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As many of you have heard, we are not just having one baptism this Sunday but two! Sithy is going to be baptised also and so we will have the first baptised, married Cambodian couple! They were going to be baptised in the river but the available sites were not very inviting. We have decided to hire a boat for 2 hours on Sunday morning and travel to a nearby island where the water is a bit cleaner. We are anticipating about 20-25 people who will join us. Following the baptisms we will return to BEC for lunch, and then hold our worship service at the usual time of 1.30 in the afternoon to welcome our new brother and sister. We know that so many of you will wish you could be here for this wonderful occasion. Rest assured that you will all be in our thoughts and with us in spirit during this fantastic time.

Gaye enjoyed some guitar playing and we had a great time singing together last time So Veasna visited from the province!

We thought we would launch the inaugural ‘Blog Comp’…to be run each month (or whenever we feel like it). To be a contender for the prize of having your entry chosen and posted on the world-wide web (Cambodia.blogspot) please read on!
You must read the following comment sent to us from one of our contacts at the end of an email. Your mission, should you choose to participate, is to send us your inspiring interpretation of what it means…
“From A little who thirsty want to be apart of God plan.”
All entries must be posted in the comments section of the blog (hence we will get excited because we are getting so much feedback).

June must be the time for weddings in Street 141! We had our second one for the month last Monday and this time we really did get the traditional music blaring from the unearthly hour of 4.30am. Even earplugs could not keep out the force of the monstrous speaker system, deafening everyone within a 3 kilometre radius (and we were right next door)! Defintely a cultural experience!

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Lauren said…
Not sure about that ending quote - i think it may have stumped more than just me by the looks of it. xox
16 June 2008 at 2:24 pm
Anonymous said…
Just got back to reading the blogs after being sick for some months.Glad to hear everything is going so well. Please send our love to all, especially those we have met...
blog comp: "from a little one(small or unimportant person)who is thirsting to be a part of God's plan." Miriam and Don Hewitt
19 June 2008 at 11:06 am
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