Beyond Our Walls
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Beyond Our Walls

Finding Jesus in the Slums of Jakarta

  1. 142 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 25 Dec |Learn more

Beyond Our Walls

Finding Jesus in the Slums of Jakarta

About this book

Finding True Worth in the Slums

With over one billion people living in urban slums today, these communities are arguably one of the largest unreached demographics in the world. The challenge is great, as are the sacrifices of living there, yet the Lord can do much with a willing follower. So, what if choosing to live in a slum is a way to become closer to Jesus?

Beyond Our Walls provides a unique window into what ministry in an urban slum setting can look like. The author shares the amazing story of God's faithfulness in her life, as she follows Jesus into the slums of Jakarta, Indonesia, and still lives there twelve years later with her husband and two young sons. Not only have her Muslim neighbors had an opportunity to get to know a follower of Jesus, but the author herself has been forever changed by her experiences.

Readers will be moved and challenged by this book. It provides an intriguing testimony that will appeal to those interested in Muslim/Chrisitan relations. And women already on the mission field will find it especially encouraging as the author reflects on the difficult aspects of mothering on the field and the faithfulness of Jesus through the hard years of parenting small children.

While life in the slums is often hard, the joys are many as well.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword by Rev. Jim Wallis
  3. Foreword by By Scott Bessenecker
  4. Prologue: Wake Up
  5. Introduction: Breaking Down Walls
  6. Chapter 1: The Art of Unlearning
  7. Chapter 2: A New Name
  8. Chapter 3: Taste and See
  9. Chapter 4: Evil Tidings, Raging Fires
  10. Chapter 5: The Miracle House
  11. Chapter 6: Out of the Rubble
  12. Chapter 7: Finding Treasures in Trash
  13. Chapter 8: Sighs Too Deep for Words
  14. Chapter 9: No More Tears
  15. Chapter 10: Mothering in the Slums
  16. Chapter 11: Outside the Christian
  17. Chapter 12: The Word That Shall Not
  18. Chapter 13: Things as They Aren’t
  19. Chapter 14: Where Floods and Vermin
  20. Chapter 15: The Cross and the ER
  21. Chapter 16: A Time to Tear Down and a
  22. Chapter 17: When Breath Departs
  23. Chapter 18: Not Perfect, but Beautiful
  24. Chapter 19: According to What One Has
  25. Chapter 20: My Daily Walk … Home
  26. Epilogue
  27. Appendix: Poems
  28. Acknowledgments
  29. Bibliography
  30. Suggestions for Further Reading
  31. Organizations Serving in Slum Communities