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In  short,  NJE  Annual  Gathering  (Mukernas)  began  to  proceed  more  formally
            which became the extended activity of the meet-and-pray in the beginning of every
            year. In average the number of the attendants in an annual gathering was circa 40-50
            persons who came from some provinces and cities in Indonesia. At its peak NJE had
            ever conducted the gathering with more than 70 participants and implemented the
            program of more than 15 crusades in that year. Nevertheless NJE was permitted by
            God to sail through ‘a big storm with big shakings and bumpings’ in the second period.
            But Lord Jesus was with NJE, His protection and being with NJE made possible to get
            through and away from the devastating storm, without a significant damage. All glory
            to Father God, Lord Jesus and Holy Spirit forever and ever!

            2.  c. The Third Period:
            Year 2014 – 2019 (3rd 6-year period).

            The Domestic Crusades.
            In this period Lord Jesus had made a change of evangelical paradigm again, the big
            strikes of the massive crusades were to be left and the more concentrated-focused
            small crusades were felt strongly and strongly in replacement of the massive ones  and
            that  this  condition  were  moving  towards  the  stage  of  consolidation.  The  stage  of
            repentace in each crusade had changed into the stage of purification i.e. making more
            mature and holy, in other words, from ’quantity-oriented harvest’ becoming ‘quality-
            oriented harvest’. The change appeared to us as the pattern of preparation of ‘the
            bride of Jesus’who needed to be brought into maturity, purified (holy) and conditioned
            to be ready-and-deserving for the coming of the bridegroom. Shortly, the bride could
            join the bridegroom when he comes (back).
                  In many crusades afterwards the number of healings had significantly dropped
            and  shifted  to  miracles  of  annointings  and  fillings  of  Holy  Spirit.  The  praying-and-
            handlaying in the altar calls which had formerly resulted in healings now yielded in
            Holy Spirit fillings and annointings. Deliverances and freeing from devilish bondages or
            the bindings of evil spirits emerged to take place more often.
                  The latest period of pre-pandemic era was also indicated by the acceleration of
            the crusades implementation significantly i.e. from a large scale, massive and inertially-
            slow becoming a small scale, light (compact) and lightly-fast. Another characteristics
            was the implementation frequency i.e. number of crusades per month (year) from 1
            (10-11) times becoming 2-3 (20-33) times. NJE team changed from the Big Team (8-12
            persons) to Small Team (2-4 persons). Most of the crusades, instead of conducted on
            fields, yards and city squares, at that time, were performed in church’s buildings. The
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