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crossing the country of Brunei Darussalam twice. It means that NJE Team had to enter
and exit Brunei in 4 different cities (towns) and pass Brunei through 2 different areas.
In the shuttle trips Miri-Lawas-Miri each passport already got 8 stamps not taking into
accounts the stamps obtained in Entikong and Serian.
The crusades in Miri lasted without any special occasion except that many of
the attendants looked stressed, sad and rather desperate. But they seeked God
seriously and wanted to get His touching hungrily. In that year the oil business
slumped down due to significantly-decreased global oil prices. And the city of Miri
was more or less the oil city with so many oil-based businesses. Many people had lost
oil-related businesses, oil-based company jobs and all oil-related revenues. This
included the pastor who hosted NJE Team in Miri, conducted the crusade and brought
NJE Team to Lawas as well. Before repenting and becoming a pastor he had worked as
a company man of one of local oil-based companies. God called His servants
sometime in their dark time, desperate conditions, catastrophic situations and also
accidents. Praise to the Lord!
The distinct situation happened in Lawas where NJE Team served a
congregation in a praying center on a hilly area of a local mountain. Many people
came to and went from this place everyday. In average they spent several days in this
praying center. Meetings were conducted in the morning and evening, with prayings
in-between including taking lunch and dinner. The air was fresh in the afternoon but
cold at the night and morning. The crusades were done in the evenings. In this place
people were conditioned to forget all his worldly life and problems and directed to
‘meet and be touched by’ God. NJE Team had basically to serve in day-and-night
meetings. People listened to words of God seriously, very focused, praised the Lord
fervently and prayed deeply. Since the place was isolated and rather far from the
nearest town it created a confined condition detached from daily city life. Nothing
could be done except the already-set agenda. No change in general situation and
condition could happen, except some new people appeared and some old people
disappeared from the congregation. Nevertheless it was really one of some good and
rare opportunities to be alone with God ‘face-to-face’ without any worldly
disturbance and worriness. In such a case, praise and thank to God for the special
opportunity to be in Lawas. Hallelujah!
The trip was closed by the implementation of the last crusade in the church of
Borneo Evangelisting Ministry (BEM) in a small village on the hill near Serian which
had a similar situation and condition to the praying center in Lawas. The place was on
the top of the hill, very serene, calm and cold as well, opposite to the other hill which
belongs to Indonesia. The border lies in the valley in between the above mentioned
hills. And the separating distance was not large that if one screams from the village
on top of the hill in Malaysia his counterpart in the village on the opposite hill in