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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.