uildings--whether clinics or churches or schools--play an important part
in establishing an Adventist witness in remote parts of Indonesia, says West
Indonesia Union president Houtman Sinaga. He points particularly to the contribution
of a lay couple from the United States--Garwin and Marilee McNeilus--who have
donated money to build more than 100 churches, 20 clinics, and 20 schools. The
project spans three heavily populated, rural areas in West Indonesia: eastern
Java, one of the most densely populated areas in the world; West Kalimantan,
where animism is still practiced; and South Sumatra, which, along with these
other areas, has almost no Adventist presence.