EAGLES NEST MINISTRIES

 

EAGLES NEST MINISTRIES

Jawaban bagi Indonesia

Indonesia dikenal sebagai sebuah negara kepulauan yang memiliki keragaman suku, budaya dan bahasa daerah. Mayoritas penduduk Indonesia merupakan orang non Kristen dan merupakan negara Muslim terbesar di dunia. Masih ada sekitar 129 suku dari 23 rumpun suku di Indonesia yang sama sekali belum pernah mendengar berita Injil. Gereja Tuhan di Indonesia mungkin telah berupaya memberitakan Injil dalam masyarakatnya namun hasilnya belum optimal. Begitu banyak orang yang menolak berita sukacita tersebut karena menganggap berita tersebut sebagai “kepercayaan asing”. Sebab dibagikan dalam kemasan yang kebarat-baratan, yang mungkin tidak cocok dengan budaya setempat dari masyarakat yang hendak dijangkau. Ada banyak suku yang siap dan terbuka seandainya kita memberitakan berita keselamatan itu dengan menyajikannya sesuai kebiasaan, adat istiadat serta budaya mereka.

Eagles Nest Ministries berdiri 1 Juli 2007 di kota Bandung, salah satunya untuk menjawab tantangan ini. Pelayanan ini dirintis oleh suami istri Dave Broos dan Novie Durant yang merindukan umat Tuhan meresponi Amanat Agung Tuhan (Mat 28:19-20, Karena itu pergilah, jadikanlah semua bangsa muridKu dan baptislah mereka dalam nama Bapa dan Anak dan Roh Kudus, dan ajarlah mereka melakukan segala sesuatu yang telah Kuperintahkan kepadamu. Dan ketahuilah, Aku menyertai kamu senantiasa sampai kepada akhir zaman) untuk menjadi murid dan menjadikan segala bangsa murid Tuhan hingga kerajaan Tuhan diperluas, suatu umat yang bukan “sekedar beragama Kristen” tetapi mengetahui panggilan Tuhan atas hidupnya dan membawa dampak bagi komunitasnya. Dave Broos merupakan hamba Tuhan yang ditahbiskan oleh United Christian Faith Ministries dari Amerika Serikat, ditunjuk sebagai regional director dari Shadow of the Cross di Indonesia (sebuah pelayanan bagi sub kultur di perkotaan), pendoa syafaat Global Prayer Network – Johan Maasbach Wereld Zending dan utusan Injil dari Gereja Oikos Indonesia jemaat Surabaya.

Visi Eagles Nest Ministries adalah “MEMBERITAKAN KABAR BAIK, MEMURIDKAN & MENGUTUS SETIAP ANAK TUHAN UNTUK “MENJADI” GEREJA DIMANA PUN MEREKA BERADA”. Kerinduan kami adalah bekerja bersama dan memperlengkapi semua denominasi gereja, persekutuan, pelayanan Kristen lainnya dalam menyelesaikan amanat agung. Pelayanan ini berjejaring dengan pergerakan pemuridan dan penanaman gereja dunia Zoe Ministries, LK10 dan Outreach Fellowship International.

Missi kami adalah:

• MEMPERKENALKAN PENGHARAPAN & KASIH BAPA SURGAWI PADA DUNIA TERHILANG
• MEMULIHKAN & MEMURIDKAN MEREKA YANG BERKOMITMEN UNTUK BERTUMBUH DALAM KRISTUS
• MELATIH DAN MENGUTUS MURID KRISTUS SEBAGAI AGEN PERUBAHAN KE SELURUH DUNIA
• MELIHAT TERANG TUHAN BERSINAR DIMANA-MANA MENERANGI DUNIA SAMPAI TUHAN DATANG KEMBALI

Kami menyadari bahwa kami tidak bisa bekerja sendiri tetapi diperlukan kebersamaan dan kesadaran bersama akan kehendak Tuhan. Diperlukan sebuah kesehatian dan kesatuan (meski kita berbeda organisasi tapi satu dalam Tuhan Yesus) agar kita dapat berfungsi sebagai tubuh Kristus yang menjadi berkat dan dampak bagi mereka yang belum mengenal Tuhan.

Bagaimana Anda dapat menjadi rekan kami?

