| December 22, 2005 |
| My Arizona Experience - A Short Reading For Fellow Witnesses |
Last Saturday, December 17th, 2005, our Indonesian book study group went to Kingman, Arizona, to preach the good news to the Indonesian people there. It was a two-hour drive with eight people packed in our expedition truck. Another car was the Intrieri's, four people and a baby was in that car.
Why Kingman? Well, brother John has some information from friends down there that there's quite a quantity of Indonesian people that might be interested on the Bible, and there's one brother there that is actually conducting a Bible study with an Indonesian man. Being asked for a friendly favor, the thirteen of us came to assist them for the day. We were all ready with our literatures, tracts, presentations, and zealous. We went from restaurant to restaurant, apartment to apartment, tying to meet and talk to our fellow Indonesians. Some responded positively, some didn't. But no matter how they responded, we were all enjoying the ministry and having a great time.
Here's a cool story.
Remember earlier when I wrote that there's a brother conducting a Bible study with an Indonesian man? Apparently, the brother was having a hard time communicating with his Bible student, saying that the Indonesian man was not so understandable and that sort of became the primary obstacle in expressing themselves to one another. So he requested if we all could come by to the brother's place to meet this Indonesian Man. And so we went, planning to talk as much as we can to the Indonesian man about the Bible in our own mother tongue, reaching his heart.
There I was sitting across him, a tall old Chinese-Indonesian man, who looked awfully familiar. I asked him where does he live in Jakarta, and surprisingly his home is actually in my congregation's preaching territory back home. Well guess what.. Yes, I've met him before!
I've preached to him once, sometimes eight years ago, when I went door to door with the Circuit Overseer that time. We were in his house for a good 30 minutes, and the CO did all the talking, of course. I remember this so well because it was my first time out with a CO, and shocking, he remembered me too! Can you believe that?! We've met 8 years ago in our hometown, and here we are again somewhere in the middle of Kingman, a small city with population 35.000, in Arizona, United States. How cool is that?!
Well, I think this experience tells us that our preaching work is spreading to the ends of the world. No matter where they are, there's always somebody knocking at their door, or talking to them while they're walking their dog at a park, or giving them a tract at their lunch break at work, or hey, calling them to share a thought from the Bible on the phone.
---------- "And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come." Matthew 24:14 ---------- Labels: stories of my life |
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| 4 Comments: |
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Keren banget Dri experiencenya...!
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WOW.. i bet you were kinda excited when you thought you knew him. I would my self! So carry on.. what's the plan? who's coming to give him bible study?
Ohh...im so excited for you! Dunno why! :-/ hehehe
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bisa aja ngarangnya lo ah....
gaya dah... AmericaniZed girl....
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Nice pic on your website. Nice experience doing our Father's will. Nice things and I hope you feel nice. I have rice and spice to go out in my price of rent, outside. Love the good thoughts. Jehovah save us. Well, I'll see you in the future. Bye. Andres Pereyda. Bye.
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