Chosen One Ministries

I think I am getting used to being in Netherlands. It was only one year ago we were here for 3 months, and now we will stay here for other 3 months. I got the feeling that this is already my home town even though I just knew a little about it. I got the feeling of going home because here I meet with my family, a great family that I got to know not more than 5 years ago. I feel at home here. I can open the fridge to grab food anytime I want without worrying that I might not be polite. I can sleep as long as I want, I may just stay at my room whole day. But the thing that I like most is being together with them. Having dinner together with whole family, riding a car and wandering around in small cities, going to the market and grabing kibbeling of loempia (heel lekker!!). The thing that I don't like here is TIME GOES VERY FAST!!! It has been already one month of my stay here in Netherlands, and I felt it was just like yesterday when we arrived at Schipol. When the time to get back to...

You might say that I was a bit of jelaous with people who claimed themself as Batak. Well, even though sometimes I had a bumpy joke about them, especially about their strong character and an exceptional behavior, I must admit that many of them have strong points, which are modern, smart, tough, independent, strong will, straight ahead, and determined. Most of those points don't exist among Javanese, not to mention myself. I don't want to play racist, but the point is they are great people. I got two Batak friends who amazed me and whose both names are Binsar. One is 27 years old, a post graduate of semantic theology from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, who is now still doing his doctoral study also in theology in the same university. I got to know him when we were together having a Dutch course in the Netherlands Embassy. He was prominent with his dutch, even though we were just doing the first grade. I never got the idea that he was already a master of theology from Vrije Univ...

I don't know what to say about this, because it seemed that God has ordained everything to make this run smoothly. At least I had to admit this wasn't in my plan. Long before we set up a company, I had a couple of meetings with another architect to discuss about the drawing of the hospital and the orphanage. Well, I still could remember what kind of look the architect gave me when I explained him about this project. He was thinking that I was kidding, totally wasn't serious, having a stupid dream in the mid of the day!! Building a hospital in Wamena? Who's gonna think about that, at least among normal people? He just discovered that this project was almost impossible, but he didn't dare to say that we were a crazy couple. The idea itself was crazy, if you don't want to say it as ridiculous. The initial drawing that I made sounded very ambititious, a very big building on a limited land. We want to have a hospital and also an orphanage next to each other. The buil...

In November 2007 before we departed to The Netherlands, we paid another visit to Wamena. This time we went together with Mrs.Kaisiepo (the owner of the land) and also with Paula, Miriam's youngest sister.   We visited again the land which will be the location of a hospital and an orphanage. We met with a family who is faithfuly taking care of the land, went to an agrarian office to measure the land, and also made a documentation about the land. This visit gave us more confidence and stronger faith that God is about to do what He had promised. If God is on us, who is againts us? Also in this trip we got so many revelations from God. Suddenly came up many people who also wanted to give their contribution to this ministry. There was a possibility that we might purchase a bigger land just next to it, the head of local district declared his side upon us and promised to help in anyway he could, and also a bussines man promised to give stones, sand, and other material for the buildi...