Ronnie is a guy from a small village in a regency that is known to have a very strong influence of Islam. He grew up as a Muslim though he was also practicing local indigenous belief. He was raised as a rice farmer. Ronnie really enjoys growing plants and other crops. Every weekend he likes…
1. Seeking Allah Finding Jesus – Nabeel Qureshi Nabeel Qureshi gives his own testimony of how he went from devout Muslim to a follower of Jesus. Through his college friend, David, Nabeel began to search truth and critically evaluate Jesus’ life, death and resurrection. He then looked at Islam and the Qur’an with the same…
Nina grew up in a Muslim family and spent most her life devoted to her religious duties as a Muslim. One day she made a friend who was a follower of Jesus. This Christian friend shared her faith with Nina and encouraged her to start reading the Bible. Nina began to read the Bible on…
One team in a large city in Indonesia, is focused on training Indonesians how to share the gospel. They set up trainings with churches and groups of believers and teach them how to start spiritual conversations that lead to the gospel with Muslims. Many Indonesian Christians do not know how to share their faith, especially…
Darrel’s father gave his life to Christ several years before his birth. As a Balinese Hindu the fallout from this decision proved to be heavy on him and his family. Continuing prayers and rituals for a family’s ancestors and gods is considered one of the highest duties of a Balinese person. Now that his father…
Edna is a 35 year old Muslim woman, a mom of 2. She and her husband divorced a few years ago, and Edna has since remarried. Since she remarried, she felt great shame because her community (people in her village) were shaming her for failing her first marriage. Her kids live with her former husband…
Danielle is a Muslim woman who works at the same tourism school in Bali as Penny. Penny had led a Hindu coworker, Angie, to Christ the week before she met Danielle (click to read previous story). One day Penny decided to invite Danielle to a morning prayer gathering. During the prayer gathering, Danielle started to…
Penny is an Indonesian believer who recently moved to Bali for a new job. She works at a tourism school in Bali. Before Penny started this new job, she had been praying that God would help her see that her job is a platform given by Him to expand His Kingdom. She had also prayed…
Our Indonesian sister, Yenny, tells a story of meeting a 14 year old boy named Aldi during the COVID19 pandemic. Aldi is in 8th grade and he is one of 5 children. The past two weeks, I have seen him sell meatballs by the door of the Indomaret convenience store. At first he greeted me…
Justin and Susan moved to Indonesia in February to join a church-planting team. They started language school right away and began to look for a house they could move into. God quickly provided a house not too far from their teammates. After language class in the mornings, they would usually go to a store to…