ICCC INDONESIA NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2015

From the desk of National President

ICCC (INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE) ADALAH MIMBAR DIMANA PESAN KRISTUS BAGI KITA DI ZAMAN INI DIJABARKAN, DIBAGIKAN DAN DINYATAKAN TERHADAP DUNIA BISNIS

NEW NATIONAL BOARD National President Umbu Pekuwali Vice Presidents:  Admin/Secretary Nona Roa 

Finance/Treasurer: Johanis S. Najoan

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Membership/Mentoring/ Network Simon Aditan

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Teaching / Training Benjamin B. Juwono

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Business Development/ Micro-Enterprise Abraham Setiabudi

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Intercessors Mohan U. Vasandani

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Young Professionals Maria Sitorus

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Arbitrase Tonny Sutjoadi

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Counseling & Mission Acts Rev. Dr. Hosea LItaniwan

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Publication Manimbul L. Sitorus

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BOARD OF ADVISORS (Mrs) Mieno L. Menayang Eliezer H. Hardjo

Kantor Nasional ICCC Indonesia: Website: www.iccc-indonesia.com Pertokoan Pulo Mas Blok B I / 8, Jalan Perintis Kemerdekaan. Jakarta 13260 Telp (021) 4890211, fax: (021) 4722274.

E-mail: iccc.indonesia@yahoo.com

Shalom .... Mitra Tuhan di marketplace.

Salam kegerakan..... Semoga belum terlalu terlambat untuk saya menyampaikan “Selamat Hari Sumpah Pemuda tanggal 28 Oktober 2015.”

Tidak mungkin ada gereja, bangsa atau kegerakan manapun tanpa orang muda. Semuanya akan menjadi semakin hidup, bergairah dengan adanya para muda-mudi. Kepada pundak merekalah harapan Gereja, Bangsa, komunitas...umur kita bisa saja menjadi tua, namun biarlah itu untuk membuat kita semakin bijak, jiwa kita haruslah tetap muda, penuh semangat menjadi pelopor perubahan dimanapun kita berada Bukan suatu kebetulan setelah Sumpah Pemuda, bangsa kita memperingati Hari Pahlawan setiap tanggal 10 November dimana para perintis kemerdekaan dan para pahlawan gugur demi bangsa dan negara.

Banyak diantara kita puas atau hanya ingin menjadi yang baik, tapi kekristenan tidak pernah memanggil kita hanya untuk menjadi orang yang saleh dan baik, kekristenan memanggil kita menjadi pengubah lingkungan, masyarakat, dan khususnya marketplace.

Apakah anda benar-benar lebih dari pemenang? Jikalau anda belum pernah memenangi sesuatu bagaimana anda dan saya tahu apa itu lebih dari pemenang? Siapakah pemenang itu? Merekalah yang disebut pahlawan. Pernahkah anda bayangkan keluarga anda, staf anda, lingkungan anda menganggap anda adalah pahlawan mereka karena perhatian, waktu dan uluran tangan Anda bagi mereka?

Bertindaklah sahabat Tuhan di marketplace, lakukan sesuatu untuk Bisnis anda, atau profesi anda,atau gereja anda,atau lingkungan anda atau minimal keluarga anda. Satu values ICCC yang luar biasa saya ingat”If We Obey, He Acts” taat dan lakukan langkah iman .... DIA akan melakukan bagianNYA....

Kami mohon dukungan dan doa Anda sekalian bagi penyelenggaraan Asia Region Convention yang akan diadakan di Jakarta tanggal 14 – 16 Januari 2016 dengan para pembicara dari dalam dan luar negeri.

Saya yakin ICCC Indonesia Newsletter bulan November ini dapat memberikan inspirasi untuk melakukan sesuatu yang nyata sebelum tahun ini berakhir. Sampai jumpa di edisi bulan depan dan Tuhan Yesus memberkati anda sekeluarga.

Umbu Pekuwali National President ICCC Indonesia www.iccc-indonesia.com

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Dr. Peter Chung a True Life Story

By Dr. Peter Chung President and CEO, Eminata Group , a multi-million dollar education-based company.

Moving from South Korea to North America I came to North America as a boy. I was 14 years old and my family settled in the Los Angeles area. Immediately upon my arrival, I was put into an English as Second Language class to learn to speak English. In Korea, we lived close to the US 8th Army division base, so as a child, I grew up thinking there were only two other types of people, black soldiers and white soldiers, and that they all spoke English. So you can imagine my determination to speak English, and when I settled in Los Angeles and went to school, I worked really hard to make friends with those who were black and white and who spoke this wonderful language. I would talk with my friends outside of class, and study hard in class. After a month or so, it started to dawn on me that the language I was communicating in with my friends was different than the language I was learning in class. I realized I was learning Spanish.

