Budi Yuwono on 12,224-foot Mount Rinjani with the active volcano’s crater lake (called “Child of the Sea” because of its blue color) in the background.
Return to Rinjani
By Budi Yuwono
Climbing For Christ member
This trip was highly anticipated...
Photo of the Week by Gary Fallesen: Mount Rinjani on the Indonesian island of Lombok is that country’s second-highest volcano, standing 12,224 feet (3,726 meters).
Climbing For Christ visited Mount Rinjani, Lombok, and the Sasak people for the first time on Mission: Indonesi...
Climbing For Christ’s first international chapter was established in 2007 in the world’s most populous Muslim nation (about 187 million people – or more than 80 percent of the country). JEJAK, an acronym for following in the footsteps of Jesus, became C4C Indonesia.
PRAY: F...
Indonesian humanitarian mission to the Philippines
By Budi Yuwono
C4C Indonesia
(Editor’s Note: Budi Yuwono’s home church of Abbalove in Jakarta, Indonesia partnered with DoctorSHARE, also known as the Physician Care Foundation, for a humanitarian relief mission to the Philippines. ...
Reunion on Rinjani
Sunrise on Rinjani. (Photo by Budi Yuwono)
Budi Yuwono and Alexander Wijaya, two Climbing For Christ Indonesia members, went to the island of Lombok in early May to climb Mount Rinjani as a follow-up to Mission: Indonesia 2012. “Very good trip,” Budi reported. &ldq...
Ace Concordia, teaching in Tacadang.
Nationality: Filipino. Occupation: Businessman. Missions with C4C: Indonesia 2012, and 15 expeditions in the Philippines from 2008-2013.
How long have you climbed? 10-plus years. Type of climbing you do: Hiking, trekking. Highlight of climbing career: Reachi...
Mission: Indonesia
Making straight paths for Him
One of our porters on Mount Rinjani was telling us about his Sasak village on the island of Lombok. When asked what the name of the village meant, he said: “Door fall on you.”
Then, in a display of modern-day texting style, he added, &l...
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Date: May 2013. Length of trip: 10 days. Team size: 4-6 members.
Purpose: To trek Mount Rinjani, an active volcano (12,224 feet/3,726 meters) on the island of Lombok. The volcano is located in a national park surrounded by Sasak villages. There are an estimated 540 Christians living among a people ...
Summit fever struck the seemingly aimless group wandering on the slopes of a large active volcano on one of Indonesia’s many islands. Never mind the late start (3 p.m.) and the abbreviated schedule (less than the minimum 3 days and 2 nights required to ascend the more than 12,000-foot/3,650-me...