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Church Planting Ministry:

Tropang Tem

About a month ago, we bought a piece of land for Tropang Tem church. The land was once a minefield,

about 500 mines were discovered, now God had given us this land. During the clearing of the land we also found an unexploded RPG rocket. We hope there is no more mine or unexploded grenade in the land. 

To generate income for this church,  we are also planning to plant some fruit trees and vegetables. Right now we are planting corns and other types of vegetable to test the soil to find out what kind of plant would be suitable for this land. Please pray with us that we will have enough money to build fence around the land. We are also in need of a well.

Because it is located nearer to the last stronghold of Khmer Rouge, Tropang Tem Village was under Khmer Rouge control until 1998. Many of the villagers are former Khmer Rouge soldiers. The commune chief was a Khmer Rouge commander. God had led us to this village for a purpose. 

I only found out recently that there is so much hatred among these people.  The old villagers do not like those who had just moved in to this village. One of the villagers told us that only now that they are able to talk to each other. Now the old villagers and the new comers are able to sit together to worship God. God had taken away hatred and brought unity to this village. 

We are planning to build a multipurpose hall on this land. We hope 

to raise about US$7,500.00 for the building.  A friend in Singapore had indicated that he will donate US$2,000.00 for the building. So we are in need of another US$5,500.00.

 Please pray with us that we will have enough funds for the building. We want to thank our friend, Mr. Larry Wong of Faith Methodist Church Singapore for donating the funds to purchase this piece of land.

Pathway Fellowship

            After the Khmer New Year in April, our Sunday school had shrunk. 

Most of the kids are busy helping their

 parents at home. 

The government is relocating people living along the Siem Reap River to another place. So those who are living along the river are preparing to be relocated. Many of Pathway members are also affected.  We do not know yet whether they will be relocated to the same area. So we are now preparing to start another church where our people will be moving to. Although it is affecting our church but there is new opportunity for new ministry. So please keep these people in prayers.

We want to celebrate and give thanks 

to God with Theara, one of our youth. He is going to university this year. Theara  is from a poor family in the slum area. He was given a full scholarship by the Lioness Club to study tourism in one of the biggest university in Siem Reap. His whole family is happy. Theara is very active in ministry. He goes with us every Saturday to the villages to help teaching English and also leading worship. Please pray for him that he will do well in his studies.  

 

Mustard Seed School

The ground floor building of the Mustard Seed School is completed. We praise God for this great blessing. We had dedication service of the new building in March this year. Now the building is ready for classes. We would like to express our thanks to the Lioness of Singapore for donating the funds for the construction. During the opening of the new building the Lioness Club has also given 10 scholarships to the needy students.   
Students, parents and our teachers are so happy with this new building. Students can 
play happily and safely in school compound 
as it is big enough for them to run around.  

As numbers of students keep growing, we are planning to build two more floors up. We pray and trust that our Father in Heaven will provide what is needed for the second phase building.

 

The Mustard Seed School plays very important role in reaching out to the students, their parents and teachers. Two of our teachers and a youth were baptized two weeks ago. Another 10 youth will be baptized in the next few months, after they 
had finished their baptism class. It is our prayer 
and hope that many more of students will
 come to Christ.   

Needy Students:

The Mustard Seed School is located among the poor communities. Many parents are not able to pay full fee and some are not able to pay at all. This year, 35 students are in need of scholarship for their studies. So far we managed to raise fund for 13 students. We are in need of scholarship for 22 more students.

Prayer Requests:

1.      Pray for all our teachers and staffs for wisdom and commitment.

2.      Please pray for all our students and their parents that they will open their hearts to accept Christ as Lord and Saviour.

3.      Please pray for our discipleship program for the village churches.

4.      As this is a raining season we are facing difficulties in our trips to the villages. Please pray for our need of transportation.

5.      We are planning to construct the second phase of the Mustard Seed School building, please pray with us that we will be able to raise enough funds for the construction.

October - December Updates

Pathway Fellowship Cambodia

This year, Pathway Fellowship is 4 years old and it is

growing well. God is so good!

