With the recent Tsunami on the island of Sulawesi, several of you have reached out to us to see how we are doing. We appreciate your concern. Here in Salatiga we are not close to where the Tsunami hit. And still being in language school, we are not involved in relief efforts. MAF is however. Our coworkers have boots on the ground there this week doing areal survey flights and bringing in aid. They are working with Ethnos 360 and Samaritan's Purse, among others, to determine what the immediate needs are and to help get them met. Yesterday they flew south from the epicenter. One Pilot observed, "Today, going south, that road is gone. There are areas that are liquefied that make no sense to me. Then we get to this village of 5,000 people, totally cut off from the rest of the world unless they hike out four days, and they’re looking at maybe a week’s worth of food left. So we may have an opportunity to do what we do best—reach isolated people. The devastation today, I felt it more. It hurt today to see that.” To date the death toll is over 1,400 people. Additionally, MAF has national staff with relatives from the area who are still missing. Please be in prayer for this country. Specifically for believing aid workers and local churches, that they would be faithful ambassadors to the hurting people in this area. 2018 has been a rough year for the country of Indonesia.
-The earth continues to shake in Lombok after the earthquake there took over 500 lives just two months ago. (MAF was able to provide some aid there as well.) -Earlier this year there were also church bombings in a city about 200 miles from us. This was the worst act of terror Indonesia has seen since 2002, and was carried out by a family with four children. You can find information about this HERE. HERE is a video put out by one of our teammates. So we ask for your prayers. For us. For Indonesian believers. For government officials. For grace. For this country and ours. “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you? Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, ‘Here we are’? Who has put wisdom in the inward parts or given understanding to the mind?" Job 38: 34-36
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Kevin
10/6/2018 06:39:06 am
Thanks for sharing this info. Praying for you all, MAF, the Indonesians, and for the gospel to be proclaimed thru the devastation.
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