Kelela is the Jerusalem for all members of the Evangelical Church of Indonesia (GIDI), where the first baptism of GIDI members happened on 12 February 1962. Here and on this date my mother and my father were baptized among 7 other persons. — Sem Karoba. My father and my mother were the only family baptized.Continue reading “Kelela, West Papua Highlands, where GIDI Started”
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To Evangelise Indonesia, Make Indonesia a Christian Country
This dream of making Indonesia become a Christian Majority Country was spoken by Rev. Emeritus Ki’marek Karoba Tawy a few minutes before he passed away. Background History of “8plus1” There were 8 men and 1 woman were first baptised as members of the Evangelical Church of West Irian (EVWI) at Kelela Village, the highlands ofContinue reading “To Evangelise Indonesia, Make Indonesia a Christian Country”
Hello world! Hello New Guinea! Hello Melanesia!
There is a dream, that came into the dreamworld in June 2014, when considering how to survive from this ever-changing world, that has changed almost everything about myself, and about my world. My identity as a “Melanesian” person is now changed into “a Christian”, “a West Papuan”, “a Papua New Guinean”, “a Solomon Islander”, “aContinue reading “Hello world! Hello New Guinea! Hello Melanesia!”
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