GEREJA PEKABARAN INJIL "JALAN SUCI"

Baptism Welcome to Jalan Suci A Brief History of Jalan Suci (The Holy Way in Indonesia) A support group was established in 1964, but the history of The Holy Way in Indonesia began in February 1965, when the Rev. Edwin Stube and family arrived in Semarang (Central Java). He believed that the Lord wanted to reveal new things about evangelism, worship, training, and ministry, and tried to get the elders and others in the church in Semarang to gather together for fellowship in the Spirit. But they had all become occupied, with various traditional projects and seemed not to have any interest in the work of the Holy Spirit. A report on training programs was submitted, and ignored. In June of 1966 the Stube family all moved to Nongkodjadjar, a small village in the mountains of East Java. Here the Holy Spirit was gloriously poured out, and God did a sovereign work in the hearts of a number of young people. Almost immediately these young people were sent out to share what they had received. They went to the Celebes and encountered all sorts of experiences. The boys had come to feel a tremendous need to dig deeply into the Bible to find answers to their questions and direction for the future. God seems to feel that His Word has to be put into practice. Since then times of travel and experiences of all kinds were always alternated with periods of quietly sitting at God’s feet at home to learn. This study was never divorced from practice. What was learnt in the morning study period was usually put into practice in house-meetings and other opportunities in the afternoons. Two days a week were spent sharing God in the villages. The vision of a training center was confirmed many times, once in 1968, through a vision that Rochani received, and many times through prophecy, by people who had no idea of the plans and thoughts that were in our minds. The first Bible Training Centre was established in Lawang, East Java, Indonesia, was opened in 1971. It was a radical, non-formal approach to training young people for ministry in the present age. The program provided new students with grounding in the fundamentals of the Bible, experience of evan­gelism; and also the reality of life and ministry in the Body of Christ. Actually this training approach is as old as Christianity itself, but it is always a challenge that is shockingly new. When you read the New Testament you notice that Jesus never scheduled a class or drew up a curriculum. He just gathered together a little group of young men. He said, "Follow Me." They saw His miracles, and His way of approaching all sorts of people. They observed His teaching to the crowds, His silencing of the Pharisees, His loving ministry of help to the sick and to repentant sinners. Photo of the First Outreach Team - from 1966 When they had time, Jesus and His disciples sat down and talked over what they were experiencing. His teaching was always non-formal, always practical, and related to the reality of the present situation. Jesus' training of the disciples could not be separated from His fellowship with them. They ate and slept and worked together. The disciples learned by associating with Him, experiencing His love, observing His life-style, sharing in the secrets of His heart. It is hard to replicate this way of learning, even though it is clearly successful. It is even harder to keep traditional learning structures from creeping back in. This work describes the heritage and foundation of The Holy Way. In 1976, the Stubes left the “The Holy Way” in the hands of the young Indonesian people they had trained. Over these decades, Apostolic ministry teams have been sent to many parts of Indonesia and beyond.  Many Training Centres and Worship Centres have been established. God is faithful, and the revealing work of prayer, worship, training and evangelism continues to move on, and we pray that God will continue to work  in power.