Keberhasilan pelayanan ini berarti juga keberhasilan umat Tuhan di Indonesia. Roma 10:13-15,”Sebab barangsiapa yang berseru kepada nama Tuhan, akan diselamatkan. Tetapi bagaimana mereka dapat berseru kepadaNya, jika mereka tidak percaya kepada Dia? Bagaimana mereka dapat percaya kepada Dia, jika mereka tidak mendengar tentang Dia? Bagaimana mereka mendengar tentang Dia jika tidak ada yang memberitakanNya? Dan bagaimana mereka dapat memberitakanNya, jika mereka tidak diutus? Seperti ada tertulis:”Betapa indahnya kedatangan mereka yang membawa kabar baik!” Kami mengajak Anda untuk dapat terlibat bersama dalam menjangkau jiwa terhilang melalui 3D

DIRI

Bagi mereka yang mau terlibat dalam mewartakan Injil, pemuridan, penanaman dan pengembangan gereja. Kami memberi diri untuk memperlengkapi baik seorang pribadi maupun gereja atau persekutuan yang hendak bermultiplikasi atau menanggapi amanat agung. Bukan jumlah orang tetapi kesediaan menanggapi panggilan Tuhan adalah tujuan kami. Kami memiliki bahan-bahan pemuridan yang dapat digunakan baik untuk pribadi, persekutuan maupun gereja yang hendak bertumbuh.

DOA

Anda dapat berdoa syafaat keluarga kami dalam memenuhi panggilan Tuhan dalam kehidupan kami. Kami juga menyediakan blog yang berisi berita dan pokok doa bagi suku-suku terabaikan baik di Indonesia maupun mancanegara.

DANA

Bagi mereka yang mau mendukung kami agar kami bisa pergi memperlengkapi umat Tuhan maupun gereja Tuhan di daerah terpencil atau tak mampu hingga kami dapat memperlengkapi dan mengutus lebih banyak lagi anak Tuhan dalam pemuridan dan perintisan gereja. Bagi yang terbeban dapat menghubungi kami lebih lanjut.

Saya percaya Anda dapat menanggapi salah satu atau bahkan ketiga hal tersebut sebagai anggota tubuh Kristus yang telah mengalami kasih karunia dan anugerah keselamatan. Anda dapat merenungkan dan mendoakan ke tiga hal tersebut demi menjangkau mereka yang berseru,”Menyeberanglah kemari dan tolonglah kami.” (Kis 16:9). Dapatkah Anda mendengar seruan mereka yang terhilang? Tuhan menunggu partisipasi dan pengabdian Anda kepadaNya.

Salam dan doa,

Dave Broos

Kontak kami dapat melalui inbox Facebook atau direct message Twitter, email: davebroos@yahoo.co.uk , telpon 022-92050322 atau SMS 087832744286.

Its not what happens to you in life

Dear Dave,
We have a saying in AMI: "It's not what happens to you that matters, it's how you respond to it."
I'd like to take that even further: It's not what you did that matters, it's how you respond to it.
If you read 1 Kings 21, you will see a very interesting narrative. It tells the story of a weak and insecure leader, King Ahab, his wife Jezebel, and how to respond when you have failed in sin, miserably.
The story starts out with Ahab desiring his neighbor's beautiful vineyard. Like a good businessman, he approaches the owner, Naboth, asking to make a deal. But he is rebuffed when Naboth says that he can't do it, because the law of Moses says that you cannot give away your family's inheritance. What the Lord gave was supposed to stay in your family forever.
So Ahab goes back to his palace and is depressed because he couldn't get his way. He was so depressed that he didn't even want to eat.
Perhaps you have been depressed like this before. There are many causes of depression, but the main one, the one Ahab had here, was a wrong (that means sinful) response to a problem.
Ahab knew what was right. And even if he didn't, he found out from Naboth, and he had the opportunity right there to say,
"Okay, this is the Lord's way, I will submit." But unfortunately he didn't do that, so his wife Jezebel comes in and says that she will get the vineyard for him. In a nutshell, she signs letters in Ahab's name, and frames Naboth.
She got some false witnesses in, and as a result, Naboth was stoned to death. Jezebel then tells Ahab, "Here you go, take possession of your new prize!"
So he goes and takes it, but what do you know, waiting there for him is Elijah. The Lord speaks through Him and basically curses him for his despicable sin. It's really quite a curse. Not just on him, but on his whole house. But here is the part I want you to see.
1 Kings 21: 27-29:

“And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly. 28 And the word of the LORD [Yahweh] came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
29 See you how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: [but] in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.”

