Time seems to be a recurring narrative of my life in Jakarta. This week making 3 months. But time is a gift that God gives. This week God's timing was truly a blessing. These last few weeks at church we have been discussing what it looks like to be on mission for God in the places that we are at. I had been thinking about it a lot. I have my students that not all of them know Christ and others that I interact with, but don't yet speak fluent Bahasa to be able to carry a conversation. So I had been asking that God would bring somebody in my path that I could build a relationship with that does not know Him. So let me tell you how this all fits in with God's timing. Friday was one of my friends birthdays, a school basketball game, and worship night at church. Many options and only one of me. So I decided to go to the party. On the way to the party a few of the teachers needed to pick up snacks. We stopped and while there they eagerly wanted to find canned pumpkin (not easy to find by the way when it is pushed back behind the fruit cocktail) anyway while up there I saw somebody that I met when I first moved here. As we were leaving I realized that they had way to much to get back to their apartment so I carried it back with them. When we got to the apartments I realized that they lived right across the hall from my friend's apartment. They told me to come over afterward, which I did and was able to hang out and begin to build that relationship with them. All this because of God's timing in it. I am thankful for the fact we needed to look for pumpkin filling.
So I apologize no exciting stories of trips in the jungle, the smogcrete jungle will have to do for now.
As always thank you for praying, God is stretching me in ways that I never knew I needed to be stretched.
Things I miss from home:
Corn Mazes (especially Bose Family farm)
Waterfall near Sentul City |
Bowling over Holiday |
LG after pool party and Pineapple upside down cake |