Thankful…

• That the trip is a GO! We are going to Telunas and will be learning/serving at two islands around the Riau region.
• We were able to purchase the tickets for our family and the rest of the team.
• We get to go as a family with 5 other BAIS students and Mish’s teacher – Ms. Hays.

Please Pray…

• That God will prepare our hearts to what He has to teach us through this experience.
• Boys will stay healthy leading up to the trip and during the trip.
• For financial provision. The total cost of this trip is around Rp 32.000.000 or around USD 2300 for our family. We are trusting Him to provide half of this by February 8, 2019.

If you are lead to support us financially then please read on…

If you are in Indonesia and would like to transfer the money to our school bank account, then here’s the information:

Bank Name: CIMB Niaga
Bank Address: Kota Baru Parahyangan
Account Name: Yayasan Sekolah Persekutuan Bandung International
Account #: 800-133-798-100
Swift Code: BNIAIDJA
Please provide the following information on the bank transfer form:
The Ramappa Family – SeaTribe

Please shoot us an email or a WhatsApp message when you send a financial contribution so we can follow up with our school to ensure that it goes towards this trip.

If you reside outside Indonesia, then you can send us money via PayPal:

Thank you!

For partnering with us in prayer and through your generosity.

Our school is focusing on Romans 12 as our theme for the year and the theme is “FLLY DVTD”.  The chapel times have been really rich and we just finished our Spiritual Emphasis Week at school last month and have heard God doing great things in the students’ lives through that time.  The staff devotions have also been really good this school year, we are going through Romans 12 during the admin lead devotion times and during the Bible CEU times, Jason Whitehurst shared 8 powerful sessions from the life of Elijah.  All of these are available on our school’s YouTube channel. 

Hani is trying out various opportunities to serve during the past few weeks; she continues to assist with the member care at school.  She is also serving in teaching Indonesian language and also teaching English to the people in our community.  We are trying to figure out what her next school year is going to look like as she would have to work at least part time at BAIS in order to maintain our current income.  Our school has an amazing benefit for families with small kids (less than 5 year old) where they supplement us financially and if we’d like to keep that supplemental income then the non-working spouse would have to volunteer at school.  So, she’s trying to pray through that on what that would like for her next school year.  Please lift her up in your prayers because I’d love for her to find a role at school where she would flourish individually and be a tremendous blessing to the community. 

I personally have been doing OK.  We traveled to Australia last summer to go to the Hillsong Conference and man that was such a blessing.  We are amazed at God’s provision for us to be able to go to this conference.  We also had the chance to connect with my cousin whom I haven’t seen in 10+ years while we were in Australia. The boys were able to connect with their cousins (my cousins’ sons) and they got along so well.  

We are getting ready to go to India in the next couple days to spend Christmas with my mom in Chennai.  We’ve been blessed to be able to make this trip every Christmas and it’s neat to see Mishael (our 5 year old) associate Christmas with going to Grandmas’ house.  That has become his “tradition.”  

This school year we are part of the team called Sea Tribes where we take few students BAIS to a short-term service trip in the Batam area.  This trip is in March 2019 and we need to raise both prayer warriors and financial supporters for this trip.  The last time we did this trip was 4 years ago when Mish was just a year old, and the kids had such a great time back then.  This year it’s going to look a bit different as I’ll be with the boys and one other male student and Hani would be with the female students housed in different houses while we are at the islands.  It’s gonna be different as we always travel together, it’ll be a bit weird to not have mom with us in the same house.  We are also hoping that God will do a mighty work in shaping the faith of our boys and also the 5 students at BAIS who are going on this trip. So, please join with us in praying for this trip.  If you’d like to support us financially for this trip then please shoot us an email: family@w-r.family and we can provide you with the information on how you could support us.  Our organization NICS.org provides ways for you to send a tax deductible donations and we’d love to share that information with you if have the resources to support us financially. 

Hope y’all have a great Christmas season as you remember the birth of Jesus Christ and our prayer that during this season He’ll be birthed into the hearts and lives of many people around the world. 

Have a blessed Christmas and New Year 2019! 

• June 2011 – Birth of our second son – Azariah
• November 2013 – Birth of our third son – Mishael
• April 2014 – Our mentor Esther Russell went to be with the Lord
• December 2015 – Left Indonesia for the first time in 4+ years with the whole family to visit India with the Squiers family
• January 2015 – Shocking death of a dear friend Bethany Lytle whose family is very similar to ours with three children. Both our families came to Indonesia in 2010. Later in 2013 the Lytles moved to Lima, Peru to serve at our sister school. If you’d like to donate to help this family in need then please visit GoFundMe.com

I’m really hoping to start writing more frequently than once in every 4 years. Stay tuned for more updates.