Because Ahab humbled himself, because he responded correctly, the Lord showed mercy. Sure his actions had repercussions, just like ours do. The Lord will always forgive us, but sometimes what was done cannot be undone.
But no matter where you are right now, we can all learn from Ahab's failure. He could have done what was right from the very beginning. He could have been content with all that God had given him, instead of lusting for more.
He could have let it go, when Naboth said no. He could have said no to Jezebel when she said she would get the land for him. But fortunately enough for him, this time, he did the right thing.
How many times in your life have you faced this same scenario? You start going down a path that you know that the Lord doesn't want you to go down. And all along the way He gives you little opportunities to turn away.
The best thing is never to go down that path in the first place, but if you do, know that it is never too late to turn and submit yourself to the Lord.
No matter if you've failed out right, or just heading down where you shouldn't, it doesn't matter. What matters is how you respond. What matters is what you are going to do about where you are right now.
Are you at a place right now where the Lord is tugging on your heart and bringing you to a place of conviction? If so, just surrender. As the Word says, "Rend your heart and not your garments." Ask the Lord to create a right spirit in you because the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit and a contrite heart.
And you can rest assured that as you do this, you will experience the peace and freedom and joy that comes from walking in the will of the Lord!
In His Grace,

FIND HIM IN THE STORM

Dear Dave,
We all know how hurricanes work in the natural.  We know what they look like and what to do when one suddenly takes form. But how about the hurricanes in your personal life?
I'm sure you can easily recognize those times in your life when you feel pressure from all sides. There are situations that challenge you, circumstances that take all your strength and it seems as if it would never end.
As I found myself in the middle of such a hurricane, and as I came to the Lord and begged Him for a timeout – a little break – He showed me a wonderful picture.
Did you know that it is windless and completely calm in the eye of a storm?
I saw myself sitting in the eye of the storm. It blustered and roared around me, but in the eye of the storm, it was quiet and a gentle rain trickled on my head.
It does not matter what kind of situation you are in right now. I want you to close your eyes and imagine yourself sitting in the eye of the storm. Hear the Lord saying to you:

"My child, the storms in your life will come and go, but do not be tossed and turned around by them. Do not be caught in the whirl of the storm. Learn to find me in the storm instead. Because where I am, there is rest and peace. When you rest in me, you will be refreshed, even when everything around you is spinning around. Stay in this place. Stay in the eye of the storm. The storm may disappear and you may come into a time of joy and resurrection, but stay in this place. Another storm may follow and it will look as if the world will fall apart. Stay in this place. Stay in the calmness of my presence and feel my anointing and my refreshment coming down on your head like gentle rain.
No matter if the problems are many and the situations are tough or if things are easy, just stay in this place. When you learn to find me, not only in the storm, but in every situation of your life, you will indeed walk in a deep peace. This will be your time of rest. This will be your time of a break. So learn to find me in every situation of your life and take your break in me, my child."

When you discover this deep truth, you will not look for an escape or long for a timeout anymore. You will not long for a break from the training the Lord has placed you in because you will find this timeout and this peace, right in Him.
It does not matter where you are right now – seek the Lord. Find Him in the middle of a meadow with blooming flowers where everything is wonderful. However, find Him also in the middle of the problems of life. Find Him in the middle of the Storm.
Be abundantly blessed!

