Joining Army Of God (AOG), Gereja Mawar Sharon (GMS) Jakarta

At August 2021, we were invited to join a newly-formed Connect Group (church cell group community) at Gereja Mawar Sharon (GMS), which may also be known as the Mawar Sharon Church in Australia as well as the Rose of Sharon Church in Singapore.

However, this is not the very first time we’ve joined such a cell group, as we have joined another group from one of the leaders at GBI ROCK / ROCK International Ministries over the last 2 years.

To make things clear: Army of God (AOG) itself is a youth revival service at GMS, while the equivalence of “sunday school” is the Eaglekidz. Meanwhile, Connect Group (CG) is a cell group community (usually 5-15 members) formed by the church.

An unexpected invite.

A few days before joining, we were stunned by sermons from two, specific churches in the United States: Transformation Church and Elevation Church. We even planned to join their community, despite those huge timezone differences where early morning in the US means late night in Indonesia, hoping to find and have a greater community (e.g. Elevation’s eGroup) from the US and worldwide.

Then a stranger contacted us through Instagram, looking for new, current, and late BINUS University students to join their own Connect Group. The group is currently lead by a BINUS alumni who have just graduated this year! As usual, we are cautious for these kind of invites as there were cases where multi-level marketing (MLM) businesses are inviting BINUS University students in a similar way.

Long story short, we’re already here. And yes, this is an official Connect Group group in GMS, as what we can show it on the official GMS Church app (Android, iOS):

Q: Hey I’m part of Connect Group too. Can I get in touch with you?

If your Connect Group is based on GMS Jakarta (Central Park Mall) or GMS Tangerang (LivingWorld Alam Sutera), you can contact your CG leaders to “say hi to Reinhart from CG AOG 61”!

But if you are from a different GMS location (e.g. Surabaya), they might haven’t aware of the Connect Groups from GMS Jakarta yet. If that happens you can still contact me through many other ways.

Oh yeah just like usual we’ve registered that lovely ubiquitous reinhart1010 username on GMS Church account (not to be confused with the older MyGMS app). In case that the app receives new features that lets members to chat and connect with each other you can use this exact same username!