We want to thank our friends and partners for their
prayers and supports in the past years. Without their
prayers and supports, we will not be able to travel
this far.  Our regular attendant is over 100. Pathway
is also reaching out to a few villages. Out two village
churches are also growing well.

This year, Pathway is focusing on Discipleship
and Training. Please join us in prayer as we seek to make disciples for Christ.

Tropang Tem Church 

Tropang Tem is a sister church of Pathway. Tropang
Tem is a village about 90 Km from Siem Reap town. Many of the villagers are former Khmer Rouge soldiers.
We started a church in this village about a year ago
and this church is growing well. Every Saturday,
about 25 adults, 45 youths and 25 children attend the fellowship.

We are also running English Classes for Outreach. About 40 students attend the class regularly. We are seeking help for teaching  material for the classes. We are also need help for furniture and shelter for this
outreach program.

In December, we had a combine Christmas
outreach for Tropang Tem and Sakada village.
About 250 villagers came. We want to thank
Faith Methodist Church Team for sponsoring
the program. 




Sakada Village

Sakada is another sister church of Pathway Fellowship. This church is also growing well. We've just started another small group in a nearby village. Many of the villagers are alliterated but faithful.

This year, we will focus on discipleship. As many are illiterate, we will have literacy class for our members so that they can learn to read and write. Please join us in prayer for this ministry.









Mustard Seed School

The Construction of the Mustard Seed 

School is in progress. We hope the 

ground floor will be completed in 

about two months. We hope to build 

3 storeys building to accommodate

the fast growing of the school. The

number of students we have now

is 160. And we expect another 50 

more students will enroll in the 

year 2012.

We want to thank the Lioness Club of Singapore for donating fund for the construction of the ground floor. We are in need of another US$68,000.00 for the first and second floor. Please join us in prayer as we continue to raise fund for the next phase of construction.

Christmas Program

This year Christmas program for the
students was wonderful. Students
had their performances and dances
for the first time.

We want to thank the teachers and

staffs for working so hard for 

Christmas programs this year.

We also want to thank Faith Methodist 

Church Singapore Team for sponsoring the programs.

Community Works

Food Packages for Flood Victims
 

265 families of flood victims in two villages received food packages. The packages included one water filter, one mozzie net, 50Kg of rice and one box of instant noodle.

We want to thank Faith Methodist Church Singapore for their kind donation to the people in need.  

Building new houses

Some houses were damaged during

the heavy flood. The Mustard Seed Fellowship Cambodia together with some of our partners raised some 

fund to help repaired and built new houses for those who are badly affected. 

                                                                                                                        

 Each new houses cost between 

US$400.00 to US$500.00. Many 

more poor families are in need 

of help to repair and build new 

houses.

                                                                     

Digging ponds and wells 
Clean water and water shortage
is always a challenge for people in 
the villages. The villagers spend 
lots of money for medication on 

the disease that caused by unclean 
water.

Together with our partners, we helped  digging ponds and wells for a few  villages in Siem Reap. We hope to raise more funds to dig wells and  ponds for more villages. A pond  of 20 meters by 40 meters cost about US$1,500.00 and a well costs around  US$270.00.

      

Prayer Requests:

1.                 We are raising more funds for completing 2 more floors of the Mustard Seed School building. Please pray with us that we will be able to raise another US$68,000.00.

2.                 35 students are in need of scholarship for the year 2012. Each student would need US$20.00 per month. Please pray for God’s provision.

3.                 Please pray for the Mustard Seed Fellowship and all our three churches as we are applying for license.

4.                 Please pray for Pathway Fellowship - we need to move to another place soon.

5.                 Pray for all our teachers and staffs for wisdom and commitment,

6.                  Please pray for all our students and their parents that they will open their hearts to accept Christ as Lord and Saviour.

7.                 Please pray for our discipleship program for the village churches.

8.                 Please pray for our need of transportation.

                                                                                                             

New Year Greeting and Updates

Dear Friends and Supporters,

Greeting in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

As we are preparing to welcome the New Year, 2012, allow me to bring you greeting from students, teachers, staffs and congregations of the Mustard Seed School and the Pathway Fellowship Cambodia.

