DEAR CHURCH

Dear Church,
We are grateful with what the Lord has done with us in Bandung for these past three years, a lot of struggles but now we see the seed that planted is growing up. Although in the very beginning is very hard to break the ground but now we see something happen. It’s still a long way journey to fulfill God’s will in Bandung or even Indonesia my beloved country.
Our journey is not smooth or even far from smooth; it’s very rough and tough. The Lord not put aside our mountains but we must climb them. If the Lord is not giving us the strength, we will not survive. Many times the temptations are just to give up and just “working again” and “playing church”, just look after the middle class and high class church members, so I can provide enough finance for my family. Must I compromise the vision that the Lord put in our heart and mind, only because we don’t have enough money? When I shared to my senior brothers, they just share and give advice to me, to just let go the vision. These are what they said,” It’s too hard to minister to the subcultures, unchurched and unreached people if you don’t have any financial back up. So if the finances not there, it’s better for you just to let go the vision because you have wife and children to look after. Just let go and join our church and bind into our vision.”
Our ministry now is more to reach the unbelievers and making disciples and then send them back as God’s church. We are moving from house to house even most of the times from one café to another café or public places. We don’t have any place to come together even a house (our house or so called house is very small to come together), but we don’t want to give up. We are learning that Jesus never allowed circumstances hold HIS ministry. He is teaching in the mountain, from a boat, on the shore, on the synagogue, on a house, etc.
Doing business is a very new thing for us, even to become a writer for me now. My family is starting a catering business, because now we must look after my mother in law (she’s a widow) and also our sister in law and our nephew. It’s a burden for us, very heavy because our finance is not enough even if they are not with us. But we can’t just neglect them, how we can love others if our family members neglected. Sometimes our business stuck because lack of finance, you know sometimes the business also not running well. I’m praising the Lord because our first son, Philip, 10 years old (July 21st) really such a blessing for us. In the moment of hardships, he is still full of joy and very creative. He can’t go to mall or children playground like usually he did in the past with us but he never complain. Now we are playing football or badminton on the park. Sometimes we must fasting because we have nothing but our son never complain, he said,” Mom …Dad…don’t worry, Philip is very happy can pray and fasting together, the Lord will provide for us.” There’s a time that we are praying and fasting for three days only have faith that the Lord will deliver us. On the third days, the Lord moves people to be a channel of blessing for us.
I’m praising the Lord that after these past 19 years in ministry, I’m just finding out three years ago that the Lord wants me to start writing and I can do it by HIS grace. In one side I’m very happy that the publishers like my writings and publish them. On the other hand, some of them never paid my fee or if they paid me it will took a very long time. They only want to publish my writings about “the sweet things”, like the love of God, forgiveness, the heart of God, family values, etc. But if I talk about evangelism, outreach, holiness, the people of God as the church, etc….everything that’s “hard”. They don’t want to publish them. My dream that one day, I can publish them by myself or there’s a publisher who bind to our vision.
Our disciples most of them are young people, they are still on their last grade in university or just start their career, so we also can’t depend on them. Actually they need also our support. We are praying for some breakthrough, to start a community business. Because most of the disciples are musicians and people who like or involve arts. We are starting to make Christian t-shirts (or more to Christian values) and Event Organizer. Please pray along with us, we have heart and compassion to reach and bless the city. Now we are also trying to share to some people that want or may interest to invest to our small community business.
Our urgent pray for next month is a house. Our house rental will be over this year (next month - July), and we still don’t know where to go. On the end of the year the Lord give us another son, George Alexander Broos, a cute baby boy. My wife got a high blood pressure, so she can’t deliver the baby normally and must have a cesar operation/surgery. To cut the story short, the budget for delivery the baby was big because my wife blood pressure unstable, so she must stay for a week in the hospital and the baby stay for ten days. Normally it cost only 8 million Rupiahs but because of the circumstances I must paid those 20 million Rupiahs. The miracle things happen was when the doctor said that we didn’t have to pay her. It reduced the cost until we are only paid 16 million Rupiahs to the hospital. The problem arises now because we are using our savings that we put aside for our house rental. The finance is still not there yet, we want to move to my parents home (both of them past away, my step dad died last year) but my step sister don’t allow us to move in. Humanly speaking there’s fear and doubt. How and where to go? FIRSTLY DON’T MISTAKE US. WE DON’T ASK YOUR MONEY, BUT PLEASE PRAY ALONGSIDE US AS A FAMILY OF GOD. If we must go through this valley and climb the mountain, I pray that we have the strength, joy and thanksgiving in HIM.
In our journey with the Lord we are focus on doing what the Lord wants us to do, sometimes we feel lonely and misunderstood by others. I feel a need of a band of brothers that stand together to encourage to one another.
Thanks for hearing us and pray along side with us. It’s very encouraging to know that I have a family that care and pray with us in every side in the world.
Greetings,
Dave, Novie, Philip and Georgie
The Broos Family