Today I watched Pastor Dave preach for 3 sessions on conflict resolution. He was hoarse when he finished. The adults were church leaders and this was a leadership training conference. The Cambodians are very serious about learning about Christ and the Gospel. The Board of Global Ministries personnal is handling the development of churches here correctly. The Svay Rieng District is made up of 14 churches in this province. They have a definition of what constitutes a church that they are very diligent about meeting. They are developing pastors for these churches and the parsonage that we built gives them the opportunity to move the pastors around. They will move the current pastor to a new place and move a younger less experienced pastor in his place.
Doun Lep received the parsonage and new church because their church blew down. They requested help after building a bamboo shed with the roof and the wind was beginning to damage the shed. The people of the village were so determined to have a church that when the board of missions was given a gift the village had the land and built the new church for this village. The pastor was in the position of living in a shed and that is when they asked our church for the money to build the parsonage. It makes this little village attractive as a training church for new bible students. I have wonderful pictures of the parsonage inside and out but this internet connection is challanging picture posting
Everyone in Cambodia who is Christian is hungry for testimonies, witness, prayers, visits, and they need other types of resources. God is going to do a great work in Cambodia and we are priviledged to be called to be a part of it.
They do not have many written materials in Khmer. Many of the bible concepts do not translate into their language. For example: a prophet is a witch doctor. It will take time to develop the materials they need and for now the oral works best.
Pastor Dave was amazing. I know he was tired from the previous week of work and he was mesmerizing as he lead them thru a 3 session training on identifying types of conflict, looking at solutions for conflict and being yoked with Christ.
The adults were so grateful to have us there, speaking to them. It was amazing.
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