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This man with a painful stiffened-backbone could not get up, stand up and walk but he
was healed and walked normally. He has become the church’s member of Ps. Adri Lamajido, in
Kota Batubara, Asahan, North Sumatra, until the time of the writing of this book.

Another example is the mission trip to Ambon city when the ethnic-religious
conflicts began to cease, that was in the year of 2003. The crusade was combined with
a diaconic service by sending a significant amount of rice, noodle and dried foods and
used dresses. At the time of arrival at the airport, after entering the terminal building,
a lot of people were there under the heavily-guarded situation. Army personnels
holding guns were scattered in many parts of the building and suddenly we were faced
with the first problem i.e. how to get out from the building since there was no exit sign
as usual. The exit corridor was split into two branches, each branch was dedicated
strictly to group I (read: Moslem) and group II (read: Christian) and, of course, each
branch bore no identity sign. Every passenger should not enter ‘the wrong branch’ of
the corridor (otherwise he/she would be faced to unknown risks). Fortunately one of
the local crusade committee members was able to find and meet us. He led us
rightaway to his ‘specially-arranged’ safe vehicle for us: an army truck. Ruins,
destroyed and formerly-burned houses and emptily-left residential areas could be
seen along the road in the journey to the downtown. The crusade lasted only for 2
hours i.e. 13.00 - 15.00 WIT due to travel ban after 16.00. There was a night curfew
where no public transport, private transport, shops and markets could operate. No
movement outside the houses could be seen. The city looked like a deserted places
after 17.00 until 06.00 the next morning.
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