This year's Christmas is not present with a light glitter and a celebration bell denting. He came in a long silent, among the wooden rods of the beetle and the soil still wet by the flood wound of the bandang as well as landslides in the Forestabolon, Tukka District, Central Tapanuli District, North Sumatra, on November 25, 2025.
In one of the corners of refugees, a simple standing Christmas tree. Ornamen is as a dust-closed ris, but from simplicity that hopes to dissolve the life and faith still choose to grow, although tested repeatedly.
A number of churches seem to be damaged and part of the rest of disaster water. Crack wall, luminous floor, collapsed roof in several parts. But in those places, most people still celebrate Christmas. They step between the wicks, pray calmly, and keep faith living even though the building is no longer intact.
Christmas tree decoration is around the urban flood disaster refugees and landslides in Forestabolon, Tukka District, Central Tapanuli, North Sumatra.
The atmosphere of the Forestabolon GKPI Church affected by flooding and landslides in the Forestabolon, Sub-district Tukka, Central Tapanuli.
The vocation of praise sounds lirih is sometimes vibrating but never really stops. Each prayer temple flows as an application and submission to the Life Owner.
Meanwhile, emergency tents in the displacement of thumb became a place of simple worship for the Christians whose church can no longer be used. As Jesus was born in a simple cage, now Christmas is celebrated in emergency tents. There is his love to disguish the real and flowing in courage, compassion, and in the heart that remains mutually warned.
Christmas in the Forestabolon is not a celebration of abundance, but rather about shades. About the small light that remains on the middle of the dark. About the belief that God never sleeps, even when nature shakes and life feels fragile.
The Church of Kristiani washes the legs before entering the Church of HKBP Ressort Tuka which is affected by flooding of the bandang and landslides in the Forestabolon.
The cross and photo is in the house that is affected by flooding bandang and landslide in Forestabolon, Sub-district Tukka.
According to the temporary records of BPBD Central Tapanuli Regency, the disaster leaves wounds in ten homes of worship. Eight the Protestant church and two Catholic churches are broken from light to weight. The walls crack, the roof is collapsed, but the story of prayer and faith that has ever grown in it still remains living.
In this disaster, Christmas does not lose its meaning. Justru he returns to his simple, sunyi, and full of hopes. Like the palungan in Betlehem, Forestabolon became a born space for the faith tested, but not dead.
Photos and text: Rivan Awal Lingga
Deta pray before leading worship in the HKBP Ressort Tuka Church affected by flooding and landslides in Forestabolon, Tukka District, Central Tapanuli.
The Church of Kristiani went to enter the Church of HKBP Ressort Tuka which was affected by flooding of the bandang and landslides in the Forestabolon, Sub-district Tukka,Central Care, North Sumatra.
Author : Fanny Octavianus
The emergence of emergency tents used as a place of Christmas Mass worship in Forestabolon, Tukka District.
It entertains children with Christmas Mass in Forestabolon.
The volunteers use sinterklas clothing share bingkissing to victims of flooding and landslides in Forestabolon, Tukka District.
The Church of Kristiani went to enter the Church of HKBP Ressort Tuka that was affected by flooding and landslides in Forestabolon, Sub-district Tukka, Central Tapanuli, North Sumatra.
It is one of the areas of the GKPI Forestabolon church that is submerged in the remaining mud due to the flood disaster of the bandang and landslide in the Forestabolon, Tukka District, Central Tapanuli.
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