I’m in Jakarta today for the Asian Leadership Conference. Being here brings back a lot of memories. When just 18 I visited Jakarta—alone!—with missionary dreams.
It would take ten more years before actually making it to Asia to live, and only then as a language student, not a missionary. Even now, I am here as a part of a growing contingent of non-staff who now participate in conferences like this. Not what I might have imagined two decades ago, but just being here is enough.
After arriving last night our small Hong Kong group went for a late night Indonesian dinner. To my left sat the brother who, two years after becoming a Christian here in Jakarta, led a church planting to Indonesia’s most remote provincial capital, Jayapura.
The team of 12 traveled there by boat, a seven-days journey, and established a church on one of the world’s last anthropological frontiers. Now 80-odd disciples strong, this is just the kind of church planting we’ll need thousands more of to fulfill our "men for God from every tribe, language, people and nation" commission.
They are unsung heroes, and wonderful evidence of the grace of God.
They are unsung heroes, and wonderful evidence of the grace of God.
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