the national symposium on worship was hosted by jakarta theological seminary on their campus in...

The National Symposium on Worship was hosted by Jakarta Theological Seminary on their campus in August 2014. Pastors and worship leaders came from many

different Indonesian islands.

Seminary students provided musical leadership throughout the conference and, shown here, in the closing hymnfest.

Symposium organizer Ester Pudjo Widiasih (on left) with guest presenters from the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship: Emily Brink, Kathy Smith, and Joel Navarro.

Over 300 students and church leaders attended the conference and worshiped together

70 workshops were offered by 28 presenters from Indonesia, a retired Indonesian missionary from the Netherlands, and three presenters sent by the Calvin Institute

of Christian Worship.

The platform for the Taize service shown here and the entire conference was designed with a humble thatched-roof village hut with an open window to the large Bible that was carried to the pulpit for each scripture reading. The Batik

shawls represent the various islands, denominations and culture groups in attendance from across Indonesia, the fourth most populous nation in the world.