Susan Hoover

Hi!!

First of all I’d like to let all of you know that I am ok. Although there was a quite a big earthquake in Sumatra, no damage was done to our city and I was in the air when I happened so I didn’t even get to experience the tremors. Please continue to pray for the people in Padang, the situation is quite bad there.. I would like to do something for them if possible.

But I am ok.. actually more than Ok! So much more…!

Today is registration day for our second year of the bible college… how exciting! We are expecting about 20+ full time students and after just announcing our part time night classes yesterday we already received 40 registered students for that!!

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a local pastor congratulates a member for joining the school

on the road!! (I think we’d been travelling since 4 am that morning.)

Worshipping God during one of the services

we take time to have some fun at the newly done ‘Love Walk’ tourist attraction.

The people rejoicing and praising God in one of the services

The girls open up our house for the night (during our village visit)

Ribka (our youngest graduated student) shares her testimony in a high school

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Thanks to you our last Youth Revolution event was a HUGE success!!

Some of those involved said it was a life changing moment when they stood on the stage and saw the crowd of Muslim people raising their hands calling our to Jesus to come into their life!!!

Once again… we have made history!! The light of the Gospel has shone into the darkness!!!

When I first went to the city of Kisaran the leaders there told me it was impossible to do an event to preach the gospel there.. ‘it has never been done!’.. ‘this is a Muslim area!’.. ‘you can’t event get the permissions.’..

But like Jesus said.. ‘this is impossible with man.. but ALL things are POSSIBLE with God!”

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What does the subject line mean? Well. The word “lemah” means “weak”. And the word “kuat” means “strong”. It’s how God works in our lives…

These last couple of weeks I have been very busy with pretty intense travelling. So sometimes I have felt weak. There was a one day when I was especially weak and had not been able to eat for two days. I had promised to travel up to my city that night to hand out food and visit a poor, Muslim neighborhood. I didn’t feel like it.. but I really wanted to do it. So I went. I was barely dragging my poor, tired body along. No idea how I could carry bags of rice and food to the houses. I even told one of my  teamates that they would have to do the talking. I didn’t feel like i was up to it at all..  (more…)