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Thanks Brisbane CYC!

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Thank you God and thank you to the young people from the Brisbane CYC August Camp for your generous donation of over $900, collected last weekend for Bethezer. You have given with your hearts and your pockets to young people like yourselves, who love God and have chosen to seek riches that this world cannot give. The young people that you are supporting are struggling with many problems. Some of them have lost their mum or dad (maybe both) either directly or indirectly due to the Pol Pot genocide. All have lost members of their extended families to landmines or due to a lack of medical care that we take for granted. They all come from families, which are struggling to supply enough rice from one day to the next just to survive. Their parents are making huge sacrifices so that their sons or daughters can get an education (in Cambodia you need a university degree for nearly any kind of employment other than a factory worker). Many of the parents are forced to live in different parts of the country just so that they can get enough money to eat and provide the $300 a year necessary for university tuition. Often they can only afford to send one child from the family to university, other siblings must miss out or work on the rice farm to help the family.
The Bethezer dorm provides accommodation, water and electricity for the students free of charge but they still have to find the $30 per month for food, clothes, books and other living expenses, as well as their university fees. Most of the ‘dormers’ are studying with the sole aim of getting a good job so that, eventually, they will be able to support siblings, or other children from their village, to gain an education. Their commitment is selfless and extensive. Their days are full of study…when they are not at university they are studying the Bible with us at BEC or completing any course they can find to add to their skills.
The places at the dorms are provided to those who have a desire to learn about God or are already Christians. They have the opportunity to study God’s word with us for about seven hours a week at various classes designed to fit in with their uni times! Just this morning, at 6am, we were greeted at the dorm by about 25 eager faces ready to learn more about the promises to Abram! This is a truly wonderful opportunity for us to teach them about the riches that God promises…in a country where “western” values are being imposed at an alarming rate via television and technology!
Thank you again to those beautiful young ones…and indeed all who have been able to support this work. We hope that many of the young people will be able to come to Cambodia in December for the Bible School and experience the amazing harvest that God’s word is ripening in this beautiful country! Thank you God…
Lynne and Steve (Borng Thom)

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