Friday, 13th Aug. 2009
We climb aboard our beautiful Maloli once again for our trip to Rote. We are all so attached to this boat now, our faithful, though sometimes a little smelly, boat that we had doubted and hated before. The crew on the boat was also incredibly nice to us since they sacrificed their rooms for us to use and slept on floors around the boat. Even the captain gave up his room for the pastoral team to use. We get a little delayed and the waves were a bit too choppy for us to sail upon so we were held up at the port until the waves died down. So we sailed again on the beautiful sea thinking of the memories we’ve made on this life changing trip. We sit and and take an imaginary stroll down Reminiscence Blvd. and share and laugh at what’s happened. Getting stranded, seeing the most astounding miracles, and random silly things that happened to each other. We’re running late since we were held up at the port and we finally figure that once we arrive in Rote, it will be about 1 and a half hours before the crusade starts. Stress and panic arouse but we believe in the name of Jesus that everything will go as planned and everything will work by the time we need to start. We are running and yelling and unloading as fast as we probably can once we get to the field because we only have so much time before we need to start. But, after doing this for the past 3 weeks, we are all trained professionals and we finish the job in the record breaking fastest time of only 1 hour. We then have dinner at the Bupati’s office and meet him and his workers. Then we immediately get back to our field and get ready to start our last crusade of Summer Mission and end with the biggest bang we can make! Tonight our crusade was great and everything was working but we never got a good response from the people. They seemed very closed even though we pushed them to open up and worship. But we did our job and many people were still blessed. Victor Larson, who also happens to be our only American, and Cynthia Taidy Ong from Toronto gave testimonies tonight. To sum up tonight’s crusade, we had 1,500 people attend 10 were healed from sickness, and 200 received Jesus. Crusades are now officially done. Back to the ship and off to Kupang!
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