Cambodia
I am happy
to say it is month 9 and this is where we are. For most of you who don’t know
Cambodia is lovely. Seriously. Lovely. Luckily we are here in the rainy season
so it rains everyday! Which is good for us because if it weren’t raining we would
all die from the heat! This place is insanely hot!
We live in a
really small village of about 200 families that for the most part are all rice
farmers. Everyone here is very gorgeous because they are the perfect mix of
Indian and Chinese. (I would like one of these babies J)
We live with
our contact Vuthy and his Mom, Dad, Brother, Sister, Grandmother, and 2
cousins. Vuthy has an amazing story of how he used to be a Tuk Tuk driver and
he started driving for a couple of YWAM-er’s who introduced him to Jesus!! He
then went to Discipleship Training School at YWAM here in Cambodia, where he
had his vision for his mission he now runs!
Vuthy has an
English school where everyday almost 200 children come to learn English and
about Jesus! Most of the families here are Buddhist and do not approve of the
Jesus part, but free English is a huge deal! So they come. Vuthy has completely
changed the Youth here. He is a pretty cool guy if I must say so myself, and
all the kids see that you can be cool and love Jesus! Its pretty awesome to
watch. There are about 25 kids that have come to be really hard core Christians
through Vuthy becoming a Christian and starting this school.
Some
mornings before we start teaching we go out into the village and just see where
the Holy Spirit leads us, and we do house visits. We have prayed healing
over a limp arms and stomach tumors! Prayed over a road that was wiped out by
the rains. And over a few random Buddhist temples.
I have to
say in the beginning of the week I was a little upset about the whole teaching
English thing…. I hated it. Mainly because my English is terrible so how was I
supposed to teach others!?! But then as the week went on I realized that, its
not me who is teaching. Its Jesus. He’s just using my body to show himself to
these kids. And now I am absolutely in love with it. The kids are so willing to
listen and just sit with us and ask us how long we have been Christians (in
English of course). It’s just a really good month. We have no electricity and
no running water (which means…. no showers) and I have to say, this is pretty much the best month of the
race because of the amazing contact Vuthy and these awesome kids.
I would like
everyone to pray for these kids to be more open to learning about Jesus, and
for over the next year we want to see 150 youth come to know our savior, and
for funds for the school to keep flowing in. And for two of our students who
are leaving tomorrow to go to Discipleship Training School TOMORROW! They are
leaving the village to go 2 hours away to school for 6 months! And for the sun to stay away!!!
