2. Rev Ronnie Welong General Director KGBI

6. Julianus

7. Ta’orudo Halawa

8. Tauduzisokh Halawa

9. Jama praying with Sunday School children

10. Jama singing with Sunday School children

11. Jama teaching Sunday School children

12. David McLellan meets Jama

13. Jama looking out to sea

14. Jama looks out to sea

15. Jama helps in house reconstruction

16. Faigi Guol and his son Sabarudi

17. David McLellan discusses the order of service

19. David McLellan

20. David McLellan looks out to sea

21. David McLellan

22. Shoreline on Nias

23. Traditional fishing boat

24. A fisherman paddles back to shore

25. A fisherman pulls his boat ashore

26. The morning’s catch

27. Fishing boats

28. A single shoe in the sand

29. Part of an old hull

30. Nias shoreline

31. Fishing boats

32. A sandal washed ashore

33. The jungle at Watastiga, Nias

34. Watastiga, Nias

35. Rice growing in a paddy field

36. Gunung Sitoli, Nias

37. Temporary shelter

38. A local market with cocoa beans drying in the sun

39. Restoration of the sea defences at Gunung Sitoli, Nias

40. Restoration work after the earthquakes

41. workers bend a length of piping

42. Street drainage, Gunung Sitoli, Nias

43. Rickshaws, Gunung Sitoli, NIas

44. Earthquake damaged house

46. A sofa lies crushed beneath a collapsed house

47. The earthquake fault line left of the steps just missed this church

48. Ruined churches are being rebuilt

51. Ruined houses are being rebuilt

53. Rebuilt homes are being occupied

55. ‘Jesus is the best’

56. Rebuilt homes are co-funded by BMS and HIM

57. David McLellan discusses a church building with Ronnie Welong

58. The new church building at Watastiga, Nias

59. Rev Agustinas Awumbas and Ronnie Welong

60. New church building, Watastiga – about to have it’s first service

61. Indonesian bible

62. The first service at the new church in Watastiga, NIas

63. The new church building at Watastiga, Nias

65. A key ceremony for a new home

68. Rural life, after school

69. A favourite toy

70. Going to church in Nias

71. Hope for the future

72. Communal reading of Psalm 46 (1) God is our safe hiding place, Easy to find when danger strikes. (2)We won’t fear When the world is broken, When mountains crash into the sea.

73. (1)When roaring waves crash over us, As mountains shake at the sound. (2)There is a river, with streams that make God’s city glad, The holy place where lives the highest God.

74. (1)God is there, right in town! The city won’t be moved. Early in the morning, God will help. (2)Nations are troubled! Kingdoms totter! God shouts! Earth trembles!

75. (1)Yahweh is here with his army. Our parents’ God is our high ground. (2)Come! See what Yahweh has done! The kinds of places he’s wiped out.

76. (1)He stops wars anywhere-now! He splinters bows and breaks spears! He burns chariots! (2)Calm down. Know that I’m God. All nations will know that I am boss. The world will know that I am in charge.

77. (1)Yahweh is here with his army. Our parents’ God is our high ground. Amen Translation by Henry Neufeld http://www.energionpubs.com/wordpress/?p=201

78. Theological Reflection Questions In the face of such a huge natural disaster is Pastor Ronny’s response naive optimism or unshakeable faith?

79. Theological Reflection Questions Are people who have suffered great loss too vulnerable to evangelise and are they open to exploitation even by well meaning Christians? In these situations should Christians simply show compassion but without evangelising?

80. Theological Reflection Questions Are there lessons that we can learn from his attitude? Is it those who have suffered most who have the greatest faith?

81. Responsive prayer (congregational response on right) Lead us God to higher ground. Teach us to be still and know that you are God, our refuge in times of trouble, our strength in times of chaos.

82. Help us not to fear Should the earth give way The mountains quake The waters roar Help us not to fear When the nations stir Or wars destroy And kingdoms fall

83. Remind us of the river whose streams make glad the city of God. Lead us God to higher ground. Teach us to be still and know that you are God, our refuge in times of trouble, our strength in times of chaos.

84. Remind us of a place where the most high dwells a place of help at break of day Where wars will cease and bows will break where spears will shatter and shields will burn

85. Lead us God to higher ground Teach us to be still and know that you are God, our refuge in times of trouble, our strength in times of chaos. Amen