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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
Selaen jalan jalan melihat daerah turis disana, saya sempat mampir di gereja Katholik yang di downtown juga sorenya lewat night food market yang tersohor di jalan Donganmen.
Luar biasa orang-orang Beijing ini. Kalajengking, kelabang, jangkrik dan ular juga dimakan. Mungkin ini bisa membuat orang lebih berani mengambil resiko kalau lagi bisnis ... :-)
di foto yang lain, saya, Aad dan Emmy Wilianto, Eunice (putri Awi & Emmy) dan Nathan (dibalik stroller) dan Awi (yang motret kita-kita) sedang jalan jalan sore (jjs) di danau Shichahai yang ada di hutong (eh bener ngga ya Emmy?... :-)
Enjoy the pictures,
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Friday, November 9, 2007
My wife and I had the opportunity to visit our friends Awi and Emmy Wilianto in Beijing this week. The family was very kind to invite us to stay with them during our visit and took us to know Beijing and touristic places including of course the Great Wall.
The last time we met was 14 years ago when we worked together in the ministry at GKKD Medan. So we were so happy to be able to meet again and fellowship a lot during this visit. I had the chance to sing (representing Raffa of course) and preached at Beijing GANG (God Anointed New Generation) Church, an energic church of Indonesian students while JM ministered at GISI Beijing. It was really great service.
Thanks to Awi and Emmy. God bless you all.
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Monday, October 29, 2007
Last Sunday, I was invited to preach at Pastor Rittar "Rio" Sibarani's church in Kebayoran Baru. My wife JM also shared and sang a song which was awesome. In the picture I stood with Pastor Rio and his wife, Renata Simanjuntak, the songwriter who wrote the well-known song "Slamatkan Indonesia".
It was a very good service. God moved with wisdom and anointing to help me preaching on Blessing & Wealth message which is needed by the church these days.
Thank you for inviting me Pastor Rio. God bless you and your family.
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Monday, October 22, 2007
Kemarin kami merayakan Ulang Tahun gereja kami GBI Cikini Raya yang ke-5. So much fun celebrating God's love dengan Praise & Worship service dilayani oleh Harry Idol, Bobby OW dan juga tentunya Julita Manik.
Kelihatan sekali hati yang mengasihi Tuhan dan talenta yang begitu luar biasa ada pada diri mereka. Dan yang paling berkesan adalah kerendahan hati mereka sekalipun telah dipakai Tuhan begitu luar biasa di mana-mana.
Thank you ya Bobby dan Harry. Gob bless
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Untuk temen-temen yang dari ITB mungkin ingat Bhay dari Tambang '86. Kemarin Sabtu kami dateng ke kebaktian pertunangan atau orang sono bilang Martupol he he he.. di HKBP Sunter. Akhirnya si Bhay mengakhiri masa bujangan nya yang lama pisan. Bhay ini sepupu saya dari pihak ibu.
Bhay atau nama lengkapnay Bhayangkara Silaen akan menikah tanggal 3 September ini dengan Christine Sitorus yang kebetulan juga masih sepupu jauh kami.
Congrats untuk pasangan yang begitu serasi, ganteng, cantik dan begitu mengashi Tuhan Yesus... :-)
God Bless
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Friends, I just received this afternoon a couple pictures of Nugie and Miriam's new baby boy, Joshua. This wonderful couple was with us at GBI Cikini until last year and did great things for the Lord before continuing the missionary call to Irian Jaya. Again Congratulation and God bless you all.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Praise The Lord, for the new baby son of Nugie and Miriam, an Indonesian-Dutch missionary couple in Irian Jaya. Nugie sent me an sms saying the baby was delivered 01.23am this morning in a caesar delivery (wow quite an effort to wait for 0123 number ya...). The baby boy was 3.8kg, 51 cm long. Really a bule size ....
The name is Joshua Sebastiaan Akas.
We hope we can get the picture soon ya pak Nugie.
God bless you all
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Friday, August 3, 2007
Pastor Victor Faraknimella from Delft Christian Fellowship, Netherlands is in town and he ministered to us at GBI Menteng Raya's House of Prayer last night. He was there together with his church members of about 10 people. Pastor Victor preached about expectation for the next miracle. Do not be satisfied with what has happened and sit at the comfort zone when you have experienced God's power in your life. Move on and see more of God's amazing power in your life.
Pastor Victor also taught how to move in the Spirit of Worship, psalms and singing in the new songs. It was just amazing. He gave an encouragement prophecy to people who came including to my sweetheart Julita Manik for her music ministry.
He also gave kind comment on my Kiat Sukses book and an encouragement on being productive. I hope he will like my Raffa album as well when he has the chance to listen to it.
Thank you Pastor Victor.
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Friday, July 6, 2007
Thanks for replying my email quickly. I just want you guys to visit this blog as I will put a lot of things that happening to update my self. Please try and download two available songs from my latest album and tell me what you think p-)
go to the link below the cover picture of the album ok.....
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Tuesday, July 3, 2007
met Tini who just arrived from KL. She has recently moved for a new post in KL for 6 months or so. Hopefully she can adjust well with the new environment in M'sia and be a blessing in the church there. Aku titip beberapa CD Raffa untuk di bawa dan diberi atau dijual ;-) juga boleh ke gereja disana. Kalau permintaan banyak, boleh boleh juga kita atur concert di KL bersama Julita Manik sekalian deh.....
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Friday, June 29, 2007
met my old friend jacob yesterday and he asked all about the album. aku bilang berapa tahun terakhir belajar maen gitar, acoustic, electric any kind lah. try to learn to play the licks with guidance from video, books tetap aja ngga jago-jago. Tapi Tuhan itu baik. Ternyata He led me to know about chords and music progression and that's enough for me ... for now at least p-)....
To make a short story longer ,... akhirnya aku jadi bisa bikin lagu-lagu p&w. Sekarang mungkin ada hampir 50 lagu dan 11 diantaranya direkam di album Raffa tersebut. Untuk bonus I recorded "Bapa Yang Kekal" written by my girlfriend and my soulmate Julita Manik ... p-).......
enjoy the download-able samples and you can contact me if you want to buy the CD / kaset...
Early this month we have brother Phillip shared about his work in China. Brother Phillip is a underground missionary in China who steadfastly minister into remote area in China. He and his wife have three children who accompany them in their work. We are really blessed by his testimony and definitely it ignited the mission spirit within the church. After the service we went to the nearby Sundanese Restaurant to have lunch together. The pictures were taken in the Restaurant. The first picture shows Brother Phillip and his oldest daughter.
Brother Phillip was introduced to us by Brother Awi who was visiting us from Beijing together with his whole family who was having a vacation in Jakarta.
