Still on the list
We were in South Sulawesi discussing unreached people when a local worker brought up a group in West Sulawesi. We looked them up. “Still on the list,” we acknowledged.
In fact, three of every 10 people groups remain on that unreached people groups (UPG) list.
We have...
Sulawesi jungles: lush, green, and shrouded in darkness. But God dwells even in the darkness, we are told in 1 Kings 8:12. (Photo by Gary Fallesen)
Fear God, nothing less
An invitation to GO on Mission: Indonesia 2020
By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ
Our brother wa...
Mission: Indonesia 2019, Part 1
By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ
Friday, May 3
Team C4C: Gary, Budi and Jordan in Central Sulawesi.
It was a 35-hour Friday as Jordan and I traveled backward across 11 time zones from Jakarta, Indonesia to Climbing For Christ&...
Gunung Sojol, the highest peak on Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. (Photo by Gary Fallesen)
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Aid for those in need of salt and light
Devastation in Palu, Central Sulawesi, including a destroyed mosque, is seen in this aerial photo from the Reuters news agency.
Natural disasters in the country with the world’s largest Muslim population continue to be a wakeup call to the churc...
Prepare ye the way
The timing was divine: We were on a spiritual retreat when, first, an email arrived from Finishing the Task. It talked about getting the list of unengaged unreached people groups (UUPGs) remaining in the world from 964 to zero. This was followed by a phone call from the same asso...
Hell in Indonesia’s high places
By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ
“Joe,” not his real name, thanked us for coming. He asked us to send people to work with him. He is lonely.
He expressed his happiness to have brothers in Christ visit the pl...
Monday, June 11
Our little team with an Indonesian worker: What’s wrong with this picture? There are only four laborers. Many more are needed!
After we learned that Americans wouldn’t be welcomed among the u...
Jesus weeps over hundreds of millions of lost Indonesians
We wept — just like our Savior, Jesus Christ. In John, chapter 11, we read about the death of Jesus’s good friend, Lazarus. He has been buried in a tomb for four days when Jesus arrives. “Jesus wept,” it says in John ...