Empowering Women for Discipleship

      Our churches are not men free zones but very few men are at our regular worship and Bible studies. Most of the members are women, youth and children. In some villages, the men migrated to other places, mostly Thailand; and some work at the fields.

     

The women in Cambodia play a very important role at home, especially the village families. They spend most of their time with their children at home and at the field. They don’t normally travel far. They are considered weak by the society.

    We praise God for sending more women to our churches. They also bring their young ones with them when they come to church. Because of their influence at home, we hope they will also play important role in disciple their children.

    Most women in our churches don’t read and write. We need to enable them to fulfill their role in discipleship. Please pray for literacy classes that will start in January 2017 onward.


Mustard Seed School - Students in Need

Sambath and Reaksa (picture on the left) came from a very poor family. They are cuisines. They love studies. On the day they were accepted to MSS, they were so excited. They hope education will help them to have a better life. They don’t want to wonder around looking for wild fruit and vegetables to sell them in the market to make a living.

MSS exist to seek to fulfill this kind of purpose and need. Many other kids like them are in our school. They need your help!

Youth Ministry 

One big challenge the youth are facing right now is job seeking. We have more and more youth from the villages moving to town and cities to get education and find job. Some of the youth in the village we work with are also moving to town. Many of them will finish high school soon and some of them will be moving to town to look for job and study in the university.

Most students drop off from school at a very early school year. Very few continue to high school. This year grade 12 state exam, only 13 students from Svai Leo district high school passed. 

Moving to city/town give them higher chances to pass state exam and continue to university. As they move to town, they need place to stay. So please pray for the need for students hostel and scholarship

Please Pray for Us! 

•             Please pray for our financial need for ministry
•        We are in need of two motorbikes, one for the youth ministry and one for village church planting ministry.
•        Many children fall sick; dengue fever, flue and diarrhea. Please pray for healing and protection.
•        Please pray for the Mustard Seed School – the number of students has dropped a lot this year. 
•       Please pray for our need for the livelihood & Community Projects.  

Prayer Letter/Ministry Updates

Greeting from Cambodia! Thank you so much for standing with us in prayer and supports over the years as we work with our Cambodian team among the villagers in different villages, bringing the Good News of Christ to the land that desperately needs the Gospel.

Please join our support team! Please support us through prayer and financial support.

Please let us know if you would like to receive monthly prayer requests. If you would like to provide financial support, please also contact us, we will send you the details. Here is our email address: mustardseedcam@gmail.com or lunsophymss@gmail.com

Prayer Requests/Answers to Prayer

1.  Praise the Lord for rain. It has been so dry in the past months. People were facing clean water shortage critically. But God hears our prayers. There was downpour in most of the villages we work with.

2.  Thank God for bringing more children to the Mustard Seed School. And we also thank God for the teachers who have strong commitment in reaching out to the students and their parents.  

3. We also want to thank God for bringing more women in Sakada village to church.  

4.   We praise God for answering our prayer for more computer laptops. A bank in Singapore has donated a big number of laptops computers. And we want to thank individual and organization for helping, financially with the restoring and replacing some spare parts of the laptops.

5.   Please pray for teacher Yuwath as she lead the teachers team and staffs in running the Mustard Seed School.

6.  For the past few years, pastor Sophy has been traveling to many villages with his team to bring the Good News to the villagers. People in most of these villages have never heard the Good News before. Please pray for safe travel!

7.  IT has been a great challenge for us financially in the 

past years, as we don’t receive enough support. The work 

is much greater but resources are very limited. So please pray for us for this need! Please join us in financial support for this work. Your contribution will enable us to reach more villages.

8.   Please pray for our need for motorbikes. We need two motorbikes for our work. One for one of our pastoral team members and the other for general use.

Thank you for being partners in prayer. We really appreciate you supporting us. As the Gospel is going into new areas, we NEED your prayer cover us and over God’s Work.

Grace and Peace to you! Thank you! – Sophy & Yuwath and family

GO INTO ALL CONNERS OF THE WORLD

TROPANG TEM AND SAKADA CHURCH – GO INTO ALL CONNERS OF THE WORLD

God’s love has no boundaries. It doesn’t matter where you are He will find you.

            Tropang Tem and Sakada village are far from Siem Reap town (65Km and 85 Km). We never expect to be in these villages. My prayer was for God’s direction to nearer villages to share the gospel and plant churches but that was never happened. After praying for two years, the Lord led us to a remote village of Svay Leo district, around 90 Km from town. We met an old Christian man who used to serve in the army of the Khmer Rouge. At first I couldn’t believe that he was a Christian. He looks very fierce and unfriendly. As we began our conversation I became to realize that God has really transformed this man. We talked about anything, from our experience as soldiers to how we survived the war. We got connected very well as we shared some similar experiences in our lives.

           

            When we were about to return to town, I told the man that I would like to come back again to  So we began our regular visit to the village.

explore the possibility of starting a church in a village around the area. He was happy and asked if I

would like to visit his friend in a village nearby. We agreed to his request and went to visit his friend, Mr. Bun who was also a Khmer Rouge soldier. We spent about two hours at the new village. At first only family members of Mr. Bun was presence. After a while other people also came. They were so interested to hear about Jesus as they had never heard about Him before. As it was late, we said goodbye and returned to town. Before we left, I asked the people there, especially Mr. Bun if we could come back again. He said he would love us to return to his village and tell him and his people more about Jesus.

God healed the hurt and reconciled the villagers

We have noticed that only people from one part of the village came to Mr. Bun’s house to attend the Bible studies and fellowship. We didn’t know why and was not intended to ask anything about that yet. As one year has passed we feel that we should reach out to more people in the village rather than just Mr. Bun family and his neighbors. So we organized a Christmas program by inviting everyone in the village to come. We were not sure if they would turned up. As we were preparing for the program on the day, we saw people started coming, and 95% of the villagers turned up. We had a good time together even though there was some disruption from the government police. We got connected to more people and was invited to visit their homes. As we began to talk to more people in the village, we realized that the villagers are divided into three sections, the old villagers, the new comers and the former Khmer Rouge people. The old villagers always keep their wrath toward the former Khmer Rouge people as they felt that they have suffered so much under the rule of the regime. The former Khmer Rouge people also felt the same to the old villagers. Both the former Khmer Rouge people and the old villagers did not feel good toward the new comers as they felt that the new comer came to take their land and destroy their culture.

            As time went by, some people from the old villagers were also accepted Christ and attend the fellowship. People from the new part of the village were also attended the fellowship. But they didn’t sit together. They sing the same songs, worship the same God and hear the reading of the Word of God from the same Bible, they were not together.  It went on for a while until sometimes almost to the end of the second year, God made them sit together.

During the raining season, wind blew from different direction every Saturday. Some Saturday when it rain, the wind blew from the direction where the old villagers were sitting. So they have no choice but move toward where the former Khmer Rouge people were sitting and sat among them. The next Saturday, wind blew from where the new villagers were sitting, and the new villagers had to move to where the old villagers were sitting and sat with them. This happened the same to the former Khmer Rouge people. Slowly, without realizing they sat together as one group of people. They began to talk to each other, shared theirs though and had fun together. God healed the hurt in them and reconciled them. Praise be to God.

Now see each other as one. They travel on the same road, drink from the same wells. And most of all worshipping the same God.

Now Tropang Tem church attendant is 35 youth, 20 adults and 80 children. I pray that this church will grow stronger and will be the center to reach out to more villages around. We are now reaching out to 3 other villages around the area.

Please pray for us and the congregation of Tropang Tem Church.