Sister Bakso and Brother Abak (1987)
From Chapter 22 of Dancing on the Edge of the Earth
“HOUSE-MOVING Faith”
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On Wednesday, October 12, 2025 while in Jakarta, Indonesia we had a reunion with Brother A Bak and his wife Sister Bakso, whom we had led to the Lord in 1980 while we were missionaries in Indonesian Borneo. When we were expelled by the Indonesian government in 1987, we left the ministry in their hands. Brother A Bak became the pastor of the church and led the ministry after our departure.
Shortly before we left Indonesia in 1987, the Lord used A Bak’s wife Sister Bakso in a most extraordinary way to demonstrate His divine judgement working through His extraordinary power—in a way reminiscent of the miracle the Lord performed through the apostle Paul in Acts 13. While ministering in Paphos Paul had rebuked Elymas the sorcerer who was trying to turn the Roman proconsul, with whom Paul was sharing the gospel, from the faith. Filled with the Holy Spirit, Paul said to him, “You are going to be blind…!” The sorcerer immediately went blind—an astonishing miracle leading the proconsul to believe in Jesus.
In a similar way, Sister Bakso spoke to an Indonesian Muslim man who was stealing from them with apparent impunity because they were Chinese. The theft involved A Bak’s ice factory—which stood in close proximity to the Muslim man’s house built on stilts right over the water’s edge. Brother A Bak had already gone to the police, but being Chinese he was denied justice.
Just like the apostle Paul, Sister Bakso looked at the Indonesian Muslim man’s house and said, “may his house collapse [into the sea].”
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If you would like to know what happened after that, just click on: Chapter 22 of Dancing on the Edge of the Earth: “HOUSE-MOVING Faith”.
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Bakso and A Bak in the middle between us on November 12, 2025
(A Bak had suffered from a stroke over ten years ago)
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Dancing on the Edge of the Earth relates the extraordinary missionary adventures of Brother Bill in remote unreached regions of Indonesian Borneo. It is published by LifeRich Publishing (an imprint of Reader’s Digest) in both hardcover and softcover. If you would like to order copies, click on https://www.liferichpublishing.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/867926-dancing-on-the-edge-of-the-earth.
Dancing on the Edge of the Earth is also available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Edge-Earth-Spirit-Borneo/dp/1489752331/.
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