January 19, 2009
At the Jeepny
Drama at Rizal Triangle, olongapo
i almost fell from that pole 
Presentation at Haven Praise Chruch. Me and David, also Sven holding the mci for me..It's a small new chruch with B.I.G SPIRIT, i mean it, BIG SPIRIT!!! WOW!!!
School Evangelism @ Baretto National Highschool. There were more than 100 salvations happened there!!!
Outreach at 12th street - olongapo. With the kids there. they are so sweet!
The Wall of HOPE and DECLARATION at 12th street
January 19, 2009
Week 3rd at Philippines..
So..here i am at the capital of Philippines, Manila. It’s a nice city here..I like it..
Pinoy (Philippines People) people is a bit different from the mostly asian people that i know. They eats a LOT of american foods here. I mean, in almost everyside of the road there are burgers kiosk everywhere!!! They LOVE it! WOW (to me)!!!
Anyway…Before we left Olongapo city, we did an OPEN AIR evangelism at the Rizal Triangle. We did some praise and worship at first, drama (skit), testimony, sermon, and praying for people. On the prayer part of this open air event, a pinoy guy named George came to our event. But he was late. We met him outside the triangle before the event started, he said that he will come as soon as he finish his work. And then, we (me and therese) had a chat with him. He told us about his life and family..While he was telling us about his life, i felt that God put a compassions to him in my heart. I was so touched by his story. And i felt that God want me to give him my last AU$50 for him!!! And i gave it to him. Instantly, he cried and hugged me. I explained to him that it was my last money, so there is no point for me to give my money. But since God told me to do so, so i obey him. SO, i emphasized it to him that it was from GOD, he is taking care of you (george).
And you know what, God is a FAITHFUL GOD!!! Right away (i didn’t expect it to be so fast) he gave me 1,000 Peso (equal to 30AU$)!!! WOOOOOW!!!
We did a school evangelsim also at the Baretto national highschool. And you know what?? There were more than 100 salvations happenned there!!! Dea, my friend, was preaching there at challenged the students!!!! WOW!!!!
It was an AMAZING weeks in Subic city though, also in YWAM Subic!!! Thank you Leslie, Sonny, Gay ann and Lot – lot!!!! You have been taking care of us for the whole weeks!!! The foods was AMAZING!!! 
I love them ALL!!! I love you guys too!!!
In Manila, we stayed at YWAM Balut here. It’s a nice base too 
Here in Manila, we helped the ministries that YWAM Balut has already started. We helped the people from smokey mountains who now living at the Paradise Hike Apartements. Smokey mountains was a place where filipino some filipino people in manila used to live. It was a rubbish dump are, where they throws all the manila city rubbish. The people used to live there, but now they were moved to 28 apartments complex, Paradise Hike
The land that they use as apartments was also FULL of rubbish too. But somehow they excavated them and turned into a RUBBISH HILL!!! YES, it’s a HILL made from rubbish, it’s about 3 ACRE!!!! I have never seen anything like this!!!! I heard that some of the rubbish were “IMPORTED” from Japan. They sent 20 containers filled with rubbish from Japan!!! That’s TERRIBLE!!! Me, Sven and David got the chance to pray from that Rubbish Hill. It was so OVERWHELMING!!! I believe that the name of Paradise Hike isn’t just a name, but TRULY it’s a PROPHECY from God that HE DEFINITELY WILL CHANGE this community, especially the people into PARADISE!!!! Go Paradise Hike!!!
The Paradise Hike’s people has been living in the apartments for about 5yrs. We have done some ministry here with them. We ministries on college, high school, tubercolosis, daycare and on the YWAM base itself.
When we were doing the daycare ministry for the mother, visiting them at their home. I had a MOMENT. Meaning, i had a very good exeperience hearing God’s voice. It was on some lady house, we were talking with her. And on her home there was a guest too, a mother of 2 children (8yrs old boy and 7yrs old girl). Her husband left her without giving her ANY SUPPORT!!! And when i saw her face, i was DEEEEEEEPLY touch!!! I feel what God feel in his heart!!! It was COMPASSION!!! Pheeeew, i couldn’t held my tears. It started to fall. I felt that God want me to say to her, this was God said through me,
Daughter, you do not need to be look tough all the time. It’s ok to expres your feeling that you are sad and tired. Talk to me, and as you do i will give you gladness. I wanted you to know that after all this time it was me who have been taking care of you and your children.
When she heard this, she was crying.
