I would like to start this week’s blog off by saying a massive Happy Birthday to my wonderful beautiful Esther. You are an inspiration and it is an absolute pleasure to be married to you. I don’t know how or why you put up with me but I thank God every day that you do!
Last week I talked about God being the healer and we celebrated by thinking of the protection and healing God had brought into people’s lives. At the end I asked you to remember Pastor Bill Crawford in your prayers, and I want to appeal to you all to keep Bill in your thoughts at all times, remember God is the great Physician, by His stripes we are healed! I also learned today about a lady in her 60’s in New Zealand called Jenny that has an inoperable brain tumour, and the doctors have said there is no hope. Well we won’t accept that, we are told that with faith the size of a mustard seed we can move mountains. So please friends lets join together right now; in fact stop reading for a moment and pray for two miracles, one for Bill and the other for Jenny, lets believe together and prepare ourselves for good news!
Over the last number of weeks we have taken the work in Toul Kaday village in Saang district to the next level by sending Sarak and Sophea there 3 days a week. They are really developing things in many exciting ways.
The English classes are happening twice a day and are being well attended along with music classes with the young men learning guitar, bass guitar and keyboard. Sophea is teaching dance, drama and worship to a group of about fifteen 12-15 year olds. It is so exciting to hear that Sophea’s group is studying the Bible every day and the two oldest girls have made commitments to follow Jesus. Of course Happy Kids club is still going strong every Thursday morning with 80-100 children on a normal week.
A new venture this week has seen volleyball and football starting in the surrounding area; again appealing to the young men and building relationships. I travelled down to the village in time to have church under the house and it was a real blessing to have 17 people present. I spoke on Nicodemus and salvation for us all, how although so undeserving we have an opportunity to be made whole through faith in Jesus. The message was received well and we just keep praying that these hearts will be impacted by the truth which will lead to life changing decisions of faith!
Please keep praying for this ministry along with the brilliant work that Sokhom and Rith are doing in our other village as well. Pray for safe travel for the team and also fruit for their labour, we pray that God won’t stop at changing these communities but we will eventually see Cambodia won for Christ!
In closing we have a date for your diary which gives you an opportunity to support all the work of Elim Cambodia. Everything we do costs money and we cannot express how grateful we are to everyone who supports the ministry here. Bangor Elim Missions team is holding their annual Christmas Craft Fayre on Saturday 14th November from 10.30am – 4pm. This is a great opportunity to start your Christmas shopping and the girls in Be Free are very excited as there will be a selection of Christmas decorations and other craft items that they have made on sale. So pop along, enjoy a great day out and at the same time make a difference to the lives of children and adults in Cambodia!