If you never read another word I write from this trip, read this blog. It’s that important to me.
My team (Ashlie, Nicole, Amy, Susan, Emily) & I have lived with a “family” in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for a few weeks. Just long enough to catch a glimpse of their burdens & their dreams. Just long enough to realize we needed to share their stories with everyone we know. We asked our new brothers & sisters to write letters to you all, asking for prayer.?
Education is a struggle in Cambodia. If you graduate from high school, even if you graduate from college, you most likely will not be able to get a good job.
It doesn’t matter how hard you’ve worked. It doesn’t matter how smart you are.
The government is corrupt & the corruption has taken over the medical/educational/etc systems. If you are poor & have no money for bribery, you cannot get a good job. If you have no connections to government officials, you cannot get a good job.
You may be a 4.0 student, but once you graduate, there is absolutely no guarantee that you will be able to earn enough money to put food on the table.
But the Cambodian men & women I know are strong, courageous & passionate for God. Faced with crazy huge mountains of difficulty, they have not given up. Instead, they sacrifice. They strive for knowledge, hunger for education & dream impossible dreams. They believe God has a future for them & they can’t wait to live it. For I know the plans I have for you, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope (Jer 29:11).
Meet Rock & Poulork. You can read the rest of the letters on my teammates’ blogs below. Be inspired. Be moved. And pray your heart out for Cambodia. God wants to make the impossible, possible.
Poulork
Age: 24
Dear brother and sister,
My name’s Poulork. I have 10 people in my family. My parents are good parents, love them so much. I have one brother and one sister died, but all my other brothers and sisters are married. I want you to pray for them to know God because God is a king of us.
I thank God that give me to know him. Before I know God I obey the statues so I don’t know which God is true. And then when I move my study of Phnom Penh I start to know God true, so know him by the paster teach me Bible and I think that life is start to change and I know I start to believe in God. But my family don’t like to believe in God because they think that God is not good to believe and God can’t help us to believe in kingdom. Sometime when I go home they take me to go to pagoda and worship. I want you to help me to pray to God and pray for my exam for money to support my study at university for my English language. Khmer first for me. I think about God because:
I want prayer for the people of Cambodia to know God a lot.
And for the prime minister to change because he’s not a good man. He’s corrupt.
Rock
Age: 17
"Hello sisters! How are you? My name is ROCK. I'm 17 years old. I'm very glade that I have a chance to tell you about my dream. Because I never tell to another people just only GOD that I tell to him every day. I have this dream since I was young. My dream is that, I want study abroad and I want to fly to visit other country. Please pray for me about this my sisters. I hope GOD will make it come true on day by your praying, and I also want to have sister because of my family don't have any sister, only brothers. I have four brothers but my brothers and my parents have been living away from me since I was young. I don't have anythings for you but I have only the word "Thanks your for your praying, sister. I hope GOD will let me to study abroad one day because of your praying. And I’ll pray for you too my sisters. GOD will help you everytime. He will never get away from you, sisters. Because he love you and I also really love you sisters. I wish you to have good luck wherever you have good health always strong never sick, and have good fly when you go to another country. Please pray for me going to study abroad is my dream.
Thank you so much for your praying.
I love you
Please be blessed Sisters
Good bye but not forever GOD will let me see you one day when you go back home.
Always Love from me ROCK."
Read more on my teammates’ blogs!! Email [email protected] to send a prayer or some words of encouragement to Rock & Poulork!