Oh wow, feeling what God feel at the moment was truly an amazing experience!!! I am so deeply encouraged by this experience!!!
Friends, thank you for your prayer for me. But i really need more prayer than before. It would be so wonderful if you could keep praying for me for the next week.
Here are the list of the prayer:
Thanks for doing so frineds
Blessing from Manila,
Ericko
January 7, 2009
Happy New Year 2009 for all my friends and supporters!!!
How you guys doin? I hope you are doin greaat!!!
As you can see, that I am in Philippines now since last week. I’m at Olongapo city, the municipal (kabupaten) of Subic city. My oureach team live at the YWAM Subic base here led by Sonny and Leslie. This base is not like a base at all, it’s like a HOME! So N.E.A.T!!!
By the way..Yesterday, 6th January 2009, the team splitted into 2 teams. Boys and Girls
The boys team went to the Jail to teach at their bible study event and the girls team teaching Bible study at the 12th street too.
Me and my friend, David Reissman from Germany assigned to teach at the Jail. Before we left to the Jail, we prayed to God asking for guidance of what we should share to them. As we prayed, i felt that God wanted me to share about “Father Heart of God“, and my friend David felt that God wanted him to talk about “Grace“
We started the Bible Study with praise and worship. We sang 2 songs, “My Redeemer Lives” and “Open the Eyes of My Heart”. There were about 20 people came to the Bible Study there. They were singing with ENTHUSIASM!!! It was AMAZING!!!
After that, i got the 1st chance to share little testimony about Father Heart of God to them. And then my friend, David Reissman, finished the whole bible study event VERY WELL!!! We challenged them whether if they want to get a prayer from us. And there were 10 peoples came up to the front!!!
It was so encouraging to see these guys, full of tatoes, ex murderer, drug dealer came up to the front and they tell their stories about their problems and life with sincere heart and GENUINELY!!! I felt blessed because of their attitude toward the teaching!
And before we left the Jail, there were some people asking our name, they said that they wanna pray for us EVERYDAY!!! WOW, i felt so so ENCOURAGED. Hearing that there is someone willing to pray for me EVERYDAY! I believe them!
So far, there were 7 salvation that we have seen here in Olongapo city. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!! Isn’t it AMAZING guys!!!
We still got 11 weeks left for outreach or 77 days left
I am so EXCITED!!!
Aren’ts YOU?!!
December 25, 2008
Merry Christmas everyone!!!
I hope you have a wonderful day, every moment of it!
I just wanna share you my story 3 days ago..
So, it was happenned on 22 december 2008 around 00.30 in the morning..While i was walking home the girls from the base to their dorms, we met with 2 aborigin people who (appearantly) were drunk. One of them greeted me nicely, and i greeted them back too, nicely of course. But the girls were freaked out because (probably) of their appearance. And it turned out that the aboriginal guy was offended by the girl’s attitude (freaked out) and one of them were so pissed off and almost smacked them in the face!!!
I was totally freaked out too!!! Didn’t know what to do, i managed to got them distracted and the girls could entered the dorms safely (FYI: it was happenned right in front of their dorms). I was planning to go home right away after that, but i couldn’t because they invited me to sit (on the pavement) with them. Didn’t want to offend them, i decided to sit and have a small conversations with them (it won’t hurted, i think).
They started the conversations by saying that they were christians too, and they asked me like this
How to get back to christ? Which way we have to take?
And you know what? Suddenly i have an INSTANT COMPASSION for them!!! Before that i was totally freaked out!!! What i mean with Instant Compassion here is that i have such a deep, deep love and care toward them!!! Which i didn’t have right before! Holy spirit just putted wisdoms and word in my mouth to deal with them.
And then i asked them if i could pray for them, and the said yes. And i prayed for them! My prayer was that God loves them more than the way i feel for them. I love them because of their genuine heart, warm persons and that they are so friendly. I also prayed to God to heal their heart, give them a new heart of flesh. Before i finished my prayer, they’re started to cry and weep. At those moment, i felt that there is a deep, deep need for love in their life. Wanting to be respect and treat like a normal people and not like a freak. Yeah, i felt that that’s what they need.
After the prayer, i said goodbye to them. I hugged them, big hug! And they said to me “God the father, the son and the holy spirit bless you brother!” It was so encouraging, even just a simple word but means a lot to me. Seeing that they feel so blessed was made my day!!!
I am so excited for them and can’t hardly wait for the outreach to come!!!
