I’m in Cambodia for what is, believe it or not, month 5 of my race. Dang, that’s nuts. Anyways, this month me and my team, Refreshe’, are working with an organization called Teen Challenge at their teen boy facility. They work to transform the lives of boys who are addicted to drugs and get them off of the streets. We’re roughly an hour and a half southwest of the city of Phnom Penh in a little village that I don’t know the name of. We’re spending the month getting to know the boys here and teaching English and Bible classes. Along with some village ministries and the inevitable hospital visit to do some prayer and intercession.
There are a large number of people in Cambodia who do witchcraft and become witch doctors. It brings a spirit of darkness across the whole country. There was a woman in the hospital whose husband was a witch doctor and it brought sickness down on her and she was being afflicted by demons. We prayed for her and cast those suckers out. All of her pain disappeared and she decided to give her life to Christ. It was such a powerful moment.
It’s about 100 degrees or more every day along with ridiculous humidity. In other words, we sweat non-stop. But this is amazing and we’re having a great time getting to know all of these boys. We also by some random twist of fate ran into a YWAM outreach team. We’ve started worshipping with them and getting to know them. It’s been so refreshing to talk to new people and get to lift up our voices together in worship. God knows what we needed and has provided so abundantly. We as a team are becoming more and more joy-filled all the time. Growing and learning together. There’s no place I’d rather be.
This is the pond that we get our water from to: wash our clothes and shower.
This is our incredibly small, extremely cramped room. Complete with indoor tents that act as our mosquito nets, packs all over the place, and barely enough room to walk.
And of course one of the totally gangster boys who lives here.
