OK, so in my previous blog I wrote about what we are doing
this month and I said how our church is about 80 young people (30 years old and
younger) crammed in this small room with the overflow in the hallway.
The reason mostly everyone is younger than 30, is because of
the genocide that recently happened here. It’s a long story, but 80% of the
population is under 30 years old. It was so amazing to see all these young
people on fire for the Lord and they are already leading worship and the church
service by themselves! And they teach the children, so they are already rising up a generation
to take their place! It’s sooo legit!!!
[***if you are younger
than 15 years old, I would appreciate it if you don’t read this next section.
It’s graphic and I do not think it is appropriate for you to read. If you want
to read the rest, get an adult to read it with you to help explain what
happened***]
I want to write more about the genocide because it really hit me hard :'(
It’s a long story. I really don’t know what to write, but I’ll try to explain it quickly. Ok, this huge high school was overtaken and was turned
into a place where they questioned people, tortured them, and ‘housed’ them in
cells. The reason it hit me so hard is because all this stuff took place in
classrooms. A classroom turned into a place where there was a chair for the
person to question the person that was laying on a metal bed frame with a car
battery hooked up to them. Classrooms were also turned into cells: 9×3 brick or
wooden man-made cells. As a teacher, this
was so tough to see in a school. People (infant
to elderly) were here for month and months, and horrible things happened to
them and then they were taken away to the ‘killing fields’ where they were
brutally killed (without using guns) and buried in mass graves. It was so sad
;_;
There is so much more that I want to say…but here is my
point: Cambodia is such a young country. They are rebuilding what had happened
to their previous generation. They are not giving up. They are building up
themselves AND the generation that is below
them! They are taking up responsibility
