Dear Friends,

Janice and I send you greetings from Jakarta. We trust this letter finds you folks all doing well. Your faithful prayers and financial support for the ministry here in Indonesia provide the means for us to continue our various ministries. We do appreciate you folks and we want to regularly share all the news with you.

Over the last few weeks, I have spent a major portion of my time on the island of Nias. The ministry there continues to produce good results. Pastor Formil and his folks at the Soonogeue church are working to rebuild their church building which was totally destroyed by the earthquake. Although, the construction of the church building is going slow, the church itself is growing and expanding. Recently, a man gave Pastor Formil a small piece of land on a mountain overlooking the Pasir Putih area. This is right in the area where the

folks that had to flee their homes in the Pasir Putih area of Teluk Dalam are living in tents. We have seen many of these folks from the Pasir Putih area get saved over the past few months and we are praying that God will raise up a good church among them. The new work in Gunung Sitoli is facing some growing pains, but folks are continuing to be saved. Please pray especially for Pastor Julianus as this young man struggles with leading the church in Gunung Sitoli.

The various aid projects we are involved with on Nias island have taken a good portion of my time over the past few weeks. Brother Jan Milton and Dr. Gregory Waller spent several days with me on Nias. Brother Milton's organization, Operation Renewed Hope, plans to send a medical team and also perhaps a building team to Nias in November of this year. Over the next few months I will be working on the logistics necessary to make these teams a blessing to the

folks on Nias. Also, I have spent time working on the water filtration plants we have installed on Nias island. These water filtration units are wonderful, but so far it has been difficult to get them properly installed. This last week I spent several days in Nias with Brother Jan Daniel, an Indonesian pastor, who is also trained in water filtration. He gave me wonderful hands on training in installing and working with the units. Although, the units are not yet being used as desired, I believe we will get folks trained to use these units to provide drinking water for many needy folks on Nias Island. Pray that the Lord will use the water units and the teams that will be coming from Operation Renewed Hope to be a blessing to the people on Nias Island. Also, if you would like to have a part in the various projects we are helping with in Nias, please mark your special offering, Nias Project.

Please continue to pray for our churches here in Jakarta. Pastor Raso and the folks at the Cileduk church are being pressed by fanatical elements seeking to close down their church. So far the community has not allowed the fanatical elements to destroy the church. The community leaders provided for a meeting between Pastor Raso and two of the fanatical leaders in the community. This meeting was held where the church meets. Pastor Raso fielded the complaints of the fanatical elements in the presence of the main community leaders. After agreeing to certain changes in the building, Pastor Raso was able to gain the support of the main community leaders who have allowed the church to continue using and renovating the building. The crisis is far from passed, so Pastor Raso and the folks at the Cileduk Baptist Church covet your prayers. Yet, in the mist of this, Pastor Raso and his folks have started another work in a- new area where they have had seven folks saved and present themselves for baptism.

Also, Janice and I were at Pastor Yusuf's church in Cibubur this last Sunday. Many of you have been praying for Pastor Yusuf as his church has been involved in a building project. Your prayers have been answered! We met with the church for the first time in the new building. It is something, and it is hard to believe that they have the amount of building for the money they possessed. The story is simple, God provided an engineer friend of Pastor Yusuf's who not only designed the building, but helped with the construction. The interior of the building still needs some finishing, and I trust that some of you folks will send an offering to help. Please mark your offering for the Cibubur Church.

Please continue to pray for Pastor Hadir at the Sunter Church and Pastor Munjait at the Pelumpang Church. Also remember that several of our churches here in Jakarta and in other parts of Indonesia are facing closure by fanatical elements in the community.

Due to my involvement in the Nias projects, I will not be teaching at the Bible school this semester. Lord willing, next semester I will once again be teaching in the Bible school here in Jakarta.

We now have a stateside phone number (417-429-0398) that rings our computer in Jakarta. If you call when our computer is not up, you can leave a message and we will return your call.

For your faithful prayers and financial support, we are truly thankful.

In Christ,