Flashback to 2011

Easter was again the first special celebration for this year in Gloria Senggarang Preaching Point. We celebrated it by organizing contemporary dance competition with Christian songs for the teens and Easter egg decorating competition for the kids.

The Junior High School students presented an Easter dance

We thanked God for allowing us to renovate the house where the preaching point was situated with financial sponsor from members of Gloria Methodist Church Medan. The renovation involved the changing of the flooring material from wood into concrete with new ceramic tiles as well as extension of some parts of the house so we have wider meeting space and terrace now.

The process of house renovation

As we have better environment now, we have no more worries if we do not have enough space to accommodate more than 100 audiences during any events organized. On the other hand, the children would have bigger space to play and it would not cause noise pollution anymore to the neighbors as the wood flooring produced a lot of noise when the kids jumped and ran around.

The renovation process took three weeks of June to be completed. On the June 23, 2011, Rev. David Wu, the leading pastor of Gloria Methodist Church Medan dedicated the renovated house to the glory of the God with a thanksgiving service.

The dancing presentation on the post renovation thanksgiving service 

In the third Sunday of July (July 17, 2011), it was the memorable day for us as Gloria Senggarang Preaching Point started the first Sunday School service. Averagely, each week, there were around 30 students attended the service. We praised the God with Sunday School songs, we played games before we heard the Bible stories. To attract the students for coming to the Sunday School, we gave a coupon to each student every week. The coupon can be collected and redeemed with eye-catching gifts.

Happy Sunday / Sunday School  at Gloria Senggarang Preaching Point

To cultivate a loving heart to their own hometown: Tanjung Pinang; the students were brought on a study trip to visit Sultan Sulaiman Badrul Alamsyah Museum. They learned the history of Tanjung Pinang as well as the Malay culture. This trip was organized on July 27, 2011.

The Elementary Students paid attention to the explanation of traditional Malay musical instrument

The Junior High School students with the traditional Malay costumes' models

The South Korean Methodist mission team came back to Senggarang again this year at August 3, 2011. Similar to what we had last year, the youths played and shared Christ love with our children. This year, they also presented a skit and a Korean version of Christian song.

A welcome to Rev Joo, a missionary from South Korea Methodist Church

To celebrate the 66^th Indonesia Independence Day, we at Senggarang also rejoiced with a lot of traditional games played like crackers eating, hitting the stick, moving the marbles, biting the coins until everybody was wet when we ended the carnival with “water war”. Everyone was extremely happy, especially those who won the games as they received presents.

The kids were on the hitting stick competition on our Indonesia's Independence Day celebration 

The student was trying to finish her cracker on our Indonesia's Independence Day celebration 

The second anniversary of Gloria Senggarang Preaching Point was celebrated in the third Saturday of October. Students from every classes presented special items to commemorate this event. The housewives also presented their voices by singing a song, while the Singapore team played a skit. The 1.5 hour(s) celebration was ended with cake cutting ceremony. The birthday presents as well as noodles were distributed to all the guests at the end of the event.

The students presented a song on our second anniversary

The housewives joyfully presented a song too on our second anniversary

Our second anniversary cake cutting ceremony

In December 17, 2011, we celebrated this year’s Christmas. This celebration also marked the end of this academic semester. All the students involved in enlivening the program. For the comprehensive report of this event, please read on "The 2011 Christmas Happiness in Gloria Senggarang Preaching Point".