We want to thank you for your prayer, supports and encouragement in the past years. God is good. He had blessed us and our ministry so much.  We always remind ourselves of how we started our journey about 4 years ago. As we looked back to the past we really thank God for His blessing and guidance. We’ve started as a small seed, and now this seed is growing. The school is packed with 160 students. Our present building is too small; we are building a new building. Our church, Pathway Fellowship Cambodia is growing well. Every Sunday the worship hall is packed with 90 children and 60 adults and youths.  Pathway is now reaching out to two villages and the village churches are growing well.

We pray and trust in the Lord that the Mustard Seed School, the church planting ministry and all other ministries of the Mustard Seed Fellowship will continue to grow and reach many more lives in the years to come.

Once again, thank you for all your prayers and supports. Please continue to keep us in prayer and support as we reach many more people.

May God bless you, your family and ministry.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

In His Services,

Rev. Lun Sophy

Pastor, Pathway Fellowship Cambodia

Director, Mustard Seed Fellowship

August - September Updates

Church Planting

Pathway Fellowship:

Pathway Fellowship Cambodia is still operating without a license as our present place does not allow us to apply for one. We really thank God for the understanding of the local authority and allowing us to be where we are now.

             Pathway is growing, many children and youths come to church regularly.  We will be launching an English Outreach Class for the youth in early November. The classes will be on Sunday evening and will use devotional material as texts. We hope to reach 100 students by May 2012.

Sakada Village: 

There are less people attending the fellowship now as many of the villagers are still busy with their farming. We only able to visit the village a few times in two month as it is flooding here in Siem Reap. It is very difficult to find transportation to go to the village.

A pond is dug in Sakada to keep water for dry season. Sakada village has always been facing problem of water shortage. We really hope the pond will help keep water for the villagers to use during summer. We want to thank Mr. Mok of Faith Methodist Church in Singapore for donating this pond.

Tropang Tem Village:

We also not able to visit Tropang Tem for 6 weeks due to the flood. Tropang Tem is 90 Km away from where we are, so to hire a vehicle  cost us around US$70 per trip. Only 4 wheels truck can go through the flood water. We hope the flood water will be receded  soon so that we can travel to the village again.

          

 Community Works

In our July updates we shared about the need of

12 bicycles for poor students in Tropang Tem 

village. 

             On Saturday, 10th September 2011 

we’ve received all the 12 bicycles and were 

given to the students. The students and their

families were so happy. We are still in need

of another 9 more bikes for 9 other poor 

students.

We want to thank Mr. Khoon Meng Mok of 

Faith Methodist Church, Singapore for donating the 12 bicycles. It is a great blessing to theses kids.

Mr. Mok and his family also helped build a new house for a poor family in Sakada village.  The family of 9 were living in a very bad condition. The aging mother of the family is a faithful member of Sakada church. She comes to the

fellowship regularly.

The family does not have a farm for their own.

They work for somebody else. They moved to 

Sakada village about three years ago. On behalf

of the this family I would like to express my 

gratitude to Mr. Mok and his family 

for providing a warm place for this family to live in.

Mustard Seed School

We want to thank God for blessing the Mustard Seed School so much in the past years. The school has grown fast  and gain lot of trust from students, parents and the community. The school has also reached many lives.

                 As the school grow there is also  need for more spaces. We are having difficulties arranging classes every day. These few month even harder as the ground floor is not usable due to the flooding. We hope to build a new building for the Mustard Seed School soon.

                 In our last update, we asked for pray for the construction of the new building. We have not started the construction yet as we’ve yet secured fund for the building. Our prayer is that we will have enough fund to the construct two storeys building (first phase) to accommodate the number of students we are having now.

We also hope to enrol more students upon the completion of the new building.

The new building will be also used for the office of the Mustard Seed Fellowship and a meeting place for the

Path way Fellowship Cambodia.

 Please join us in prayer!

