The Blood Donor Event 2013 of HKBP Depok I

Happy Sunday, Guys!! I'm thankful to see You again!! :)

Today is an historical day of HKBP Depok I because we've just made the first blood donor event of HKBP Depok I!! Actually, the event was held as a pre event of Easter celebration 2013 of Naposo HKBP Depok I. The Easter celebration will be held on Sunday, 5 May 2013.

The Registration Counter of Blood Donor

There were many people who were enthusiasm to join the blood donor event. There were about a hundred people whom were been listed as the potential donors. At the end, today there were fifty people who registered theirself to be a donor, but unfortunately there were only forty three people whom were permitted to be a donor. Then the seven others just got a blood check up because their health condition was not possible to donate blood.

The Fresh Bloods

However, we as the blood donor event organizer is grateful for this moment. We've just made something valuable!! May the bloods of the donors will be beneficial for other people who need those.

The Blood Donor Event Organizer

With love,

Rain

The Easter 2013 of RHKBP Depok I at Getsemani Foundation

Dear Guys,

Happy Sunday and nice to greet You again! Thank God for Your blessings to me, my beloved people, and this blog readers! :)

Yesterday I celebrated Easter 2013 of Remaja HKBP (RHKBP) Depok I on Saturday, 6 April 2013 at Getsemani foundation, Bekasi. Getsemani foundation is a foundation which has special service for stress, drug & narcotic addiction, detoxification, and elderly treatment.

Getsemani Foundation Signage

I and several my friends as youth joined with our teenager friends to the Easter. Actually we were doing a spiritual sevice visitation, but we made it exclusively in Easter moment.

We went from our church to Getsemani foundation at 12.45. Then we arrived at the foundation at about 15.00. When we arrived, some superintendents of the foundation welcomed us gladly. They were hospitable. Then they showed us a devotions room to pray and worship.

We stepped several rungs, found a corridor, and walked together to the devotions room. We met our friends, the patients (I prefer to call them as "fighters" because they are struggling to get a better life), then we greeted them and shaked their hands. They smiled to us happily. They were very glad to meet us. We could see that there was a cheerfulness in their eyes.

Then we prepared ourself to have a devotions, to pray and worship our God, Jesus Christ. We sang some spiritual songs, read Bible, heeded preachment from our pastor, and shared some experiences each other. We really enjoyed those things. We could know each other, especially between the visitors and the fighters.

There are many fighters who want to be healed and to get a better life. Some of them are drug & narcotic addicts and the others are stress patients. The most dominant patient is stress patients (fighters).

The stress fighters have their own problem. There are fighters who have economy problem, social relationship problem, business problem, and other various problems. Basicly, they are normal, but they are broken mentally. They are not ready yet to face and fix their own problem. They just need time to accept their life reality well.

Some fighters shared their own problem to me. There is a fighter who was a rich entrepreneur of rubber latex and cement. His business was a family business. His company had existed for thirty (3) years approximately. When his business was insolvent, he got his dropped mentality. He became an emotional father. He became often scolded his wife, children, and family members brutally. He was uncontrolled badly. So, his family decided to bring him to Getsemani foundation for a while until he can accept his life reality and get normal emotion.

Then I was surprised that the fighter who was a rich entrepreneur told me that he has been permitted by doctor to come back home actually, but unfortunately his family still needs time to accept his presence at home. He has been for three (3) months at the foundation when I met him and he told me that hopefully he will come back home in December 2013. I wish he may get his hope comes true.

Paulus Aritonang, Me, & Arnold
(Me and Two Friendly Fighters)

There are other unique stories of the fighters, but in this occasion I just want to share some essences of their feeling and experience to us. We may get a reflection of our life reality. Everybody may get theirself dropped mentally, even get crazy because of our problem. Everybody always wants to be happy, but we can just through our life, pray, face our problems, and get joyful for everything we have.

It feels easy to say "joyful", but the point is not about our ability, strength, and goodness, but it's all about surrendering to God. We may fall, we may slumped, but we have to SURVIVE & REVIVE because we are God's great creatures! We have intelligence, we have strength, we have bravery, we have faith, and the most important is we have JESUS CHRIST, A GOD WHO IS BIGGER THAN OUR PROBLEM!

 Left to right: Fery, Androw, Christin,
Two Foundation Superintendents, Jefri, Shara, and Me

So let's be grateful for God's grace in our life! Be thankful for our destiny! Be joyful for our life! God is good all the time, Guys! :)

Warm regards,

Rain

The Jakarta Flood

Hi, Guys!

How's life? I wish You are good.

By the way, long time to not write an article. In this occasion, I want to share some photos that I made on Friday, 18 January 2013. Those are about flood in Jakarta.

Yeah, the flood had become a well-known thing for Jakarta, because almost every five (5) years Jakarta was attacked by flood. It was a miserable thing for sure.

So hereby I attach the photos of the miserable thing. Actually, there were some locations in Jakarta which were "visited" by the flood, but the following photos were taken in Kampung Melayu, East Jakarta.

  

The Floody Day

The Floody Road Become Swimming Pool

Keep Clean on The Floody Day

The Floody "Motorcycle Wash"

The Floody Freight Service

The Incidental Job

The Reinforcements

The Logistic Car

The Spry Soldiers

As the photos above, we may know and feel the effects of flood. Because of it, there were many people couldn't do their job, traffic jam, paralyzed human activities, disease, and even death.

It was happened not only for once or twice, but several times in almost every five (5) years. Some people call it as "Banjir Tahunan". It was really miserable. Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia which should be safe from "Banjir Tahunan".

We can prevent it by wasting rubbish to the trash can or where the rubbish should be wasted. We can also save our environment by keeping sewer clean and swift. In other hand, the government may rejuvenate and build infrastructures & facilities for flood prevention.

So let's start to prevent flood by keeping ourself clean. Then, let's ENJOY JAKARTA!

Best regards,

Rain