Grubb Mission Report – May 2021
“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15).
A Work of the Chestnut Mountain Church of Christ, Chestnut Mountain, Georgia USA
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PLEASE PASS THIS REPORT TO THOSE YOU THINK MIGHT HAVE INTEREST IN OUR WORK!
If any congregation would like for me to come and give a report of our work, please let me know so that we can schedule it.
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Finally Made It to Indonesia
On April 5th, I finally received my visa to enable me to go to Indonesia. I booked my ticket that same day in preparation for the trip. On the Thursday before the flight, I went to get my covid test. I received the negative result and made ready to head for the airport to fly, first, to Korea, then on to Jakarta. I had a good flight from Atlanta to Seoul/Incheon. It was about fourteen hours. I had a twenty-three hour layover in Korea. I spent the night in a transit hotel before worshiping on-line with brethren in New Zealand, Singapore, and Malaysia.
Had kind of a bumpy flight from Seoul to Jakarta, but arrived early. My wife had arranged an agent to guide me through the health screening, immigration, and customs. I was then turned over to the driver of the hotel where I am stayed during my five-day quarantine. I had my first covid test in the hotel with the second one the day before I was released.
The quarantine also provided my meals for the period. My wife insured that the foods provided were healthy. I passed both of my covid tests in quarantine and was released on Friday, April 16th.
I cannot over-emphasize the tremendous help my wife provided for getting me back to Indonesia. I am so grateful for all of the efforts she made on our behalf.
One of the major projects we worked on during this trip was to secure my permanent resident visa which will enable me to come and go to Indonesia. We started work on that on April 17th. Again, my wife did most of the necessary work for this. At this writing, we are still working on the visa and will hope to have this first phase completed by the middle of May.
Since coming to Indonesia, I have stayed very busy with speaking appointments via the internet as well as preaching through translator at the local congregation. For example, on May 2nd, I spoke in Melbourne, Australia at 7:30 am then 9 am at the local Indonesian congregation. Next Sunday, I will speak in Melbourne again then in southern Malaysia in the evening.
Before the end of May, I hope to present another lesson in the Indonesian language without the use of a translator.
We continue to be thankful for all of our supporters who have been able to stay with us during the covid and beyond. Without your help, this work would not be possible.
The covid has brought a lot of changes in the world, but one good thing it has done is to allow me to speak in many countries through Zoom or Google Meet.
While I am on this trip, I will also try to speak at some of the other churches in the province.
We continue to solicit your prayers on our behalf as we work on visas for me and later this year for Eta. Also, to pray for the efforts we continue to make in the Kingdom.
The current plan is to for me to return to the states on June 30th, then return to Indonesia the third week in July.
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SPEAKING SCHEDULE – 2021
May 2nd and 9th Church St./Melbourne, Australia
May 2nd Lampung
May 5th Subang Jaya Class
May 9th Skudai Bi-lingual worship
Aug. 29 Subang Jaya Bi-lingual
Worship and Bible class
October 3-6 Southside Lectures in Lubbock
November Schertz Lectures
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USEFUL WEBSITES
http://www.wvbs.org
http://www.gbntv.org
http://www.ibtministries.org
http://www.oabs.org
http://ChineseBibleSchool.org
apologeticspress.org/OL_Chinese.aspx
Grubb Mission Reports can be read here:
http://grubbmissionwork.blogspot.com
https://www.fourseas-chinese.org/
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– John and Eta Grubb
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