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.

July Updates

Tropang Tem and Sakada Village

We recently started an English outreach class for children and youths in Tropang Tem Village. Everyday Saturday, about 35 students attend the class. Many of them had prayed to accept Christ.
About 12 of these kids are going to another school in another village about 3 Km away from Tropang Tem this year. They are in need of help for bicycles for transportation. One bicycle cost US$35.00.

There are about 45 adults, mostly women attending the fellowship regularly. There was no raining for the month of July  in Tropang Tem village. Every Saturday we pray for rain. God had answer our prayer, every time after we left the village, it rained.

Unlike Tropang Tem village, there was a few heavy rain  in Sakada area. So all the adults are busy with their farming. The last two Saturday in July and early August very few adult came for the fellowship. Our team went to visit them at their farms to pray for them.
Some families are facing food shortage for this farming season. We want to thank a friend from Singapore for helping with some food packages for them.

Children are having their long vacation now. They will only go back to school on the second week of September. About 20 children come regularly to the children program.

Our teachers from the Mustard Seed School go to the villages twice a month to work with children. We praise God for their commitment.

Please Pray:
1. For sick people at Tropang Tem
2. For more rain in Tropang Tem so that people can do their farming in time.
3. For the shelter for English class and Fellowship at Tropang Tem.
4. For protection for people in Sakada village.
5. For clean water, a pond is needed in Sakada.

Church Planting

  We have started 2 new churches and a preaching point. These two home churches and the preaching point were started about 5 months ago. Peoples in these villages have never heard the gospel before. On my first trip in March 2011 with a group of pastors I talked to one of the families in one of the villages about God. They were very interested. They agreed to let us visit the village again. So I started to go to the village every Saturday. On my second trip, I was just shared with them my faith, what I believe. I also told them about my life. The owner of the house listened very careful to my testimony. Later on I discovered that he was a soldier. He liked to listen to my story. So we have common experience. Now this man open his house for our meeting every Saturday.