I just want to let you all know that i will be leaving to manila on 27th of december 2008. It would be great if you could put me and my outreach team in your prayer. Please pray for:
Thanks guys, have a wonderful days in the end of 2008!
Blessing from Perth, Ericko.
December 20, 2008
Wednesday morning, 17 December 2008 – 10.00am.
All of us, the MC DTS students was having a prayer time with the YWAM Perth’s Base Director, Shirley Brownhill. She intentionally asked us couple days before to give thought about stuff that God put in our heart, our struggles and so on.
I got the 2nd turn, my friend Andy Chee from Singapore got the 1st turn.
My struggle was, I was strucked by the teaching about relationships. Our speaker said that,
How much we love others is depend on how much we love ourself
And I said to myself on the other day,
Do i love my self? I am not sure that i love myself. How do you define loving yourself?
When my turns came in, Shirley prayed for me.. And i was crying and crying eventhough she hasn’t spoke any word.
And then she spoke to me (as far as i remembered),
Father carries you on His shoulder, and from now on you could see the way he see. You could see the decisions that he makes. You’ll be like a little boy who holding on to Father’s head.
Father God want you to promise Him one thing, that you will love yourself everyday.
The last sentence from God was, “You are LOVED, and now you can love.”
And..
I wrote a song about this revelation..It goes like this,
I AM LOVED. Written by Ericko Tandayu
VERSE
You carry me on your shoulder, Father. I cling on you, holding on to, Your love.
PRE CHORUS
I can see what you see, I can feel what you feel, I can see through your heart.
CHORUS
Now i know what’s love about,
Now i see the way you see,
Now i feel what’s in your heart,
You loved me, you loved me
BRIDGE
I am loved, i am loved, i am loved by you (repeat 2 x)
I love you lord, i love you lord, i love you lord, i love you lord (repeat 2x)
…………………………………………………………..
For those who would like to LISTEN to the songs (which i thought is BEAUTIFUL) you could browse to my FACEBOOK Profile and CLICK PLAY BUTTONS on the MP3 PLAYER applications located on the BOTTOM LEFT of my wall. But you need to REGISTER FIRST. It’s FREE.
YOU ARE LOVED, therefore YOU CAN LOVE…
December 13, 2008
At YWAM Perth we have a weekly activities called “Evangelism Night”. You can tell what is it all about by looking at it’s name.
Yeah, we are doing evangelism every week to a particular places. We learn to be an effective persons to share the gospel to the communitiy of Perth.
The Evangelism night is held every thursday night. Last Thursday we went to the Cottesloe Beach (i forgot it’s name). After we arrived, all of us were 11 people. They splitted us into 5 team, 2 persons per team, except mine 3 persons
We prayed before we start walking through the beach, asking God for directions. And then i felt so strongly in my heart that God wanted me to go LEFT. I followed it.
Turn Left
After we walked 25 metres, God spoke to me again saying
“Wait!”
Right at the 1st bench that we passed.
But i didn’t stop and kept walking. We sat on the next bench after.
Bench
Not long after that, God said “You are waiting on the wrong positions. Go back”
We went back to the 1st bench and wait. I hates waiting, and i was being impatient. So, we prayed about it.
Right after we prayed, a man and his cute dog came to talk to us (i mean, a lot of people walks on th beach). It turned out that he is an atheis. We talked and talked, sharing about life. He is single and 50 yrs old something. WOW!
It was a good conversations that we had. He’s a good persons with warm and tender heart. It seems like he has been talked to christian people a lot of time about God and christianity. He said to us “I feel i was born as an atheis. It was meant to be”
We shared about our fith to God and how we ended up believing him. But, yeah he seemed having no problem at all. So after we said good bye, i kept praying for this guy,named Brad, so that God will reveal himself to Brad.
One thing i learned (again) was
It’s not about me who saved people, it’s about my obedience and availability to be use and be led by the spirit. The result is his idea.
…………………..to be continued
December 6, 2008
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My G.O.D is B.I.G,
My G.O.D is B.I.G,
My G.O.D is B.I.G,
My GOD is BIG!!!
I got my money for school fee and outreach fee!!! All of it AU$7,100!!! And also i got EXTRA money AU$1,000!!!
ALSO, my brother, Michael got his money tooo AU$ 7,800. But you know what, God is AMAZING!!! Someone just gave Michael AU$ 1,600 although he’s already got all his money!!!! OH WOW!!!
