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The crusades lasted extraordinarily well in a temporary wooden structure
without walls and having its roof made of rumbia with a bamboo-structure stage in
the front. While the lodging house was an openly-elevated structure with 4-side
bamboo mesh walls of half-open and the rumbia roof too. The bathroom and WC was
in open air and its roof was the sky itself, its wall was 4-side of sheets of zinc with the
bathtub from an ex oil drum cut in half. Local foods consisted of the roasted deer and
kangaroo meats, the boiled cassava-like roots, potato-like tubers and beans, lentils
and nuts as well. The crusades were done in the morning (09.00 – 12.00) and evening
(17.00 – 20.00) for 3 consecutive days. The sermons were given in English and
performed by Ev Andreas Hartanto and the dual, Ps Jeffry Rengkung (in Indonesian)
translated into English by Ev Benny Gozali. Altar calls were basically attended by full
crowds. The attendants had to come by small boats, canoes and also ‘on foot’ and
they had to cross and break through the same lake-and-weed area overcoming many
obstacles in the journey and risking their lifes too in order to join the crusades.
Wow…..strikingly amazing! Some of them had crossed the swampy area and walked
through the up-to-chest water. What a militant Christian people! Thank God for the
chance of meeting and serving these people!