Our New Sign!

Check out what sister Liliana created for Project Joshua.

It's a sign to be put up on the property at Trinity Blvd!  All we need now is two fence posts,  and we officially have a sign.

    

Thank you sister Liliana, and thank you God for blessing us with so many talents!

That's a Nice Church!

Soli-Deo Church is blessed by many talents.  Dr. Kiki made this very detailed model of a church building and it is now sitting at the front lobby of  Arlington Chinese Bible Church.  

It features a lot of nice details, like an actual working barn door.  

Kids would come around and park their toy cars around the building :D  

The church has a nice feature on the roof.  Notice the hole where you  can leave your donation.
Yes this miniature church is a piggy bank for the Project Joshua building project.

If you are not in the area, but feel moved by the Spirit, you can still donate! Simply contact brother Okie through his email at okiesetiawan(AT)yahoo.com.

How does God keep helping the Joshua Project

I was using Google earth looking at the property at 13501 Trinity Blvd. The New Church Property. One of the thing to do for the thanksgiving service is parking. The only way to park cars on the property is to jump the curb to enter the area. So we were looking who we should use for cutting the curb.
On my Google earth map I noticed that our neighbor to the west has a flag on the Google earth map.

It says Pavement Service Co. They cut curb, make pavement, parking lots and striping. Our own neighbor. You cannot get anything closer then this. Praise The Lord. So Okie will pay them a visit and ask them how much it will cost for a good neighbor like us :-).

Blessing

Kiki

Our first Thanksgiving Worship on the New Land (13501 Trinity Blvd)

We are planning to have our first worship on this new land maybe in the mid october this year. We will pitch a tent. We encourage people to bring their own folding/lawn chair.
This service will be held at 10:00 or 11:00 am on a Sunday.
This should be neat in an open air worship. Some logistic need to be overcome like Rest rooms, electricity for the mike and keyboard etc.
We will see, we will keep you uptoday as we get closer to the date.
Praise The Lord for His Blessing on Soli-Deo

Kiki

Today our church prayed a corporate prayer.  Among the things we asked for is guidance.  Now that the church has the land, we need to executed our next steps.  We prayed for a successful fundraising effort to raise funds.  And also, we are asking for the Lord's guidance, in terms of locating an Architect, engineers, and a good trustworthy general contractor for the completion of this church building project.   

Land Sale agreement signed!

Praise the Lord!   Today marks a momentum event in the Joshua Project story. 

As of  8:45 AM this Wednesday morning, Soli-Deo Indonesian Church is the offical owner of the property at 13501 Trinity Blvd.    The land sale transaction was officially signed by the seller and Pastor Siswanto and Okie Setiawan as representatives of the church. 

Pastor Siswanto and Brother Okie

With the lawyer representing the seller

There are a lot of papers to be signed.

 

The place of signing was Lawyers Title Company, located at 1100 E. Southlake Blvd in the city of Southlake, Texas.

Please continue to pray our church as we begin the planning of our church's construction.  
 

Indonesian Independence Day Bazaar

Th e 17th of August marked the 68th birthday of the Indonesian nation.    Today, the church is celebrating the event by holding a food bazaar.  As the church service comes to an end, fragrant appetizing aroma invades our nostrils.  The ladies has transformed the eating area into a seller's booth, full of traditional Indonesian food  for sale.

Stacks of  bowls with traditional "soto",  a dish hearty meat broth, with rice noodles, shrimp cake and meatballs, and other dishes abound.

The sellers donated a portion of their sale to support the project.  Some of us choose to donate all of the rofit directly to the project.   Like sister Ester's table. 
She has handmade crafts and traditional gowns for sale.  And all of her profit goes directly to the new church building.