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On Wednesday we visited the East Indonesia Compassion HQ in Manado. Visiting an office might sound boring, but it wasn’t! It really was an amazing privilege to meet the incredibly godly people on the ground in East Indo.

I was struck by the systems, processes, accountability and how each staff member knew their role within the whole. What this means is that when money is provided by donors, you can be confident that it is being spent wisely, with precision and genuinely helping children.

Compassion East Indonesia currently has 39,000 children within their projects but only 30,000 have sponsors.

Prayerfully consider becoming a sponsor of one of the other 9,000 kids. Only $44 a month. See www.compassion.com.au for more info. It’s worth it!

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This photo is taken from the roof of our fairly swanky hotel. Manado has lots of new development and wealthy houses side by side with poor, broken and destitute dwellings.

Lots of the rundown houses still have pretty good looking televisions, but not much else.In the city there are poor people rubbing shoulders with relatively wealthy business and commerce workers.

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Manado is in East Indonesia on North Sulawesi. We don’t see sunsets over the water on the east coast of Australia.

After a visit into the local shops, we stuck around for the #beautiful #sunset. It was worth it. Then we saw an even better angle, which is the photo below, taken not long after the sun went down.

We enjoyed a delicious – and quite spicy – Indonesian dinner tonight.

More about the projects and Compassion’s work tomorrow…

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We’ve arrived in Manado after a day of travel. Flying is still glamorous for me… good times. The highlight was the small rolled up hand towels they gave us to wipe our faces and some gangsta movie on the first flight.

I’m here with a team of 13 including @CompassionAU workers, ministers and others from churches in Sydney, Newcastle and Canberra.We will be visiting a bunch of the projects that Compassion are part of in the Manado area.The photo is somewhere in the air during flight 2.

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