Riding in a tuk-tuk on the way to one of our appointment, traffic is crazy in this city.
My team recently moved to a new hotel, we are relocating often to visit different parts of the city and to keep transportation costs low. This hotel was only $.50 more a night, per person, but much cleaner than our previous hostel and with AC. Definitely a win/win situation.
We woke up this particular morning refreshed from hot showers ready to go out for the day. Before our first meeting we gathered to hear Nat’s testimony and pray for our sister. One thing that we have made time in our schedules for is getting to know one another. I think this is very important for the sake of team unity.
By 9:15 AM we were out the door, and started on our 10 minute walk to K-Coffee. We met with Thona and Sokhom, and discussed the possibility of partnering Ambassadors for Christ Cambodia with World Race. They have both been involved with AFCI Cambodia since 2005. The organization itself has helped plant over 500 churches. Though many of these churches are now independent AFCI provides leadership training to support these local ministries.
My interest was especially peaked when Thona mentioned that they also have ministries within the prisons and military. I believe these are both important demographics to reach out to and this was the first we have heard of these ministries in Cambodia.
The vision of this organization is to spread the gospel nationwide through local churches. They desire to see revival, evangelism and training for the church. They have answered the call of Jesus in Acts 1:8, “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
This wasn’t the first of our meeting and it’s not the last either. When we arrived in Cambodia we had no contacts, but our job was to connect with new ministries to partner with future teams. We began with prayer and then we started reaching out to different churches. With the various leaders that we have met in just 2 weeks we have seen that over a 1200 Christian church have been planted in here since the Khmer Rouge Genocide (I will be writing about this in my next blog).
We have also already visited an orphanage, we are going to see a school today, and we will visit a daycare for disabled on Monday.
I can truly say that the gospel is here. Many have heard the call of Jesus and many are obediently living for the glory of God to see his kingdom come on earth!
