Susan Hoover

After a wonderful time in Canada I have returned back to Indonesia to begin my 9^th year here (yes.. the 9^th!!) Everyone keeps saying I’m almost at a decade… it’s true! I don’t know how it happened so fast. But every year has been amazing.. and there is not a doubt in my mind this year will be as well… I can even imagine it being greater than any other!

It was great to see family and friends in North America (and all of you that I was able to meet). I am always amazed at how God supplies so many people who have a hear t to be a part of what we are doing here in Indonesia! Thank you!!

There are so many things planned for the next few months it is crazy!! Thankful that there is never a dull moment or nothing to do here.. There is a nation to be saved and God is providing lots of ways to do that!!

Right now I am at my school office to meet with a group of my students who will leave tomorrow to do a tour for a week around Sumatra with me! How exciting!! Please pray for us as we travel around the next week… and for even more of those who are called by God to come and join us at the school!

Here is a link of me being a guest on the talk show Encounter while I was in Canada. Enjoy more stories of some of the things I experienced in Indonesia this past year:

http://gracetelevision.net/watch/51177

Going on with Him,
Susan Joy

2,000 years ago Jesus decided to entrust the gospel to 11 disciples. The task He gave them was impossibly too big for a human mind to think of: to make disciples of all people in the whole world. He believed that 11 people full of his power and ready to share the good news wherever they went was enough start this…. And He was right. We are all believers today because Jesus left 11 apostles to change the world.

And so.. as my 11 second year students were ready to graduate and be sent out God reminded me not to think of them as being too small… because 11 graduates allowing God’s grace and limitless power (just as it was 2,000 years ago) work through them will have the same astonishing and incredible results!

I believe the workers we are training up in this Bible College are world changers… as I look on these 11 graduates I now no longer see them as my students. But I see them as co-labourers in the gospel work. Each one of them is involved in ministry and has found God’s calling on their life.. even some will be sent out as missionaries to start up new work in unreached areas!

God actually spoke to me during our school prayer day last month and reminded me that these were not my disciples, but His. And it was not me sending them out, but Him. Just as He sent out disciples to do great things 2,000 years ago… He also sends out these students!

I am incredibly excited for our graduates as they step out into all the things God has prepared for them. But also I am sad to see them go.. I will miss them very much as I’ve grown very close to them.

Pouring everything I am and have into these students on a daily basis has not always been easy. But seeing their lives change and knowing that they will bring a change to this nation that I never could, makes it so worthwhile.

I remember asking you to pray for some of them when they first started school 2 years ago.. like Mariani, who sold her possessions to come. God took care of her and she was able to stay the full two years. She has become quite a saleswoman and plans to use that to help her get into areas to do missions! Or do you remember Wiwin?  She came from a Muslim family that locked her in a room for two weeks so she couldn’t attend the school. Not only did she graduate, but her family was there to attend the service!

Thank you for your prayers and supports!! These “heroes” I wrote about two years ago… are now the new leaders of Indonesia!!

Below are some quotes of the students and pictures of our graduation last week… enjoy!

And…..
in case you haven’t heard…
I’m coming back to Canada… in 2 days!! (it really snuck up on me!)

If you’d like to meet me or speak at your church, etc. just let me know!

My schedule looks like this:

June 30^th – July 5^th: Rockford, Michigan Area
July 3^rd – preaching @ Bridgeway Community Church

July 6^th – July 11^th: St. Joseph’s Island Area
July 10^th – preaching @ Bruce Mines’s Weslyn Church

July 12^th- July 25^th: St. Catharines/Toronto Area
July 17^th – preaching @ Toronto International Celebration Church
July 24^th – visiting @ Niagara Celebration Church

July 26^th – Aug 1^st: Knoxville, NB Area

Very excited to visit and share all that God has been doing here that can never fit in these emails..!! haha..

Blessings overflowing and abounding in Christ,
Susan Joy

Yong An:

“It has been a tremendous year for me studying at SAC!… Yeah. I love this SAC! … You changed my life for sure.”

Samuel:

“SAC membuatku meninggalkan masa lalu dan berlari-lari pada panggilanNya.”

SAC (Celebration Bible College) made me leave my past and run towards His calling.

Felix:

“Pertama tama saya sangat bersyukur bisa sekolah di sac. Saya percaya bahwasanya sekolah ini dapat memberikan terobosan di dalam negeri ini. Banyak hal yang mengubahkan kehidupan saya.”

First of all I am so thankful I could go to school in SAC. I believe that this school will bring a breakthrough in this nation. So many things changed my life.

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