God helps us in all our troubles, so that we are able to help others who have all kinds of troubles, using the same help that we ourselves have received. 2 Cor 1:4 GNT

We need your urgent help to resource Christian pastors bringing God’s Word to Indonesia. In recent times, this fourth largest nation on earth has endured major disasters: right now, there is still ongoing need that you can help our fellow Christians to meet.   

This was brought home to me just before last Christmas, when we received an urgent prayer request from Gunar Sahari of Lifewords Indonesia. He told us that a tsunami had hit the islands of Java and Sumatra. Worryingly, there was no news of our friend, and Lifewords volunteer, Pastor Niga, who leads a church in Pandeglang, Java, or of his family.    

We later learnt that he and his family were safe although, tragically, over 500 people did lose their lives in the disaster, including some of his church community. Many other people lost their homes and livelihoods.    

But Pastor Niga did not rest. He went to Lifewords’ Jakarta Training Center for booklets. Then, he went right back in to the hard place so he and his church could share the Bible’s words of hope and compassion with his devastated community.   

Please will you help us support people like Pastor Niga to be life words in the hard places?    

For as little as £7.50 – the cost of perhaps three cups of coffee - you could help provide Pastor Niga and other pastors with Bible resources – such as Picking up the Pieces and Who Cares About Me? – which offer the Bible’s words of hope for people in crisis. 

“We are so sorry that it happened,” Pastor Niga said, “but this disaster is an opportunity for us to show Jesus’ love and compassion to our neighbours whose lives have been affected, as ours have.”    

Please pray for Pastor Niga and all those still affected by the tsunami.