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While I was in high school I was a bit of a rebel.

I was angry that my father’s low-paying job as pastor of a small Korean church in Los Angeles meant that my mother had to work long hours in a sewing factory making ties to support the family. So it was with this background that I opened a Tae Kwon Do school and taught fellow students in an effort to help make ends meet. In the 70s, Bruce Lee was becoming a hero in the martial arts, making martial arts very popular, so I approached my student council president to see if I could give a Tae Kwon Do demonstration at the school. Our school had three thousand students, and fifteen hundred showed up! From there, I recruited thirty students to start my first class.

This was my 1st business!

University After high school, I left home and went to study mathematics and computer science at UCLA and it is here that Christianity really entered my life. Our roommate David was a very faithful Christian. I respected him because he was a senior and a Physics major with (straight) A's. On the first day of school, he turned on the light at six in the morning, read the Bible aloud, prayed and went to school. On the second day of school, he turned on the light at six in the morning, read the Bible (aloud), prayed and went to school, and I got a little annoyed. We all shared one open room so I could hear everything. On the third day he turned on the light at six in the morning, read the Bible aloud, prayed and went to school. I got more annoyed so I asked him a blunt question. “David, why do you get up so early to read the Bible, pray and disturb everybody? Isn’t going to church once a week enough for you?” His response to me was “Peter, I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and I communicate to God through prayer and I get His message through reading the bible. This is how I start my day."

He then invited me to come to his bible study group. As a preacher’s son, I thought I knew a

lot about the Bible but after attending a few Bible studies with our roommate I realized how little I really knew about God. So with my faith and my degree in hand I graduated and took a number of respectable jobs.

to my wife and family and we prayed together.

I realized I can only eat one meal at a time, sleep in one bed at a time, and wear one pair of pants at a time.

I used to think that I was a big shot, now I know now that I am not. God is the biggest shot of all. I am nothing without God.

But I knew, inside, there was more.

SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSES

CHANGED MY ATTITUDE I started my own businesses in private education, banking, real estate and automobile safety engineering. Things grew very quickly and as they grew, I was humbled and gave thanks to God for His blessings.

Before I went to work, I used to kneel down on my 2nd floor balcony looking at the ocean, mountains and sky and pray, “Lord who am I to be blessed with such magnitude? You know I don't deserve this. Help me to glorify You throughout the day. “I prayed this prayer every day.

So I repented, asked for forgiveness and asked God to make me humble again. I promised myself and promised God that I would give all credit to Him if I were to be given another chance, and that is how I am standing here in front of you tonight.

After a while people started telling me how smart and successful I was. My response to them was, "It is not me; God is the one who is blessing me". Many people wanted to be my friend and continued to tell me how successful I was. The media wanted to do interviews and they did stories on me. As time passed by I started thinking that maybe I was not dumb after all. Maybe I was smart.

In our world, there is little certainty. We try to define success with words like fame, power, honour, wealth, status. There is nothing wrong with being successful as long as we understand God is the one who gives us ability to produce success. Also we must understand all these are temporal measures in our temporal world.

When I die, I am not going to take any of these with me. The most important thing is, as said

by King Solomon, “vanity is vanity, all is vanity. Fear the Lord and keep His commandments. Do good while you are living, this will bring you happiness.” To me, this is key to success.

BUSINESS REVERSALS

JOSEPH

At its peak, I had 14 businesses, and as they grew, unfortunately so did my ego and arrogance. I lost humility, and this coupled with a significant business reversal resulted in a loss of 95% of my assets. At this point, I turned back to God, and asked “why me”? I had made many donations to mission groups, Christian charity and helped the poor. I asked God why He was putting me in these circumstances. I became very lonely because most of the people who I thought were my friends quickly ran the other way. I realized that the only trust I had was in God. I turned

Through all of this my wife Stephanie and I were blessed with five wonderful children.

We thanked God and offered our 1st son Joseph as a missionary and devoted ourselves and Joseph to do God's work. At the age of three, Joseph was diagnosed with autism, and by the age of

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seven, he had developed a seizure disorder that would eventually be diagnosed as epilepsy.

We asked God why Joseph was given these difficult challenges. After all, he was dedicated to the Lord as missionary. Thru many prayers and tribulations, we realized Joseph was a missionary to our family.

