A Season of Harvest and Blessing Jakarta

We here at ICCJ are thrilled to be in this season of Harvest and Blessing in which God has allowed us to participate with Him! Firstly, several dozen precious people received the gift of eternal life in paradise with our Creator and have joined God's family in many Churches throughout Metro Jakarta at JakJazz!

Also, the Financial Seminar was a success! Many testimonies have been submitted from attendees about how the teaching challenged their perspective and will change lives as God's Word is put into practice. The one testifimony that blows my mind is from a man who did not understand the difference between tithes and offerings. He has been giving all of his tithes to charities outside of his Church. Amazing (and sad)! Imagine having been giving big 5 figures every year (he is well to do) and to still be under a curse for not understanding and therefore not obeying God's Word! I wonder how many others there are like that?... People who feed the children and support televangelists with BIG dollars but are still living their lives from a position outside of God's blessing! I thank God that this man will now be enforcing God's blessings in his life by giving his whole tithe to the "storehouse" so that there will be "food" in God's "house" (Malachi 3... read it if you don't know it). In plain language, that means that we must give our tithe (the 1st 10% of our income) to the one Church in which we are planted, covered and from which we receive a steady and purposeful diet of God's Word in order to be blessed.

May God continue to add to His Kingdom and may we who are in His Kingdom continue to improve and be strengthened in every way... all for His glory! Thank you friends for your prayer support over these last couple of weeks. We so appreciate the CARE (Home Group) Pastors and Lay Leadership of ICCJ who are busy following up with those who have received eternal life throughout the last few weeks! Our Pastoral and Staff teams are fairly tired from the demanding schedule at the moment and we would appreciate your further prayer coverage as we take this time to recover and interact with our families during the blessed Christmas season.