Welcome to the blog for the Travis Avenue Indonesia Mission Trip -- June 8-19, 2012!
Our team will be traveling to Sungai Galing, a village in the province of West Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. Our assignment is to support the local village church by beginning construction of a new church building, conducting Backyard Bible Clubs for the children of the village, and assisting in evening worship services. It is quite a jam-packed itinerary!
Team members are: Kirk Wooldridge (leader), Todd Butler, Mike Lee, and Chris Ratcliff. Our Indonesian sponsor, Ronny Serworwora and his wife, Lena, are meeting us in Jakarta, as will our other Indonesian friends, Christian and Anne Kartawijaya and their sons, Timothy and Thaddeus.
This is a new partnership between the Travis Avenue church and the folks in Sungai Galing. The hope is that we will be the first of many teams from Travis and other U.S. churches to journey to Indonesia to support the work, and that Sungai Galing will be at the center of a broader reaching educational and outreach effort.
We ask that those readers who are people of prayer will pray for our team and for the people of Sungai Galing. We certainly need it and will appreciate it so much! Keep checking this blog and we'll keep you up to date as to what we're doing and more importantly, what God is doing.
Just wanted to say hello! I just got back from a 2 week trip to SG with a team based out of Memphis, TN to do medical clinics for the people in that village as well as others up and down the river. I enjoyed reading about the work you guys accomplished while you were over there! The church looks great now! It has walls and a roof and the pastor told us that they will eventually do tile on the floors and a nicer finish to the walls (right now it's just concrete blocks). It's really awesome to see the Lord at work there and to know He is using many people from the US to accomplish it! Are you guys planning on going back anytime soon?
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