We arrived in Batam Indonesie on Monday afternoon. Batam is a short ferrie ride from Singapore. The island of Batam is roughly the same size as Singapore. We have a lovely guide that took us straight through customs and onto the ferrie. He did his masters degree in hotel management & is used to organise groups of 4000 people! So, I guess our group of 18 isn’t a match.The people are wonderfull and SO organised. Charlie thinks that this is the most organised church in the world and I agree with him!

We spend Monday to get over the worst of our jet lag and then on Tuesday we started with the meetings. Tuesday evening we had a business men and church leaders banquet and meeting. People flew in to Batam from all over South East Asia. Todd preached on financial break through and then prayed for EVERY single person for increase and the blessing of the Lord. Jesus told him to do it twice, so he started all over again! The expectation & faith in the room was electrifying.

From today (Wednesday), we will be having 5 meetings a day: Two in the morning, 2 in the afternoon and 1 in the evening. The church we are ministring at has roughly 7000 members and we expect roughly 6000 people at the evening meetings (only because they can’t fit any more into the building.) They have made arrangements for the most sick people to be in the front near the stage - so guess where we’re going to be??

Both me and Karin are doing well. Please pray for our health and spiritual well being. The ministry is demanding and it is easy to drop your guard, but we are loving every moment of it!!

Love from Indonesia.

Pieter and Karin