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Baucau

Coastal drive between Dili & Baucau

As I was dozing off in the car, Jony our guide to Baucau called out to me to take photo of this beautiful island. My language proficiency was not good enough to understand the story behind this little island but I was simply blown over by the natural beauty of this land.

More than that, I have just returned from visiting fellow workers serving in this 2nd largest town in Timor-Leste. Baucau is 123 km east of Dili with about 16,000 inhabitants and sits at an altitude of 330 m above the sea, which makes it rather cool to live. Though it takes 3 hours to drive from Dili, the beautiful scenery along the coast is a welcome change from the winding mountain roads up to Maubisse.

We were taking Andy & Eric (from WEFC) to Parlamento to begin their short term missions (6- & 3-weeks respectively). With the Prayer Summit starting today, everyone was away & so much was going on that communication broke down leaving 5 of us with no place to sleep last night initially. By God’s grace, we were able to reach a pastor at the Prayer Summit who put us in touch with Mdm R in Baucau.

Madam R called immediately & gave direction for us to go to her home before it got dark. Not only she gave us clean & safe rooms to rest, she & her team cooked dinner for the 5 of us! During dinner, I had the privilege to listen to her testimony in witnessing to the “hard-core” villagers who were hostile & violent before they were won over by her faith. After we helped to clean up after dinner, we went to bed so not to disrupt their daily devotiopn & prayer at 3 o’clock in the morning.

I enjoyed the morning worship with the kids who sang & danced joyously for the Lord. The kids sat still & listened intensely throughout the scripture reading that followed. I thank God that Mdm R is blessed with local translator as she speaks only Bahasa.