Stunned to meet a servant of God who told us we baptized her 41 years ago as a little village girl in Indonesia...

In February 2020 we were in the province of West Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo training full-time servants of God and students at the the Bible School of the Pentecostal Church of Indonesia (known as “Gereja Pantekosta di Indonesia”). This denomination has 1,200 churches throughout the province of West Kalimantan.

A woman approached us during a lunch break and introduced herself to us. We were stunned to hear what she shared. At the very first unreached village we had reached for the gospel 41 years ago at the beginning of our missionary work in Indonesia, we had led her to the Lord—when she was but a little girl. It was in the remote village of Biang located on the banks of the Kapuas River in the interior of West Kalimantan. Her name was A Hiang. She’s circled in the 1979 photo below. And below that we are baptizing a group of people including children in a tributary feeding into the Kapuas River. That’s when A Hiang was baptized.

New believers in the newly-reached village of Biang (1979)
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Baptizing the first believers in Biang (1979)

Back to the present….

Below is recent photo of A Hiang and her husband Pastor Samuel.

And below is the congregation in West Kalimantan now led by A Hiang and Samuel at a New Year’s celebration…
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The Parable of the Seed

Mark 4:26 He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. 27 Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. 28 All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.

More photos from our time in Indonesia 41 years ago are posted at Dancing on the Edge of the Earth: 1979 in Biang & Menjaya.