We’re working for New Life Fellowship in this, our last month of the World Race, helping them out with their website. This is a piece I wrote for their Provincial Churches section about a trip I took with them to do outreach in Snuol.
Snuol, Krati Province, Cambodia—I am sitting in a small wooden house
propped eight feet in the air by stilts. Around me are over 15
Cambodian leaders of New Life Fellowship praying all together in
Khmer. If you have never been in a room filled with believers
praying loudly to God in another language, it is a spine shivering
experince, a foreshadowing of heaven where every tongue will confess
Jesus is Lord.
The leaders are here to pray for the
evangelism being done this week in the Kratie Province of eastern
Cambodia. New Life Fellowship is partnering with Global Ventures , a missions organization run out of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tonight and
tomorrow they are hosting an open air meeting in the small town of Snuol.
Two of New Life’s 62 provincial
churches are in Snuol. In a country where less than 2% are
Christians, 100 believers in a town is a significant amount. This
week, Provincial Churches, the church planting arm of New Life
Fellowship, hopes to make that number even more significant.
Sitting next to me is an old
grandfather. His cheeks are sunken and has only a few yellowed teeth
left, but as he bows his head in prayer, he is beautiful. A few feet
away is a young boy, probably only 8 or 9, bows like the others. The
remarkable thing about what is happening in Cambodia, it is a
multi-generation movement to Christ. In this room the voices of
teenagers combine with those of adults and grandfathers, all praying
together to the Father at once. There are men from the city and men
from the rural provinces, but in Christ they are working as one.