Church Planter Caught in the Crossfire in Watertown

By Baptist Press

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WATERTOWN, Mass. (BP) — A Southern Baptist church planting resident at a Boston-area church found himself, along with his wife, in the crossfire of a police shootout early Friday morning (April 19) with the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings.
Stephen McAlpin, who is nearing the end of a one-year North American Mission Board church planting internship with Hope Fellowship Church in Cambridge, Mass., had just gone to bed around 12:40 a.m. when he and his wife heard something that sounded like fireworks.
By then officials had identified two brothers believed to be responsible for the double bombings that killed three and injured more than 170 people April 15, and Thursday night the suspects hijacked a car in Cambridge and drove to Watertown, where McAlpin lives, while being pursued by police.
A dramatic shootout commenced outside McAlpin’s home, resulting in the death of one of the suspects. The other remained on the loose Friday, causing the entire city of Boston and surrounding communities to be placed on lockdown as police searched for him door to door.
“The gunshots were continuing. We heard glass break. We started crawling into the kitchen of our home — me, Emily and our dog,” McAlpin recounted to NBC’s Brian Williams Friday afternoon. “As we were crawling, we saw a large flash like an explosion. We got underneath our kitchen table and continued to hear gunshots. They were much louder and felt closer.”
The couple could hear yelling and what sounded like another explosion.
“I’m a grown man, but at that point I was terrified and I was holding my wife there under the table and holding my dog, and it got real for us,” McAlpin said. “We realized that we could die.”
McAlpin told Williams via telephone that he and his wife are Christians and they prayed in those most dangerous moments that God would keep them safe.
“We prayed for God’s grace to protect us and protect our neighbors and just sat there,” he said.
They moved into their bathroom and huddled in the bathtub with their dog, and after about 30 minutes, police knocked on their door and showed them what had happened. Bullets had entered their living room. One was lodged in their television, which kept it from entering their bedroom on the other side of the wall. Another had hit a picture frame. Outside their SUV had sustained damage from a bullet.
Police were marking the evidence in and around their home, which included “many bullets and shells around the side of our house and also in the front,” McAlpin said.
“Since then we’ve just been staying in our kitchen, trying to stay safe. It’s overwhelming to us that all of this happened, but we just feel blessed to be safe,” the church planter said.
“We know how easily things could have gone poorly for us and we’re just thankful for God’s grace in protecting us. I don’t really know. It doesn’t feel real. You never think in your home when you’re safe and trying to sleep that bullets are going to come through and that explosions are going to happen.”
McAlpin also told Williams, “We’re in shock. I haven’t been able to go to sleep. We’re exhausted. But we’ve just been trying to share about what happened and even just tell people about the kind of hope that we’ve found in God during this really dark time.”
The couple has plans to move to Los Angeles to plant a church when the internship in Boston is over. McAlpin said they’re trying to process what happened overnight and react as they should as Christians.
“[We're trying to] love our own neighbors here and look at this as an opportunity to speak out of our experience to them,” he said, adding that as they sit in lockdown at home, he and his wife are praying for law enforcement officials and for Boston.
“We just want this to end. We want life to return to peace as best as it can, but I think a lot of people are going to be struggling with, ‘How do we go from this back to what we call normal life?’” McAlpin told Williams.
Stephen and Emily are from St. Louis, and he said on NBC that he moved to Boston to study at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he recently graduated with an M.Div.
“[I] have been working at a local church here called Hope Fellowship and they’re training me to learn how to start a church and to share God’s love with people,” McAlpin said.
“So that’s what we’re doing in the area for the year, and we’re just trying to — we love the city here and we love to be a part of the area,” he said. “Boston is normally such a strong and vibrant place to live and I think moving forward we hope that we can just keep loving people here and challenging people to share in our hope.”
As he closed the interview, Williams told McAlpin, “My hat’s off to you for the generosity of spirit that I’m hearing in your reaction after what you’ve been through last night.”
According to his Twitter page, McAlpin also was to share his story on CNN Friday and via Skype on NBC’s Rock Center at 10 p.m. Eastern.
At one point Friday, McAlpin tweeted, “Thank you Jesus for giving us hope greater than the measly things of this world that we lost today.”
Erin Roach is assistant editor of Baptist Press. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress ) and in your email (baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp).

SIAPA YANG MURAHAN?