So we are trying to find a new home for our two cats (this is really really really hard for us). We’ve had Putih (pronounced as poo-ti, which means white in Indonesian) since he was a tiny little kitten, we’ve had him since 2005 and he had grown up with us. Now, it is really hard for us to let go of him.

Our other one is Kucing (pronounced as koo-ching, which means cat in Indonesian); we adopted her in 2006 and she’s very very special to us. I think she’s an introvert and very shy. She took a long time to warm-up to us and that makes her very special to us.

Here are their pictures, if you know anybody who would like to adopt our cats, please ask the to contact us ASAP, we would need to find a new home for them in the next 3 days.

Here are some images from the ikea website for the BJURSTA table: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10182311

Key features Dining table with 2 pull-out leaves seats 4; makes it possible to adjust the table size according to need. Pull-out extra leaves serve as practical utility surfaces and can be stored under the table top when not in use. Table surface with clear lacquer finish; simply wipes clean.	Product dimensions Length: 50 3/4 “ Min. length: 35 3/8 “ Max. length: 66 1/8 “ Width: 35 3/8 “ Height: 29 1/8 “

Here’s the image of the HENRIKSDAL chair from Ikea website: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S09862179 (chair on the picture doesn’t seem to have any cover, the cover we have is navy blue):

Email me at the above address or call my mobile (626) 224-6041, if you are interested in seeing/buying the dining table and chairs.

Here are the real pictures of the table and chair:

Link to GE Appliances product page: GE® “J” Series 25.2 Cu. Ft. Side-By-Side Refrigerator with Dispenser

• Pack the boxes to ship via ocean freight
• Sell/give away all our furnitures at home
• Get shots for the cats and get an health certificate
• Close all our credit cards/bank accounts
• Pack our checked-in baggages
• Last but certainly not the least, saying goodbyes to our dear friends

15 more days to get on the flight to start a new chapter of our lives. Meet our “new” friends over the ocean. This is a hard but exciting transition for us and we appreciate all your prayers.

We are trying to sell this car to raise support for our move to Indonesia. We bought this car last year from our friend who rarely drove this vehicle; it had only 26k miles when we bought it. This car got a tune-up, and regular maintenance at Firestone over the last year. The tires are brand new, we had to replace them couple weeks ago when one of them went flat.

Known problems on this car: Although this car runs great, there are some minor problems with this car. I am not a good car sales man, I would like to be honest with you if you are interested in buying this car. The rear right door doesn’t open from the outside. Rear left door’s power window just stopped working (probably a fuse). The power antenna doesn’t retract all the way.

Here are some pictures of the car taken on June 5, 2010 (click on the picture to enlarge):

If you are interested in buying this car, please let us know your best offer, use the following contact form to get in touch with us:

If you would have to walk into our house right now at 3:30am, you would see boxes of all sizes all over the living room. We are trying to ship some boxes via ocean freight. We found this shipping company called American Baggage through our friends who are in Indonesia. Their prices are very low compared to other shipping companies that we’ve found.

June 18th will be my last working day at ConsumerTrack, Inc. It would have been four years this August since I joined them. I am so grateful for working with a smart group of people who also care for each other. I’ll truly miss working here. I remember talking to my HR last week telling her how much I enjoy doing what I do there at ConsumerTrack. I’m not leaving ConsumerTrack for any other reasons other than we feeling compelled to move to Indonesia.

Leaving and saying goodbye to friends and families here in the US is going to be hard for us. Although Indonesia is closer to “home”, US has been our home. This is the land where we got married, where our son was born and it feels like most of our life “happened” here. I spoke to one of my good friend earlier this week over the phone. He asked me how do I feel about this move? And my answer to him was: “Sad, anxious, and happy”. His response to that was: “That sounds about right”

We will be traveling to Southaven, MS for a pre-field orientation with Network of International Christian Schools during the last two weeks of June. NICS is the umbrella organization that overseas more than dozen international schools all over the world and Bandung Alliance International School where I’ll be teaching is one of them.

We are praying for people who would stand with us in prayer and through financial support as we step out in faith in this next phase of our life. We don’t know much about what’s ahead of us, except that I’ll be teaching computer programming and web design to high school kids in Bandung Alliance International School; but we know that we are lead to go to Indonesia. If you would like to support us financially, then please contact us.

Please follow this blog if you would like to stay updated with what’s happening in our lives. We’ll be posting updates here more frequently, or at least we’ll try harder than before.

There is another huge transition coming our way this Summer. Some of you might already knew about it, but for those of you who don’t – we’ll keep you posted with updates here in this blog.

Chao for now!