Paul Soetopo and Harry Holmquist and his Team from Logan Lake, BC., left last night for Indonesia. This is the November 07 trip, and will be for three weeks duration. Among many things that will be happening, are;

1. Putting a roof on Orleana's church building. She is the gifted song leader for our Indonesia crusades.
2. Golding crusade meetings in several cities.
3. Teaching English in a  number of elementary schools.
4. Visiting and encouraging Church Planters in as many districts as possible.

Please pray for this group, especially for the next couple of weeks.

The church building project at Makale, Sulawesi Island, has been completed! It was dedicated last Sunday. This will house the brand new congregation of converts for our meetings in 2005. Pictures to follow soon. Pastor Ribca is delighted. Your prayers and gifts made this possible.

220,000,000 people live in Indonesia! Several thousand islands make up the group. It is a land of modern cities, grass huts, and breath-taking scenery!

We work with Alpha & Omega Ministries, - 900 indigenous churches founded by Luke Soetopo and members of his family. Our work there is Church Planting.

This is one of our church plants. The building cost $6,000 U.S. We buy a sow pig for village pastors. They produce 10 – 15 piglets yearly, which sell at six months for $200 apiece. This will provide for pastor & family until the next liter arrives. The pig forages for its own food and returns home each night, (pigs are smart!) This enables the Pastor to work full time in the ministry.

"What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" Mark 6:38. One soul is worth more than all earth’s riches!

The highlites of our mission to Indonesia were meetings held on Sulawesi Island. The cities of Mamasa & Makale, high in the mountains, were long over-due for the Gospel message.

In Mamasa city, a thousand people attended each night. Hundreds thronged the altars in each meeting. I cannot remember ever being in more exciting meetings.

Makale City, remote & picturesque. This beautiful 1,000 seat traditional auditorium was erected on pilings in a little lake for the meetings. Behind it is the Government House. 1,200 – 1,500 came to each service, with hundreds responding to the altar calls every night. Anyone who puts their life in jeopardy by accepting Jesus, has to be serious! But hundreds did it gladly.

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Our Corn crop has been harvested! About 80 tons of corn is already in storage! It will help alleviate hunger for hundreds of families whose crops were wiped out by the floods!

Two little rooms left standing while the rest of the house is rubble! We drove through village after village with houses similarly destroyed by the worst floods in Romania’s history!

Thanks to you, we were able to finance the building of a concrete warehouse capable of housing three containers of relief supplies.

And - Thanks to your generosity, tens of thousands of hungry, hurting people have already been clothed & fed. Right now a new container is being distributed to Romania’s forgotten, disaster-ridden people!

"I was a soldier & prisoner of war in the 2nd World War," said this man. "I survived that, but this flooding is far worse!" With severe winter conditions coming, and a house damaged beyond repair, he, like tens of thousands of others is facing a very bleak future.

The Director of Hospitals in Ploiesti City pleads with us to bring more supplies to their impoverished hospitals.

Director’s of a Mental Home plead with us to help them deal with grim poverty in their situation.

"172 patients in a home designed for 100, - 60 year old washing machine & dryer which often break down!"

The Director of Social Welfare in the province of Prahovah pleads with us to help them meet huge needs!

The Director of Welfare in the Focsani area told us in tears of heart-breaking conditions in her flood-stricken province.

The desperate thing about Romania is that their plight is forgotten by the rest of the world, - and the State is too impoverished to do anything significant about the enormous need! The hopeless grief of the many flood-victims we met and tried to help was deeply disturbing.

The Flood waters have receded, but hunger, hurt and pain have set in with a vengeance! Jesus told us that each one of these hurting people is really Himself – in disguise. Dare we deny food, water, clothing, - or the Good News?

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