Hope Brings Me Back Again
Well, I’m back, hopefully.
It’s been a long 268 days since I last wrote something in this blog. Actually I was planning to make another blog titled Rants of the King focusing on spiritual articles written in Indonesian so that churches and organizations can pick it up to use in their publications, but my lack of time had made me unable to fulfill that dream (designing a blog can take a consuming amount of time) and seeing that this blog still works perfectly fine, here I am back again. Oh, and you might want to install the Calibri font to view this blog, because I have updated this blog’s template to use that font because it has better readability. If you don’t have Microsoft Office 2007, download the font pack here and install it, okay?
First things first, let’s start with a scoop of what I’m doing at the moment, okay?
Since September 2007, I have decided to move out from my old church to another one. Now I’m ministering in Christ Mercy Center (CMC). It is located on Ruko Panji Makmur D23-D25, Jl. Panjang Jiwo 46-48 Surabaya. Be sure to pay a visit when you’re in town, our Youth Celebration Day (or maybe you’ll call it Sunday Service) is every Sunday on 10 am. Currently we are gearing our ministries more towards university students, because this church was first established by a group of alumni from Surabaya University (Ubaya). Most of our ministers and our members are from Ubaya, and we’re also planning to minister in Petra Christian University soon.
For the outside movement, we are establishing evangelistic teams to be sent to small cities and villages like Kediri, Tulungagung, Blitar and so on — basically to places where the Gospel hasn’t reached and where most people won’t want to minister. Why some people would want to minister to other countries while there are still so many places in Indonesia where the Gospel hasn’t been preached yet is beyond me. Right now due to my busy schedule I’m confined to the inside movement, tending and counselling the university students, sometimes writing articles for the church bulletin and also attending the Young Professionals community. I haven’t practiced singing for a long time and I seem to have lost some of my musical aptitude, so now I’m gearing my ministries more towards writing, mentoring and counselling.
In my personal life, I’m starting a relationship with a friend I’ve first met in 2005 but had to leave for one year during my time in Singapore. I proposed her on May, 5th 2007 and she agreed on the condition that both of our parents must agree to our relationship. By one week, my parents already gave their green light for the relationship, but her parents wanted me to wait until she graduates from her bachelor degree. It means that I roughly have to wait until August or September 2008, and as of today I have been waiting for a little more than 10 months.
I am very thankful to God for giving such a precious someone like her to my life, and I also thank Him for the strength He has given me to wait these ten months. I’m surrendering my life and my relationship in God’s hands, and I believe that if she is truly the one for me, God will open up a way for us. Now that there’s only less than half a year to wait, my hopes are so high and my faith for this relationship is increasing. She has truly been the light of my life, always helping me in the times I sometimes stumble and fall. Her spiritual maturity and love for God has made me very sure about her, but I must learn not to trust my own judgements and my own heart, but only to trust in the LORD’s judgement and time. Hopefully by the end of it all, my wishes would be the same with God’s wishes.
Oh, and before I end this, like all good marketers out there, I should give this post a shameless plug. Right now I’m working on an IT solutions company called Multi Star Electronics. If you’re in Surabaya, Indonesia and you need computers, printers, notebooks or servers, don’t hesitate to contact me and leave a message. My company is the Premier Business Partner (Master Dealer) and Authorized Service Provider of Hewlett-Packard products in Surabaya and East Indonesia, and also an IBM-Lenovo Business Partner. So if you’re looking for IT solutions that consists of HP or IBM products, you know where to contact me.
This is it for now. I’ll update this blog with more posts soon, hopefully. Please pray for me so that I can find the time to write more articles to bless others despite of my busy and jam-packed schedule.
