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