SIAPA YANG MURAHAN?
Baru saja ia memandang dirinya, ia sudah pergi atau ia segera lupa bagaimana rupanya (Yakobus 1:24)
Seorang Oma berbincang-bincang dengan saya di sebuah coffee shop, beliau mengeluhkan gaya hidup wanita zaman sekarang. Saat beliau melihat seorang gadis muda yang merokok, beliau mengeluh betapa gadis muda saat ini nampak murahan dengan mengisap rokok. Beliau menceritakan betapa anggunnya wanita muda pada masa mudanya, pada era penjajahan dulu. Setelah berbincang cukup lama sambil mulai meminum kopi, ia pun mengeluarkan sebungkus rokok, mengambilnya satu batang dan mulai menyulutnya.
Saya sempat terheran-heran, bukankah tadi si Oma mengutuk dan berbicara keras betapa wanita perokok nampak seperti wanita murahan?
Saat saya pulang, saya mulai merenungkan kejadian ini dan belajar memang sangatlah mudah bagi kita mengkritisi kehidupan orang lain namun sering kita lupa untuk instropeksi diri. Seringkali kesalahan yang sama pun kita lakukan, entah kita sadar atau tidak.
Sebab itu sangatlah penting bagi kita semua, untuk bukan saja merenungkan firman Tuhan dan lalu menggunakan tolok ukur kebenaran itu untuk menghakimi orang lain. Sepatutnya setelah kita membaca dan merenungkan firman Tuhan maka pertama-tama kita harus menggunakan kebenaran itu untuk mengkoreksi kehidupan kita terlebih dulu. Sebagai murid Kristus kita harus bertumbuh di dalam pengenalan akan Dia dan mengalami transformasi dalam Dia.
Doa: Tuhan tolong kami menjadi pelaku kebenaranMU.
Firman Tuhan: Yakobus 1:19-27

Let The Rain Fall

Let The Rain Fall

Can you see the clouds gathering up ahead in the spirit? They are indeed a promise of my rain that is coming. Just as you can smell the freshness in the air, so also is my presence all around you. For you do not need to go far to reach my presence.

When the rain begins to fall, does the thirsty ground rise up and try to catch it all? No, it simply waits and soaks the rain in when it comes. In the same way you do not need to strive to reach me my child. For I surround you. I am around you all of the time. All that you need to do is stand in my presence and let it water you.

However when you are so busy running around, you miss out on the blessing that I have for you. You do not need to run to find me child. You do not need to try so hard to come into my presence. You only need to stand and to know through faith that I am there.

You do not need to struggle or to strive. Simply rest and let the rain fall. For when you rest and let my rain fall on your head, you will be refreshed. You will be washed clean and the things you did not understand before will suddenly make sense. So rest this day. Rest in my rain. You will see that I have not forsaken you, but have waited for you instead. I have been waiting for you to come to rest and to simply open up your arms to me.

So do that now. Open your arms to the heavens and soak in the rain as it falls and you will see that I pour forth with abundance says the Lord.

AKIBAT MELANGGAR ATURAN

AKIBAT MELANGGAR ATURAN
Ada jalan yang disangka orang lurus, tetapi ujungnya menuju maut (Amsal 14:12)
Senin pagi merupakan hari yang sibuk, semua orang seolah dikejar oleh waktu. Pagi itu seperti biasa saya tengah mengantar putra tercinta ke sekolah. Jalanan pagi cukup padat, semua orang berburu dengan waktu untuk mencapai tujuan. Pada jalan satu arah itu, saya melihat sebuah sepeda motor yang dikendarai seorang ibu dan ketiga anaknya dengan kencang melawan arus. Seolah tak menghiraukan peringatan orang-orang dengan percaya diri sang ibu muda itu memacu sepeda motornya melalui kendaraan yang kami tumpangi dan lalu terdengar suara keras,”Braak!” Ternyata sepeda motor yang dikendarai si ibu muda dan ke tiga anaknya, menabrak sebuah mobil angkutan yang tengah menepi menurunkan penumpang.
Akibat ingin cepat mencapai tujuan, si ibu melanggar aturan lalu lintas dengan melawan arus, jalan satu arah. Alhasil bukan cepat sampai tujuan malah cepat sampai di rumah sakit bersama anak-anaknya yang suka atau tidak harus mengikutinya. Dalam hati, ada perasaan bercampur aduk antara kasihan dan juga marah. Kasihan melihat anak-anak yang ikut menderita akibat keputusan yang salah, marah terhadap keteledoran seorang ibu yang seharusnya mengayomi dan mengasihi malah mengambil keputusan yang salah.
Saya segera tersadar bahwa memang benar apa yang Tuhan firmankan bahwa rancanganNya bukanlah rancangan kita, jalanNya bukanlah jalan kita. Sebab itu kita harus hidup taat padaNya, ketaatan padaNya merupakan pintu berkat bagi hidup kita sedang ketidaktaan terhadapNya hanya akan membawa kita pada kesengsaraan.
Doa: Tuhan, tolong kami untuk menjadi anakMu yang hidup dalam ketaatan. Amien.
FT: Mazmur 119:10-20