We would like to say thank you to all of the supporters and friends who has prayed and supported us, may God bless your obedience abundantly
By the way, week 8 and 9 has passed by….. On week 8 we learned about Spiritual Warfare, Dean Sherman was teaching our class through 10 yrs old video..It was interesting lectures. This guy really got something to share indeed! One things that stucked in my heart was “Jesus died to TOOK BACK the AUTHORITY that DEVIL HAS TAKEN from MAN. And Jesus gave the AUTHORITY back to us, man.”
And then week 9 came along. It’s all about “Submission and Authority”
On this session i learned to gave away my right and submitting my life to Jesus COMPLETELY. Cause when it comes to life (family, marriage, etc) i began to DENIED Jesus as Lord and King in my life. I acted as though he wasn’t exist in my life. For example, i have such BIG DESIRE in my heart to see all my family members got saved and discipled in Jesus. And do you know what i did? I was acting like i’m the only who could do the job, saving all my family members and did not give Jesus any room at all for being Lord in my life. It was sooooooo HARD to let go my RIGHT and completely SUBMITTED to Him in this area. BUT, i MADE IT through!!! YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! God’s grace is always NEW EVERY MORNING!!! And on the last day of the lectures, we made a commitment to ENSLAVE our life to Jesus as a SLAVE by taking off our sandals and shoes (because SLAVE on Jesus’s time was barefoot) the whole day!!! So after we the lectures finished we wondering around shoeless
There were some interesting story during this week. God spoke to me to give away ALL MY EXTRA MONEY which is AU$1,000 to someone on my outreach team. I was so sad at first because i thought i will use those money for buying my NEW LAPTOP. But then i remembered that God HIMSELF wanted to give me a new LAPTOP, so i decided to believe HIM instead doing my own way. I gave away my money with JOY
Not only money, God told me to give away my watch also to someone in other DTS class. By the time i was about to gave away my watch, someone just came around and gave me HIS WATCH!!! WOW!!! I was shocked!!! At rushed i gave my watch as soon as possible. And then the Lord spoke to me also to give away my EXTERNAL HARDISK to one of my friends also. Pheeeew, i was saving this external hardisk of mine for my new laptop also 
But i learned to be obedience. So i gave it away. You know what? by the time i gave it away, i felt SO MUCH JOY in my HEART!!!
…………………………………………………….
Friends and supporters, my journey is not over yet. In fact it will keep going and going no matter what. So, i will need your pray to keep me on track on this journey. Here are couple thing that you could pray for me:
So, that’s my story so far. I will keep you all updated as soon as possible on the next week.
Blessing from Perth,
Ericko and Michael
November 28, 2008
First of ALL, some of you might not know that one of my younger brother, Michael Tandayu, is doing his DTS too in Perth along with me. He’s doing regular DTS (Discipleship Training School) while i’m doing Megactites DTS.
Next, i just wanna let you know that we (me and michael) did not have a good relationship to one another. Basically i’m the one who did not treat him the way a brother it should be. I oftenly judged him with his behavior and his life. I couldn’t accepted him just the way he is. Everytime we hang around together, we could not just have those quality time together as brothers, like just having fun, enjoying each other, etc. And that made him (michael) took a distance everytime he felt wanna talk to me. It was so sad
The story began two days ago (26th Nov’08) at 10.30pm, one of my friends, Gert, from Holland came to my room with him. He told me that Michael was having a hard time about communicating his newsletter to friends and supporter. Shortly, me and michael talked about it. And then the conversation ended up to repentance to each other!!!!!!!!! It was AMAZIIIIIIIING!
I asked his forgiveness for the way i have been treated so far. We HUGGED each other LIKE NEVER BEFORE!!!!!! NExt thing that i know was God putting words in my heart for him. And I said to him,
My precious Son, i love you just the way are. I want you to know that you do not need to worked hard to get my attentions. You always get my attentions. I love the way you talk, the way you smile, the way you make jokes, the way you sing, laugh and just the way you are, i love it! You don’t have to be look good or trying so hard to be perfect in my eyes, because you are perfect in my eyes…….
Finally, we prayed for each other!!!!!!!!!!!
Boy, God is AN AMAZING GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are so happy!!!!!!!!!!! Also ot’s the first time we say I LOVE YOU to each other before we went to sleep.
November 25, 2008
I had this SUPER PERSONAL experienced with my GOD, Jesus, the loving father that is worthy of all my life and love
At first i was not willing to share my experienced because it’s so personal for me..And then i felt like that God wants me to share this and not to keep it for myself. So here i go
On 17th November 2008, approx. 9.00pm just before the speakers of our class, Ari Sloots, finished his teaching about “Lordship”, i felt a STRONG God’s presence in me!!! And i just couldn’t held my tears, and there they were, the tears started to come I wept (i have no reason to cry, but God’s presence just so beautiful!!)
