11/10/11–Packed E-mail: Updates, Testimonies from Students, and TV Times and Link
Hi there!!
Hope this email finds you well!
Sorry it has been a while without an update. I just returned back to Indonesia after spending just over 2 weeks in Canada. It was a lot packed into a few weeks and a great time! I taught Book of Acts and Evangelism in World Impact Bible Institute in Toronto.. and enjoyed it thoroughly! The students there were amazing! They came back everyday with testimonies of how they had shared Jesus and prayed with their families, co-workers, people they met on the bus, in hospitals, etc.
Now I am back and today started teaching my own students here in Indonesia! This year God sent us just over 30 full time students.. and I couldn’t ask for any better ones! All of second year students continued on and are as excited as ever! And I can already see the potential in our first year students!
Coming back from Canada I am excited to get to train these new disciples even more as I teach in the school. I am also really excited about the many other areas of ministry we are planning before 2011 comes to an end!
Instead of me writing all of this update I thought I’d include 2 stories from 2 of our 2nd year students:
Tiominar Manullang:
One day when I went back from SAC, one of my neighbor waited for me because we had an appointment to pray for a friend of her in Marta Friska Hospital. When we arrived there, I saw that lady was laying on her bed and her husband sat next to her, she just finished heart surgery and I also saw another lady on the other bed (there were two patients in that room), we started talking and I started tell them about the Gospel of Jesus, then we prayed together. Praise God just few days after, they both were allowed to go home even until now I still visit my neighbor’s friend regularly to share about Jesus, while the other lady already went back to her home town, and we just know that she already spent 1 month in that hospital but after she heard the Gospel of Jesus she got healed even she went back home earlier than my neighbor’s friend. Praise God.
Florita Marpaung:
A friend of mine in boarding house was sick hepatitis (caused by liver problem), she already stayed at home for 3 days, could not go for work or anything. Then i felt compassion of God came into my heart, i said to my friend to pray together, she was a bit curious to me because she saw that I’m not kind of religious person then i said “don’t look at me, just trust Jesus the healer”. We started singing then I laid my hand on her and pray, I said “all kind of sicknesses leave from this body, by Jesus stripes you have been healed”. Tomorrow morning my friend already woke up from her bed, she looks so good and ready to work again, while before she only stayed on bed and she planned if until 1 week she could not get healed, she will come back to her village, but praise God, Jesus show us His miracle.
Also.. I made an appearance on the tv show Encounter while I was in Canada. On this program I preach for 20 minutes on something interesting God revealed to me about the older son in the prodigal son story.
You can watch it on your Grace TV channel at these times:
Friday, Nov 11th 9:00PM
Saturday, Nov 12th 8:00AM
Sunday, Nov 13th 5:00AM
On online anytime:
http://gracetelevision.net/watch/55220
Be blessed always!!
susan joy