Manado - "Manado Church and Jayapura Church send a mission team"

At the end of June 2009 Jayapura Church and Manado Church have send a mission team to Manokwari – the province of West Papua.

The background of sending the mission was the earthquake which was happened in Manokwari and Sorong on the early of year 2009. Because of that earthquake, a numbers of personnel of HOPE Indonesia are required to give counseling for trauma and training people on how to face or handling disaster in the city of Manokwari for more than 6 (six) months.

Mission team Manokwari is led by Musa and Ida from Jayapura Church. They have 2 (two) children, Catherina and Calvin. Together with them, there are 8 (eight) brothers and sisters from Manado Church who then became the mission team members and also staffs or workers of HOPE Indonesia for Manokwari. They are a married couple Steven & Melce, Randy, Billy, Jean Kaunang, Dince, Devi and Sherly. Plus, a woman named Ibu Kus from Jakarta who helped the mission team to Jayapura for one month in the past.