriage. Now they had the mission of Christ in their heart and they were united in Jesus Christ through the baptism and were reconciled as it is written in 2 Corinthians 5:17-18.

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06 July 2010
Posted in Church News - Solo

A couple of weeks ago the Solo Church had baptized an always smiling young girl. Her name was Nia, she was 16. God blessed her with many talents. She had beautiful voice and skills in playing 21 traditional music instruments. Everyone saw Nia as a cheerful, friendly, lovable girl, but in fact, she hid a great pain in her heart.

Nia was born in a dysfunction family. Her father was a Karawitan (a kind of Java traditional music) teacher, who visited one place to another to teach the Karawitan. Whenever he stayed in one place temporarily, he had an affair with a woman. Until one day, Nia heard that one of the women whom his father having affair with, was pregnant. From that day on, Nia decided to hate his father for betraying her mom and family. Time went by, but Nia still kept her anger and hatred toward her father in her heart. She never showed it to anyone, but she promised to hate him forever.

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