Mundolkiri

Mundolkiri was quite an experience outside of the great teaching time. Maybe you heard about the roads along the way (well at least they are in process of being paved). However, the shower situation was not ideal for me. Showering outside in someone's backyard with people any where and every where... you can imagine the rest. Needless to say I didn't really shower for 3 days. But I felt really bad because the gal I stayed with had drawn water from the well for me. Here is a picture of the kids nearby washing dishes.

Typhoon

I was in Siem Reap when the tail end of the typhoon came through Cambodia. It rained hard all night and day which flooded the river. The river became so full that the water covered the surrounding streets in some place up to mid-thigh. The pressure of the water felled some really big trees too. We rode in a friends truck and there were some places we dared not drive because of the depth of the water. Remeber the people who have been affected by this tragedy. 8 people died in Ratanakari. Many houses are flooded...

Teaching

I met with the Sunday School Teachers at one of the churches in the city for the first time today. I think it went well but I had some problems recording the teaching for language purposes. I enjoy the group of young ladies and had fun with them but I do not like the fact that nothing starts on time. I had to wait for them to arrive a half hour which is hard because of the heat. I get tired quickly so it was kinf of hard. However they thanked me and want to meet with me again. pray that God will give me what I need to continue this.

Update

I met with V last Saturday and will meet with her again this Saturday. I am trying to get together with her once a week, if that does not work then to meet with her 2 times a month at the least. V has a lot of questions about the Christian faith and really wants knowledge, but pray that God would not only help her to know but that it would reach down deep in her heart and she would desire to allow God to do a transforming work in her life. Our last converstation was about Truth and why we cannot believe many religions. I have real joy in the fact that I can meet with this young lady and that I can share with her what God has done in my life and that she is open to hear all of this.
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Heavenly Father

Today is Father's day and also a day in which one young lady has become God's daughter. She now knows her Heavenly Father. A group of ladies met today to study the Bible and English. Today there were 5 ladies in attendance where we shared the gospel message. We talked about creation-the fall-sin-our need-salvation. One of my friends was able to have a deeper conversation about the lesson with this young lady. Following she decided that she wanted to accepted Jesus as her Savior and to become a child of God. She was led in prayer and then I had the opportunity to pray for her after she recieved Christ. Pray for V and her new life in Christ.

Relating Scripture to Life

Today I met with a Khmer leader at the dorm. The leaders are only a little older than the students but are responsible for them-making sure that the rules are obeyed, the house is kept clean, the students go to school...It is difficult since everyone are adults. This leader has had some trouble with confronting the students, sometimes they do what they are supposed to one time but then fall back. Some students think that since they are adults they can chose for themselves. I encouraged this leader to use scripture how God sets guidelines for us and we chose to obey them because we are His children-we know that God has our best in mind and that if we choose to disobey there are consequences and life has more problems. The same is with living at the dorm there are guidlines, rules and when we decide to live there we are saying we will obey these. There are rules because the leaders have the students best interest in mind, but if they chose to disobey there will be more problems. There we other things I shared from Scripture and this leader went away encouraged and feeling supported in a new way.

PRAYER

Please pray for me to know how to respond to the great financial needs of the Cambodians that I have a relationship with. May God lead and guide me as not only the people I know struggle but most everyone in Cambodia is struggling with poverty. How am I to respond to this issue-I know what Gods word says about taking care of the poor and needy, but the problem is huge-plus I do not want money to be a problem in my relationships with people. So my prayer is for discernment, I want to be blessing others as I have been blessed.

Great Quote

"God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him."
~John Piper

Wednesday Nights

are a great time of encouragement and support for me. My friends Cathy and Kim were at my house last night. We enjoyed a meal together, chatting about our week. We are doing a Bible Study called I saw the Lord by Ann Graham Lotz. So we spend time in God's Word together and then we spend a lot of time sharing prayer requests and lifting each other up in prayer. It is wonderful.

The Heart of a Child

A girl from my home church has really touched my heart with her generousity, love and servant heart. She has taken it upon herself to knit dishclothes - one she sent to me with my friend when she visited. She is knitting them and then selling them for $5 each as a fund raiser to help pay for a flight to visit this Christmas. When I heard what she was doing it brought tears to my eyes because it shows that this girl really has a heart after God. May God bless her.