Thru Joseph God taught us humility Thru Joseph God taught us to be generous Thru Joseph God taught us patience Thru Joseph God taught us empathy Thru Joseph God taught us to have compassion for others Thru Joseph God taught us to do good.

On September 26 6:35pm, I received a phone call from Joseph's caretaker. She said Joseph was found in the bottom of a swimming pool and he was on his way to the hospital. I asked, “Is he ok?” She said he was breathing and that he should be ok. So I thought everything would be fine. An hour later, I received a call from my wife Stephanie and she told me to come to the hospital right away. At 12:40am on September 27, 2012, at the young age of 32, God took our handsome Joseph home.

It was so sudden and as you can imagine, Stephanie and I were in shock. I was told by many of my Christian friends that children are a gift from God to be raised by us while we are on this earth. Children are not our own. When God took Joseph home, the real meaning of this struck me. In such a painful way, I learned that death waits for no one. When it comes, you must be ready, and that as a parent, you must love and cherish your children.

God’s love embraces us all and as He turned His face as His Son Jesus died on the cross, I had a glimpse of the pain of God the Father. At the same time, I felt God's love. As a Christian I have hope that I will one day see my son Joseph again.

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I recently wrote a thank you letter to Jesus Christ, and in it I gave thanks for ten things. It was not easy to do this, but knowing my son Joseph is in Heaven, I was able to complete it.

Tonight, I want to share two things I am thankful for: Thank you God, for 32 years of Joseph's life on this earth for us to enjoy and we are all eternally grateful.

Thank you God, for giving us compassion toward special needs people and their families.

We are grateful to God that He is using Joseph as His missionary today. I would like to share a couple of these with you. The Joseph Chung Scholarship Fund continues to grow to allow students to work hard and study so that they may walk the path that Joseph could not, and work to enlarge God’s Kingdom as Joseph surely would have done. We want to give thanks and glory to God that in 2012, God allowed us to fund over $400k to students who are pursuing postsecondary education.

And also, Joe's Table, a coffee shop, my wife Stephanie's dream, that employs people with differing abilities, is 2 weeks away from opening and will eventually open locations across British Columbia and Canada. Joseph had a mission, and indeed, he has a mission, and that mission carries on today.

We are approaching Christmas Day. This will be my 58th Christmas on this earth, and my first in so many without my son Joseph. This Christmas will be the most meaningful Christmas to me, for without Christmas, there would be no death on the cross, and no resurrection. I now live with faith in God, and know that after I die, I will be reunited with my son in Heaven.

This week, we visited Joseph’s grave, and as a family, we sang his favourite hymns. We cried together and we prayed together, we gave thanks to the Lord for Joseph's place in

Heaven and for the belief that we will see him again one day. While there, I noticed another tombstone behind Joseph’s grave. That person was the same age as me. I noticed other tombstones, some people were older and some were younger. Stephanie and I were doing estate planning for Joseph so he could be taken care of after we die. Who would have thought that my son, Joseph was going to die before we die?

Saying this prayer is the first step towards a personal relationship with Jesus, who will guide and encourage you every step of the way.

Death does not discriminate. We must be ready and we must have hope. We must know where we are going, we just do not know when.

International Christian Chamber of Commerce (ICCC) lahir dari kepatuhan terhadap visi yang diberikan selama kurun waktu enam tahun kepada seorang usahawan Swedia J. Gunnar Olson, yang diteguhkan dengan nubuatan dan terbukanya pintu kesempatan disekitarnya yang sebelumnya tertutup.

In the New Testament, Jesus said “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies”. I have personalized this using my son Joseph’s name; Jesus said“I am the resurrection and the life.

Joseph who believes in Jesus will live, even though Joseph died."

I ask you to take to your heart what I have shared with you. Joseph is in Heaven because God so loved us He gave his only begotten son.

Whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Thank you for allowing me to share my journey. _____________________________ If a relationship with God is something you crave, it can start here and now. God cares far less about your words than the attitude of your heart. So tell Him what you're thinking. Here is suggestion: God, I believe that you created me to know you. Thank you for sending your son Jesus, as a sacrifice to pay the penalty that I deserve. I beleive that his death and resurrection has restored me to you. Please forgive me for everything that has offended you. Take first place in my life and help me become the person that you created me to be.

