Jet and Matt were baptized last Sunday, 13/02/2011, among with other 3 other GFI children. It was a humbling and a moving experience for us, we are now making our commitment to bring up our children as God’s children publicly. It was also a good reminder for me on what baptism really (in this case [...]

Pastor CEG announced some of the changes that will happen in Pelita this year. First of, Pelita will no longer be called Pelita – but instead it’s (slowly) going to be called Gereja FOCUS Indonesia (or Indonesian?) or in English – FOCUS Indonesian Church. This name is more aligned to the other congregation names such [...]

Our church has gone through numerous changes during my 12 years here. Looking back, I was almost always oppose to those changes, sometimes very strongly.

Since I have been in bible studies for a long time now (12 years in Australia + 2-3 years in Indonesia), so I thought perhaps I should start blogging on bible study related issues (we don’t seem to talk about bible study much?). I am starting with this one, is finishing on time for a [...]

This afternoon we came back from FOCUS Church Camp 2010. The topic this year was on Suffering and Glory. We were looking at Romans 8 for our 4 bible studies during the camp. And there were also 4 talks on different topics regarding Suffering and Glory. A few people have asked me how do I [...]