by Robert Winter

What a day the Lord gave us. The night before ended with an exciting meeting between Roy K., President of Lipo (one of the largest companies, several billion dollars in revenues, in Indonesia—Roy is one of the top 5 execs.) and several of our team members. Bottom-line: Roy expressed a strong interest in working together to help plant and build Christ-centered businesses in places like Aceh. We were all truly amazed at the speed in how interest led to initial action—the Lord is working away.

Then we had another meeting to talk about building hundreds of homes in the Aceh area to support the community and the businesses. The objective was to understand what it would cost in construction. They expressed an interest in building schools. Some $30M is earmarked from a ‘country-led contribution’ to build 300 schools throughout Indonesia. Don Cook of our team shared that the pre-fab design could be used to build schools as well as homes. With further discussion, it became clear that they had an interest in building a proto-type in the Jakarta area as soon as possible. Again, too good to be true. Sounds like the Lord working again.

Much needs to be done, but there is definite groundwork being laid. Thanks for all the prayers.

On a personal note, I am truly amazed at the some 55 nations here. It seems that in every meeting that I’m in, or someone from our group, involves nations from several countries. For example, I was in a meeting of six yesterday with Christians from Kuwait, Australia, South Africa and Indonesia. There is, as well, a truly gracious spirit about the people here. It is eye opening.

Well, we are winding down the event of the Transform World conference and moving into meeting to set the stage for our departure on Saturday to Aceh. We have a meeting with some 50 Indonesian individuals (not including the some 8-10 of us on Friday night). We have talked to many people about Aceh—it is clear the area has suffered tremendously. Continue your prayers.

Tuhan berkati - God bless - Robert Winter