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VISI DAN TUJUAN ICCC

ICCC merupakan panggilan yang serius dan menantang bagi pengusaha Kristen untuk mengenali jaman yang sedang kita masuki dan dengan terang dari pengenalan itu memasuki dimensi iman yang baru yang disediakan bagi mereka yang …” takut akan TUHAN … berbicara satu sama lain … dan menghormati namaNya.” (Maleakhi 3: 16) Visi ini memanggil para pengusaha dan kaum profesi di seluruh dunia yang terbeban untuk saling berhubungan, bertukar pendapat, memperdagang-kan barang dan menyediakan jasa, saling mendukung dan menguatkan secara rohani dan materi. Berdasarkan eksistensi dari visi itu sendiri memproklamirkan otoritas Kristus yang mutlak diseluruh dunia.

Pada intinya ICCC adalah kehendak TUHAN untuk memperluas tali kasih-Nya, melalui gereja-Nya, didalam dunia usaha. Hal ini menuntut para pelaku bisnis mencari terlebih dahulu Kerajaan-Nya dan segala Kebenaran-Nya. Urapan tersedia bagi mereka yang dengan mata melihat dan telinga mendengar panggilan jaman.

Sebagaimana halnya Raja Daud yang menerima urapan untuk menjadi raja, jauh sebelum dia menjadi Raja, yang keadaan pada saat urapan diberikan sama sekali tidak mungkin bagi Daud untuk menjadi Raja, demikianlah ICCC memanggil para pengusaha Kristen sebelum peristiwanya terjadi untuk mengalami kebebasan masuk ke dalam dimensi baru, dimana sasaran, strategi dan perencanaan bersama-sma diwujud-nyatakan sesuai dengan iman di dalam Kristus.

ICCC mencanangkan panggilan itu sejalan dengan rencana TUHAN bagi jaman ini sebagai kunci memperoleh berkat dan pertumbuhan dan agar dapat bangkit berkemenangan diatas gelombang ombak yang mengancam.

Panggilan ICCC: “Mereka akan menjadi milik kesayanganKu sendiri, firman TUHAN semesta Alam pada hari yang Kusiapkan. Aku akan mengasihi mereka sama seperti seseorang menyayangi anaknya yang melayani dia.

Maka kamu akan melihat kembali perbedaan antara orang benar dan orang fasik, antara orang yang beribadah kepada TUHAN dan orang yang tidak beribadah kepadaNya.” (Maleakhi 3: 17-18)

KEYAKINAN IMAN ICCC: 

Satu-satunya TUHAN pencipta segala sesuatu dalam kesatuan Trinitas: Bapa, Anak, dan Roh Kudus.

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Keilahian TUHAN Yesus Kristus. Kelahiran-Nya dari rahim seorang Perawan. Karya penebusan dosa manusia melalui kematian-Nya diatas kayu salib. Kebangkitan-Nya. Hak otoriatas diri-Nya atas dunia dan Kedatangan-Nya yang kedua kali dalam Kuasa dan Kemuliaan-Nya.

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Alkitab, sepenuhnya sebagai Firman TUHAN yang mem8berikan inspirasi dan berbagai peraturan bagi kehidupan yang dilandasi iman.

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Keselamatan pribadi orang berdosa dan kebutuhannya untuk mengalami proses regenerasi melalui8 karya Roh Kudus dalam menuju menjadikannya sebagai manusia yang dikehendaki oleh TUHAN, seutuhnya.

Transformed Working Life (TWL) adalah Pelatihan resmi dari Kantor Internasional bagi anggota ICCC dalam memperlengkapi anggota dengan pengetahuan dan pemahaman latar belakang, tujuan dan penerapan prinsip-prinsip Kerajaan TUHAN bagi dunia bisnis dan profesi.

TWL diperuntukkan bagi anggota dan dapat diikuti secara Cuma-Cuma, namun terbuka juga bagi siap2a saja yang berminat untuk mengikutinya.

TWL

diselenggarakan dalam bahasa Indonesia dan dilengkapi dengan buku panduannya, yang telah diterjemahkan kedalam Bahasa Indonesia juga, sehingga para peserta betul-betul akan memperoleh manfa’at yang besar dan mengalami transformasi dalam kehidupan pribadi maupun bisnisnya.

TWL difasilitasi oleh anggota National Board yang terlatih dan dikoordinir oleh V.P. Teaching: Benjamin B. Juwono bersama dengan Teaching Team: Johanis S. Najoan dan Eliezer H. Hardjo Transformed Working Life (TWL) akan ditayangkan dalam salah satu channel di Indonesia agar dapat dimanfaatkan oleh para pebisnis & profesional Kristiani di Indonesia bagaimana menerapkan prinsip-prinsip Kerajaan Tuhan dalam kehidupan berbisnis dan bekerja mereka.

TWL bagi members secara rutin diadakan pada hari Sabtu ke 2 setiap bulan dan terbuka dan dianjurkan bagi semua member untuk mengikutinya sebagai pembekalan wajib.

