{"id":1557,"date":"2014-02-26T22:58:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T14:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2014-02-26T23:42:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T15:42:47","slug":"medan-indonesia-mission-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/?p=1557","title":{"rendered":"Medan, Indonesia Mission Report Feb 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medan, Indonesia Mission Report<\/p>\n<p>Feb 19-22<\/p>\n<p>There were about 40 participants that came for the 2 and a half days module on the book of Revelation.\u00a0 About 3 quarters of the students are pursuing their Bachelor of Theology, and the rest Master of Ministry.\u00a0 Quite a number of them are sons and daughters of those who were once taught by us under Asia Seminary for Ministry (under Faith @work Fellowship. https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/).\u00a0 It is a great privilege to teach the church leaders and their sons and daughters.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third time I taught them and they rushed to take photo with me during the last day.\u00a0 About 90 % of them are Charistmatics.\u00a0 They found it hard to trust the main line denominations there because of their Liberal Theology.\u00a0 It took them a while to realize that all our lecturers in ASM are Born Again Christian or Bible believing believers.\u00a0 Now the trust and bond has been built and they are eager to learn from us.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Haposan (the local coordinator) shared that the leaders are learning to become more Biblical.\u00a0 They are also using what they have learnt in their ministry and are enjoying favorable feedback.\u00a0 I had deliberately assigned them to use the skill learnt to teach others (refering to the November module).\u00a0 It was a great joy to hear two of the sisters shared their teaching experience.\u00a0 One of them did her assignment on the book of Ruth.\u00a0 She shared how the book was so relevant to the group of young mothers in her Bible Study group.<\/p>\n<p>Group photo Feb 2014.<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"bordered\" style=\"float: left ; margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n<p>The class was disrupted a few times because of power failure.\u00a0 One generator in Medan city was damaged.\u00a0 It was difficult to conduct the class without the power as all my teaching material is in power point.\u00a0 Thank God for at the crucial moment electricity was restored and I managed to cover the entire book of Revelation.<\/p>\n<p>As the participants get to know me better, they asked more questions and shared about their ministries.\u00a0 ASM has the opportunity to impact these leaders and would be leaders to be more biblical in their doctrine and effective in their service for Christ.\u00a0 They enjoy learning effective and practical skills that will equip them for the ministry the Lord laid on them.\u00a0 They are eager to have us back and we are most glad to be their partners in their ministries.<\/p>\n<p>Report by Yap Beng Shin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were about 40 participants that came for the 2 and a half days module on the book of Revelation.\u00a0 About 3 quarters of the students are pursuing their Bachelor of Theology, and the rest Master of Ministry.\u00a0 Quite a number of them are sons and daughters of those who were once taught by us under Asia Seminary for Ministry (under Faith @work Fellowship. https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/).\u00a0 It is a great privilege to teach the church leaders and their sons and daughters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.hemanbags.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}