And then 10 minutes later after the lectures finished, i went back to the dorm. I decided to spent more time with the lord on the terrace of the dorm. I picked my friend’s guitar, andy, and then i had this AMAZING quality time with GOD!!! I said to God like this,
Hi God, how you doing?…. How does it like being a God?……… How was your day?.. Are you having a bad day or good day today?…
How’s the dinner and the lunch today?…………….., and others human stuffs that i asked him.”
You know what??????? Before i could ever finished my line i felt A WARM LOVING PRESENCE of FATHER GOD around me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Isn’t it AMAZING!!!!!!! And I was just keep weeeeeeeeping like a baby!!! I felt so LOVEEED by the FATHER!!!!
And I had this revelation that God is a person too!!! In fact, He is a person too, like us. Cause we were created in His image and His likeness (Gen 1:26).
He loves to be treats like a “human” being too!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!! It blew my mind! God loves being loved and asks about his day, simple question that we oftenly says to friends or family around us.
Well, that’s my personal experienced or i could say, my intimate experienced with God the Father.
How about you friends? How would you like to treat your God like? Keep seeking JESUS and you SHALL FOUND HIM!
Blessing.
November 22, 2008
Hey there people!!! I’m back again!!!
How you guys all doin? I’m doin SUPER GREAT here in Perth! Thanks for your prayer, i’m enjoying my journey here..
I’m writing to you all my little update here
It’s been 8 weeks since i left Bandung. Two weeks ago we learned about Fear of the Lord (weeks 5) and Evangelism (weeks 6). John Bills spoke as our speaker on Fear of the Lord and David Gava was speaking to us about Evangelism.
The whole 2 weeks has been THE MOST AMAZING WEEK EVEEER!!!!! I saw some of my struggle and prayer has been answered by God!
While learning (AGAIN) about Fear of the Lord, I was strucked by John’s teaching about getting our OWN REVELATION about KNOWING GOD in every way of our life. It’s one of the most VITAL aspect of knowing GOD. What i learned was that “We need to get our OWN REVELATION (Pewahyuan Ilahi)” Why??? Because PERSONAL REVELATION helps us to see what GOD sees. It helps us to get HIS perspective CLEARLY. It’s like after when we heard a sermon (khotbah), we could still remember what the sermon was all about. But then after one day (or a week), we lost it! Personal REVELATION brings us a deeper understanding on every aspect of our relationship with God. If we are struggling with some particular area of SIN and we keep coming back and forth to that SIN, we NEED to SEE HOW DOES GOD SEE OUR SIN. We need to pursue HIM more and more. I got a revelation about HOW Jesus SUCKED UP ALL of my SINS and yours through his SINLESS SPIRIT!!! It breaks my heart when i knew what God has revealed to me!!! It was sooooo AMAZING!!! Those revelation brought me into a deeper understanding of the Fear of the Lord, which is LOVING God with all my heart and all my life.
Weeks 5 passed by and i’m moving from breakthrough to breakthrough, revelation to revelation!!! That was my prayer
The 6th week was THE BEST WEEK EVEEER!!! All of the students (Oct DTS and MCDTS) has been encountered with holy spirit!!! It was AMAZING!!! Instant healing took place, prophecies happenned (I GOT MY OWN!! YEaaaah!!), and we were ALL coming back to the HEART of WORSHIP!!! What’s all this gotta do with the EVANGELISM topic? It’s all about seeing ourselves the way GOD sees us. Again, PERSONAL REVELATION is needed!!! My GOD is BIG!
BY THE WAY…
We have been told that our outreach location will be take place at:
The outreach fee is AU$ 3,500 AU$ 3,800
FYI, i still have a school fee to be pay too, it’s AU$ 3,300. So the TOTAL will be AU$ 6,800 AU$ 7,100 All of it have to be pay on 9th 3rd December 2008, which is 16 8 days from now.
I am desperately need this amount of money and i keep praying to God for this need. I am trusting GOD to all the upcoming events in my life.
You guys could be supporter on my journey with God in 3 ways:
Here is the SCREENSHOT of HOW to send money to me
YWAM PAYMENT Online
The information that you need to know is:
I will keep you all updated about my next BREAKTHROUGH. Keep on fire guys!!
Blessing,
Ericko +61450425176
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