Siem Reap Flooding

It has been flooding in the past few years in Siem Reap. This year flood is getting worst. On Saturday 10th September 2011, we left for the villages early in the morning. The road from the Mustard Seed School to town was dry but the water level in river was a bit higher than normal day. I thought it was alright. After finishing our work at the villages we drove back to town. It was heavy rain on our way home. As we were reaching Siem Reap town we saw water spilled over to the street. A few minutes later we came to the central point of the flood.

On the 21st of September, one week later, it was very heavy rain through out the night. On the next day, half of Siem Reap town was flooded again and it is the worst of any other times in the past 30 years. The flood continued till now.

Many schools are still closed, many houses are affected. About 120 families in our village are affected and are in desperate need for food and clean water.

Villagers will face more problems after the flood. Shelter, disease and clean water will be the challenge people face. So please uphold these people and all flood victims in your prayer.

If you wish to contribute to help the villagers please contact us. 

Tel: (855) 97 960 6161
Email: sophy@mustardseedcam.asia

Prayer Requests

1. Pathway fellowship

      - Relocation Plan: Pathway is still operating  

        without a license as our present location does not

        allow us to apply for license

     - The flood victims: The villagers are in

        desperate need of food, clean water and  medicine.

2. New Churches:

     Sakada Village 

       - A lot of people are sick,  please pray for healing.

     Tropang Tem Village

      - English outreach class: we are in need of shelter and furniture  for English Outreach class

      - Many children are having high  fever, please pray for healing.

     Beng Mealea Village

      - The group leader is away at his farm for  many months, please pray for him so that he can lead the   

         group again.

3. Mustard seed school

     - Building Project: We have not able to secure fund for the building yet, please join us in prayer.

     - Commitment of teachers

     - Students and their parents

Cambodia Worst Flood in 30 years

    Early September 2011 Mekong
river water had gone up to the level
that worried the government and 
peoples who reside along the river. 
On the 1^st September 2011 Siem 
Reap experience the first flood in 
2011. The water subsided after 
one week and life was back to normal. 
Then there was very heavy rain 
the whole night of the 9^th  of September. 
The areas along the Siem Reap River were flooded. This time the water level was higher. On the 22 another flood affect the northern part of Siem Reap province and as well as the town area. This is the worst one in 30 years. Almost every part of the town was flooded. Many roads were under water and not accessible. The worst one is the road toward Tonle Sap and to my village.

    

    Today, as I’m writing this post, the
flood water in town area is no more 
but the road to my village and part of 
my village is flooding. About 70% of
the people living in my village are 
affecting. Many of these people are
the poor who live in the lower part 
of the village.

Flooding this year is affecting 14 provinces (number of provinces in Cambodia is 24). The media reported that:

-         148 people were killed, among them 52 were children

-         170,000 families are affected

-         270,000 hectares of rice field is affected and 80,000 hectares is completely destroyed.

-         816 schools are closed

-         75 health centres are closed.

    

    Many families are facing food 
shortages and clean water. So 
please keep these people in prayer. 
The Pathway Fellowship Cambodia 
want to extend our helping to people
in the villages around us. So please
help us to reach these peoples.

Flooding in Siem Reap and other provinces

This year, Cambodia is badly affected by flood. All provinces along the Mekong River are affected badly. Today, as I'm writing this post Kampong Cham and Kratie town is flooding. Many people have been evacuated to the higher land.

Yesterday, 22nd September two districts in Siem Reap province were badly affected by the flood. The water level go up 1 metre within an hour. Hundred of houses and farm land are destroyed. About 200 tourist were stuck around Banteay Srey temple but were rescued by helicopter later in the afternoon of the same day.

The flooding is also affecting Siem Reap town badly. The area around the pop street area is flooded. Road from town to Tonle sap and my village is also flooded. This is the third flood with in two months.

Kampong Thom province is worst affected area. Part of road number 6 is flooded. Many people lost their house. The water level is still coming up. 

Please pray for thoses who are affected by the flood. Please also pray for the villagers who are trapped somewhere in the isolate villages around Banteay Srey and Varin district.