by Elijah Challenge | Apr 20, 2013 | Asia, Indonesia, Reports, Southeast Asia
Dancing in Sanggau, 1978 Dancing in Biang & Menjaya, 1979 Dancing in Batu Ampar, 1980-1987 Download our book Dancing on the edge of the Earth In early 1979 we relocated about three hours by boat upstream from Sanggau to preach the gospel in an unreached village...
by Elijah Challenge | Apr 19, 2013 | Asia, Indonesia, Reports, Southeast Asia
Batu Ampar1980 Ameng was a sixteen-year-old boy who peddled around Batu Ampar on his bicycle selling bananas. His friend A Kiun had brought him to our meeting held in the little front room of our house where we shared the gospel of Jesus Christ.1980: the first...
by Elijah Challenge | Apr 19, 2013 | Asia, Indonesia, Reports, Southeast Asia
Akong first heard the gospel of Jesus Christ when we arrived in the unreached village of Biang in Borneo’s interior in early 1979. Biang was a neglected village of about 300 families with no access to electricity, telephone communication, or roads to the...
by Elijah Challenge | Apr 19, 2013 | Asia, Indonesia, Reports, Southeast Asia
West Kalimantan, IndonesiaApril 2013 Batu Ampar, 1980: A Li is the little girl on the left doing her assignment on the front bench. She was learning to read and write in a class Lucille taught in our home for the village children, some of whom were illiterate or...
by Elijah Challenge | Apr 18, 2013 | Asia, Indonesia, Reports, Southeast Asia
Rusman & Yola serve with the Pentecostal Church of IndonesiaYola at rightIn the late 1990s two Bible school students, Rusman and Yola, were went by their denomination to serve as interns in our church in Batu Ampar. There they served under Senior Pastor Abakko....
by Elijah Challenge | Apr 18, 2013 | Asia, Indonesia, Reports, Southeast Asia
West Kalimantan, IndonesiaAmoy was the oldest daughter of a family in Batu Ampar which owned a small business selling gold as well as appliances. There she came to know the Lord, and later began serving Him and the kingdom of God. Eventually she became one of our...