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"How can I have a closer relationship with God?"

Developing a closer relationship with God is an admirable goal and reflects a heart that is truly reborn, for only those who are in Christ desire a closer relationship with God. We must also understand that in this life we will never be as close to God as we ought to be or desire to be. The reason for this is lingering sin in our lives. This is not a deficiency on God’s part, but on ours; our sin remains a barrier to the full and complete fellowship with God which will be realized once we’re in glory.

Even the apostle Paul, who had about as close a relationship as one could probably have with God in this life, still longed for a closer relationship: “Indeed, I count every thing as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ” (Philippians 3:8-9). No matter where we are in our walk with Christ, we can always have a closer walk, and, even glorified in heaven, we will have all eternity to grow in our relationship with the Lord.

There are five basic things we can do to have a closer relationship with God. The first thing we can do to have a closer relationship with God is to make a daily habit of confessing our sin to Him. If sin is the barrier in our relationship with God, then confession removes that barrier. When we

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confess our sins before God, He promises to forgive us (1 John 1:9), and forgiveness is what restores a relationship that has been strained. We must keep in mind that confession is more than simply saying, “I’m sorry for my sin, God.” It is the heartfelt contrition of those who recognize that their sin is an offense to a holy God. It is the confession of one who realizes that his sin is what nailed Jesus Christ to the cross. It is the cry of the publican in Luke 18 who said, “God be merciful to me a sinner!” As King David wrote, “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise” (Psalm 51:17).

The second thing we can do to have a closer relationship with God is to listen when God speaks.

Many today are chasing a supernatural experience of hearing God’s voice, but the apostle Peter tells us that we “have something more sure, the prophetic word, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts” (2 Peter 1:19). That “more sure prophetic word” is the Bible. In the Bible, we “hear” God’s voice to us. It is through the “Godbreathed” Scriptures that we become “thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16-17).

So if we want to grow closer to God, we should read His Word regularly. In reading His Word, we are “listening” to God speak through it by his Spirit who illuminates the Word to us.

The third thing we can do to have a closer relationship with God is to speak to Him through prayer. If reading the Bible is listening to God speak to us, speaking to God is accomplished through prayer. The Gospels often record Jesus secreting Himself away to commune with His Father in prayer.

Prayer is much more than simply a way to ask God for things we need or want. Consider the model prayer that Jesus gives His disciples in Matthew 6:913. The first three petitions in that prayer are directed toward God (may His name be hallowed, may His kingdom come, may His will be done). The last three petitions are requests we make of God after we’ve taken care of the first three (give us our daily bread, forgive us our debts, lead us not into temptation).

Another thing we can do to revive our prayer lives is to read the Psalms. Many of the Psalms are heartfelt cries to God for various things. In the Psalms we see adoration, contrition, thanksgiving and supplication modeled in a divinely inspired way.

The fourth thing we can do to have a closer relationship with God is to find a body of believers

with whom we can regularly worship. This is such a vital component of spiritual growth. Too often, we approach church with a “what can I get out of it?” mentality. We seldom take the time to prepare our hearts and minds for worship. Again, the Psalms show us many calls from God to His people to come and worship the Lord (for example, Psalm 95:1-2).

God invites us, commands us, to come into His presence for worship. How can we, His people, fail to respond? Not only does regular church attendance give us an opportunity to come before the Lord’s presence in worship, but it also gives us an opportunity to fellowship with the Lord’s people. As we come into the house of the Lord in worship and fellowship with His people, we can’t help but grow closer to the Lord as a result.

Finally, a closer relationship with God is built upon a life of obedience. Jesus told His disciples in the upper room, “If you love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:23). James tells us that as we submit ourselves to God through obedience, resist the devil, and draw near to God, He will draw near to us (James 4:7-8). Paul tells us in Romans that our obedience is our “living sacrifice” of thanksgiving to God (Romans 12:1). We must keep in mind that all biblical exhortations to obedience are presented as our response to the grace of God we receive in salvation.

We don’t earn salvation through our obedience; rather, it is the way we show our love and gratitude toward God. So, through confession, Bible study, prayer, regular church attendance, and obedience, we can develop a closer relationship with God. It seems rather simple, if not simplistic. But consider this: how do we develop a closer relationship with other human beings? We spend time with them in conversation, opening our hearts to them and listening to them at the same time. We acknowledge when we’ve done wrong and seek forgiveness. We seek to treat them well and sacrifice our own needs to fulfill theirs. It’s not really that different with our relationship to our Heavenly Father.

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