Cambodia Update
God is at work in Cambodia in amazing, if not startling, ways.
Disciples Church in Durres, Albania and her sister church Stopsly Baptist in Luton UK sent a team to Cambodia to work alongside their Cambodian colleague Bunna Yin. The team spent 12 days in May visiting churches in four Cambodian towns and villages. Rudina and Manjola from Disciples Church Albania headed up the work of the mobile hearing clinic -- issuing 48 hearing aids in total. Audrey Jose and Neil Mattocks of SBC were particularly busy with hours and hours of teaching, and Abraham and Ajoke Adeyeye, also of SBC, spent many hours praying with people.
One woman's life was changed dramatically through the hearing clinics. After being given a hearing aid, the team shared the gospel with her and told her of the God who gave himself to redeem her. This was the first time she'd heard the Good News. She returned the next day to hear more. She believed made a profession of faith that day. When God changed her heart, he also healed her ears. After her profession, she began to hear properly, pulling off her hearing aid saying, "I don't need this anymore. I can hear!" All were amazed and gave thanks to God for the wonders he had done.
‘I had dead ears. I came yesterday and could not hear. Now I can hear, and
hear the truth. My heart opened yesterday when my ears were opened.'
The team took part in the baptism of two believers, including teaching on the sacrament of baptism. Ra Li is a blind 18-year-old young woman whose family abandoned her and who was taken in by Pastor Samon in Posat. The team left a gift to provide her with an audio New Testament in Khmer language though Ra Li had already memorised an impressive amount of the Bible from having people read to her. Chan Thon, a young husband and father, was also baptised. Chan Thon. a former gangster, has been brutally persecuted by local soldiers and left locked in a bird cage designed to hold poultry in the hot sun for hours at a time. Chan Thon plans to start the first church in a town in his home province.
Pastor Samon in Posat has taken in 3 abandoned or orphaned children to care for them -- Ra Li, (blind girl, age 18, who was baptised), Sok Chea (HIV orphan, aged 6), and Si Na (orphan, aged 9). Last year, Radstock encouraged Pastor Samon to consider a rice export business to help him survive. This advice has helped him feed his family and support his church. In gratitude, Pastor Samon gave a gift of about £7/$14 as a tithe of thanks.
Please join us in giving thanks for all that God is doing in Cambodia. If your church would like to explore connecting with church planting efforts in Cambodia, contact Brian Jose at .
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