A RAINBOW OF HOPE AND PROMISE

THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST

Mission Indonesia

Over 150,000 souls perished in Indonesia without hope or the promise of salvation. Mission Indonesia will bring that hope and promise to the 230,000,000 souls who live in Indonesia. We are focusing on the major cities while going were ever the Lord leads us. Even to the high mountains of Central Sulawesi as pictured above where we are planting village congregations along Trans-Sulawesi Highway. Three (3) new congregations in the last year.

MEET THE BRETHREN IN CENTRAL SULAWESI

Bro. Bantu leading worship. He was in our first class of 1998 but could not return because of family obligations.

He has carried on preaching the gospel on his own since then. He travels four hours by motorcycle over very high mountain range to preach the gospel in Central Sulawesi twice a month. We hope to make him a leader of a mission team later this year.

Bro. Leo was in the class of 2002. He and bro. Bantu will be returning to Batam in 2006 to complete their training. They minister to three other congregations in So. Sulawesi besides the three in C. Sulawesi.

	The family pictured are new members of the church. I helped them purchase land for a church building for only $500.00. This is a normal village home bare wood walls, thatch roof, dirt floor, and a dining room and kitchen combined (local stove).

MEET THE BRETHREN IN DURI SUMATRA

Ministers/Missionaries

Hery Sinaga

Jannes Banjarnahor

This congregation was established on 21 January 2004 with the baptism of 21 souls into the body of Christ. Since then they have added eight more to their numbers. Only one man who moved away to find work has left the group. They are now building a new building with the help of Bro. Bobby Hulett who live in Duri and others.

Batam Ministers
Winston Bolt - Herbin Simanjuntak - Overseeing the young Missionaries.

Brother Hery Sinaga has recently baptized seven other souls about 15 miles from Duri and started a house church there. The congregation in Batam visits them on a regular basis to oversee the work and encourage these two fine missionaries. This work began with Mike and Kim Walker teaching four high school students with WBS. The young men have gone away to school but this is the result of the Walkers faithfulness.

MEET THE CONGREGATIONS IN CENTRAL JAVA

This village congregation outside of Solo, C. Java was started in Jan 2000 and two others followed in 2001. There have been over 100 baptisms since then, with their own leadership and buildings already in place.


Teaching	Confession

Baptizing	Congregation at Prowejowo

The congregation in Solo started in Oct 2003 and has planted three other congregations. They are now seeking land on which to build a building. Six members of the congregation are attending the Batam Bible College. They have a WBS program and will be starting a radio program shortly. This congregation will be the seed bed for planting churches in C. Java.

THE TOOLS THAT MAKE IT HAPPEN

Batam church of Christ	Batam Bible College

THE STUDENTS AND TEACHERS AND THE ENTIRE BODY OF CHRIST

Winston Bolt & Ed Wharton

As you have seen the Lord has blessed our efforts. Year 2005 will have twenty-two students attending the school. We hope to send out a third mission team to Sulawesi when the students graduate in July. The following year we want to send antoher missionteam to the island of Borneso as the church doesn't exist there in a formal way. We invite you to share in the blessings that the Lord bestows upon us when we follow His way.

Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

I am the vine; your are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit;... This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

Thank you Lord

For all that you give

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

Let us be yoked together while we toil in the fields of harvest in the service of the Lord.

Thank You and God Bless - Winston Bolt - Mission Indonesia