Back to Nias!

Hello everyone!

Our week in Medan was great. The pastor's conference was presented by New Covenant Ministry International [NCMI] at a theological school/church . We actually got to sleep at the school [in the classrooms!] which made for an interesting week. Very hot! And many frantic wake-ups in the middle of the night for cochroach alerts! ... I will definitely be asking God the purpose of those creatures when I get to heaven. They don't die! Anyway, the week was filled everyday with speakers from NCMI from 9a-5p. These guys are amazing. They're pumped to see unity in Indonesia among the churches and are so dedicated to really help the church structure. We were pumped to see more boolays too! :) They are mostly from New Zealand and Oz, but a few South Africans too. We had the opportunity to really spend time with them, too, which was awesome. Many dinners and even a badminton tournament. They love badminton here! But that was heaps of fun.

We were responsible all week to clean-up after each day, which was actually quite a task. Not to clean so much [although Indonesians have a very different attitude toward trash, cleanliness, etc.], but to persuade them to allow us to serve them! Indonesian culture is very hostess-oriented, so the church family didn't understand why we wanted to clean their facility. They wanted to clean it for us!

Yesterday, me and a few others had to fly to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in order to get a new 30-day visa back into Indonesia. We flew out at 8 pm and flew back to Medan at 8 am. The night in the airport was very interesting :) We looked like fools trying to sleep. All the airport seats were taken by other passengers trying to sleep, so we ended up 'sleeping' in The Coffee Bean. We got a few weird stares. Typical missionaries :) haha.

So we're off tonight, driving back to Nias. A 10 hour haul! Woo! I am stoked to get back to our friends though :) We only have two and half weeks once we get back! Time is tickin'... and God still has lots in store!

Well hope all is well back on the homefront!

<3 Jade