Anita Rahma currently lives with her family in the slums of Jakarta, Indonesia. She discusses discipleship, incarnational urban ministry, and loving Muslim neighbors.
Book: Downward Discipleship
Book: Beyond Our Walls
Anita’s high school years were spent as an American TCK in the Philippines. For the past decade, Anita and her husband and two children have lived and served in a slum in Indonesia. She enjoys learning piano, playing in the rain, and devouring good books. She is the author of Beyond Our Walls: Finding Jesus in the Slums of Jakarta and Downward Discipleship: How Amy Carmichael Gave Me Courage to Serve in a Slum.
00:39 - Introducing Anita Rahma
03:22 - Anita's choice to live in the urban slums of Jakarta
03:33 - ...grew up in the US as a child of pastors in a modern Mennonite home
03:49 - ...loving God could not be separated from loving those struggling with poverty
03:56 - ...moved to the Philippines during high school
04:06 - ...God working on her heart - her middle-class life vs the homeless around her
04:27 - ... felt that Jesus was saying that He is with the homeless
04:36 - ...desire to return to encounter Jesus while serving the poor
04:51 - ...in college years, went to Urbana Missions Convention, Servants to Asia's Urban Poor
05:10 - ...God is with the poor; we want to be too
05:24 - ...over 1B people live in urban slums
05:59 - Definition of "slum" and why live there
07:06 - ...incarnation: live in the community in which you are serving
07:21 - ...really experience the community to know their needs
07:38 - ...follow Jesus to serve the poor
07:58 - ...great place to learn the language and culture
08:13 - What in Anita's background helped her connect with impoverished people?
09:12 - ...initially, did not want to leave the Philippines and return to America
09:36 - ...God taught a lot about poverty in America
10:09 - ...felt God calling her back overseas
12:19 - Explanation of "downward discipleship"
12:30 - ...bombardment of messages to seek success
12:47 - ...Jesus sets an example of downward mobility - left heaven for earth
13:21 - ...taking the position of a servant
13:37 - ...a disciple is someone who follows
13:55 - Anita's books
13:58 - ...First Book: Beyond Our Walls: Finding Jesus in the Slums of Jakarta
14:04 - ...Second book: Downward Discipleship: How Amy Carmichael Gave Me Courage to Serve in a Slum
14:09 - ......tying in stories of Amy Carmichael
14:44 - ......the struggle of downward discipleship in the American church context
14:57 - ......discipleship happen overseas in the process of learning
15:05 - How to communicate the concept of downward discipleship to the local church
15:27 - ...moving from the need to control to compassion
15:58 - ...compassion means to suffer with
17:23 - Some of the...
