Susan Hoover

Happy (a little late) Easter to all of you!  Hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend remembering all that our beautiful Jesus has done for us!  5 am this morning I woke up in an earthquake. It lasted quite long and at 7.2 was quite strong as well. It hit Aceh, the province above us. We are all fine.

A few updates ago I told you of a plan we had to do a large event last weekend in the city of Tanjung Pinang. Unfortunately it was not possible to do it then, so it was postponed. (please keep it in your prayers for the future).  I didn’t feel like I could wait months for the next event… there are so many people out there that haven’t heard the gospel yet!! So I sat down with my youth team to pray and discuss together and we decided on another Muslim city about an hour away. Just a few days later I visited that city and received a very excited welcome from the Pastors there. We immediately started the set up work and I am very excited to announce that our next gospel event will be taking place in just over 2 weeks! On April 23-24! (more…)

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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