If there is one thing I learned through our ministry this month it is the power of prayer and the hope that comes alongside big, crazy prayers.
Because God answers prayers of all sizes.
Our Cambodian brothers and sisters were praying some huge prayers with a child-like faith that gives me so much hope for both myself and their futures. God never puts a cap on our prayers. He loves it when we recognize His power and have the faith to bring ridiculous requests to Him. It gives Him a chance to show-off and reaffirm His constant presence and love for us.
So we asked our new fam to write letters of their prayer requests so that all of you can be praying with us.
When we mentioned that there would be hundreds of people reading these letters and praying for them, they got the biggest smiles on their faces and for a second it seemed as if they had hope that anything could happen.
So let's make it happen.
Let's pray for them like nobody's business. If you want to write a comment or send a message of encouragement to them, we can make sure that it is passed on to them. They are hungry to receive any sort of love and letter of encouragement you have for them, so let's give our Cambodian brothers and sisters some hope that will fill them up for their future and let them know how loved they are.
Name: Sokny
Age: 14
Favorite moment: Playing soccer with him and some other boys on the roof in the rain.
Fun Fact: He thinks he is hilarious when he cheats during UNO. So we switched to a more appropriate game of B.S or "white lie".
Dear The Son and Daughter of God,
I'm very exciting that I can write the letter to all of you. My name is Sokny. I'm 14 years old. I"m from Cambodia.
I have some prayer. That I want all of you pray for my family because they don't believe in Jesus. Sometimes I try to tell them about the Good News but they always disagree and second I want all of you pray for Cambodia. Cambodia is a small country so many peoples in Cambodia don't believe in Jesus. I very love my country that I want all of you pray for my country and I want all of you pray for myself.
I really want play guitar to serve Jesus and pray for my future. I want to be a doctor and I want to work with all kids in the world and help make there lives better. Thank you in advance for read my letter and pray for prayer of all of you pray at God by your hart by your faith God He will reply Soon. God loves all of you and He will have a plane for all of you and talk all of you go with Him and live with Him. So thank you again. God blesse you and loves you very much. Good bye and have a Good Luck all the time. Sorry my writing is not Good.
From Sokny
Name: Rithy (our ministry contact)
Fun fact: In this picture we are in the village and Rothi is getting rid of a massive spider in the squatty potty that almost caused some serious accidents.
"I grew up in the orphanage. I accepted Jesus while I was there. When I was 15 I was baptized by a Christian Cambodian pastor and started teaching Sunday school. When I was 17 I started teaching youth worship and being a youth leader. When I was 18-20 I started preaching and leading worship.
Then I left the orphanage in the province and applied to work in Phnom Penh through the Korean organization. I saw children on the road and I told them to come in my house and I would feed them. I have a dream, I start praying, we start orphanage. At first we have 15 children, then we have 30. Until 2013, then we closed it. In the future we are planning to have the church ministry. It is still my dream to have a church ministry.
We want them to pray for the church ministry of Cambodia. So we can have church worship and have ministry evangelism and help the children to know Jesus. We need a real location for the church so we don't have to move everywhere. It isn't strong for people accepting Jesus because they cannot follow me everywhere I go. We need one base.
We want a church in Phnom Penh and a branch of the church to do village ministry.
Pray for stability. For God to give us dormitories where the boys and girls from the orphanage can stay. And pray that God can prepare us the way so that they can have a stable life."
Name: Mai Mai
Age: 4
Favorite thing to do: Other than pick on baby Paul and cause trouble – Pretend she is a ghost and paint her nails 5 colors at once.
Best quote of the month: "I look up to the girls that live with us."
Mai Mai's father loves to work in the rice fields and drops Mai Mai off to live with Rothi so he can work more. I pray that Mai Mai grows up and feels so loved by the people around her. That she receives education and precious friendships. I pray that her soul is filled with kindness and she is always treated with gentleness.
That her laughter is contagious always and she finds hope and joy through Jesus all her life.
To read the letters of the rest of our brothers and sisters check out the blogs of my teammates:
