Unstructured Day 4

It was a beautiful and glorious day in Jakarta. The consultants were free to work on their final documents today and if those were accounted for, it was PLAY TIME! Many went shopping and some just hung out and relaxed. Most consultants have eaten enough in the last weeks to sustain for a month, but there are a few who can continue to take advantage of the endless opportunities to munch away. We really will be at least 5 pounds “fuller” when we arrive home!

Dena and Michael went to the Jakarta Revival meeting, while the bulk of us stayed in to work and had our worship in the team meeting room. Worship in Jakarta has a totally different “flavor” than it does in our usual places of praise. Without failure, the ritualistic prayer of the Muslim culture is played over loudspeakers at about the same time we gather to pray. So tonight we decided to go out on the balcony and sing our praises to the whole city…it was incredible. If you can imagine 10 fully grown adult praising in their best “shower voices”, with arms outstretched and huge smiles, then you can imagine us!

To wrap up the day’s activities we ordered take out food, put our feet up and dug our heels into the deliverables once again. Tomorrow is final presentation day , which means we are wrapping up with our clients. It is sad in many ways that we have to say good bye to the friends that we have made, but we have lifetime friendships to look forward to. God provides a sturdy foundation on which bonds can form in ways that we couldn’t have imagined. Praise the Lord!

Verity