Giving Hope to the Local Church in Indonesia

WINTER 2021 UPDATE | COVID-19 and Compassion Indonesia

This year, the rapid spread of COVID-19 across the globe threatened to derail the launch of 284 new child development centers. This would have left impoverished children and families unsupported during an unprecedented health and economic crisis. But generous donors like you stepped up to ensure many of the centers were empowered to provide life-changing holistic care for these beneficiaries, even though they hadn’t completed the child registration process.

Thanks to your support, the partner churches are engaging with the most vulnerable children and families in their communities. They are distributing food baskets and hygiene kits, providing access to health care, and even visiting homes to provide emotional and spiritual support, where it is permitted and safe to do so. They are also providing educational support through online or WhatsApp lessons or by delivering educational materials to children. Although most of the children are not yet formally registered, they are very much a part of the Compassion family, and they are already learning that they are known, loved and protected.

: More than 1.12 million food packs delivered

: More than 841,000 hygiene kits distributed

: Nearly 85,000 individuals received medical support

Aventura Equips Churches to Respond in Indonesia

Church: Gereja Toraja Jemaat Paccerakan 2
Location: Luwu, Sulawesi Selatan
Projected Registered Children: This center projects registering 100 children, 3-8 years old, when it is permitted to restart operations

COMMUNITY PROFILE

The church is located in a rural community and is home to approximately 2,700 people.
The primary language is Indonesian.
Typical houses are constructed with cement floors, wood walls and tin roofs.
The primary regional diet consists of rice and sago (a common local starch).
Most adults practice subsistence farming.

Because of your gift, Gereja Toraja Jemaat Paccerakan 2 has been able to start administrative activities while awaiting the opportunity to fully register children and implement holistic child development activities. Staff from the church have begun to set up the children’s ministry office, conduct health and hygiene checks, provide important health information, and meet with families at home to pray with them.

: Staff visit the home of a child to deliver food supplies.

: Family members also benefit from supplies provided by the church.

A Message From the Pastor of Gereja Toraja Jemaat Paccerakan 2

Dear Friends,

We would like to express our gratitude to you who have provided assistance. We are very grateful because the provision of this assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic greatly eased the economic and health struggles for beneficiaries and ben

eficiary families. We hope that the COVID-19 pandemic that hit the world can end and the recruitment of our children can be continued.

We would like to thank you for helping us during the COVID-19 pandemic. We pray that all of you have good health and avoid the COVID-19 virus.

God bless us and give peace to you and to all of us. Amen.

Letter edited for clarity.