Cambodia Bible Education Centre

We are coming up to holiday time in Phnom Penh once again. This week Cambodia celebrates the King's Birthday and next week is a three day holiday for the Water Fesitval. At this time, many people come from the provinces to Phnom Penh and the city comes alive with boats on the river and celebrations including fireworks at night. At BEC we are taking advantage of this time to see some of the countryside while many of our students go to their homelands or have a break with their families. Samee and Lara are planning to head north under the loving care of Loy, to visit Siem Reap for a few days. Steve and I are going to Kratie province to visit the family of sister Nirath and Gaye is going to join us. Marvin will probably be heading off to Kampong Speu province with some of the boy dormers to get a taste of village life. So we are all off in different directions and, God willing, at the end of next week we will resume our lessons at BEC. Vanny is making great progress and getting l...

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well. I was privileged to travel to Cambodia to help with our church, based in Phnom Penh. Steve and Lynne, who I have known since I was at university, we go back a while, we have met in a number of different places throughout Australia particularly when Steve and Lynne and their family and myself lived in isolation. So when God gave me this opportunity to meet up with them again, I thought, fantastic! This was the second time that Steve and Lynne have been based in Phnom Penh. They are a great team. My flight plans were crazy as it involved me flying to Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur then onto Phnom Penh but it saved me over $500 so it was worth it – figure that, you fly extra kilometres and it costs you far less. It was a good opportunity to meet up with David and Ruth Wallace. We had a good catch up at Lazy Moe's, Dave was served the biggest meal I had ever seen in my life, it was called a mixed grill, it should have been called a heart attack wait...

Chum Reap Leah.... Well, we have really enjoyed our stay in Cambodia and we don’t want to leave! We are flying back to Australia this afternoon, God willing. We have spent a very short three weeks here at the BEC and have made so many awesome friendships in that time. We are going to miss everyone here so much when we return to our homes. We have been encouraged by many wonderful people and have learnt from them all. They are all inspiration, and words cannot describ e how much we love them all. We have observed their positive attitudes even though many of them come from some horrible backgrounds. They are so strong and even if we could just develop half of their strength, we would be able to stand firm (something to aim for). We have been uplifted by teaching God’s word and studying with our friends. We are so blessed to have something precious that brings us all together. It has been lots of fun here at BEC. We have had a full house and a lot of laughter in it. We are so jealous of L...

How blessed we were this morning in Phnom Penh to welcome our new brother into the family of God with the baptism of Myna in the Mekong River. Myna's wife joined the small group of brothers and sisters as we shared God's word, prayer and song to celebrate this new life in Christ. Myna grew up in a Christian family and came to study at BEC last year. He has a huge hunger for God's word and owns seven Bibles, all of which he uses to study and compare the message of God's plan with man. He loves to delve deeply into God's words to find the true meaning of the Bible and is not satisfied until he has explored every translation and version available to him. Myna will be a wonderful older brother for this young ecclesia and we are looking forward to sharing the remembrance feast with our new brother today at the Worship Service. It was a wonderful way for our two new fieldworkers, Samee and Lara to meet some of their brothers and sisters here in Cambodia. We are all look...

Teaching at BEC is going full steam ahead at present with nine of us sharing the accommodation here and the workload! Everyone is getting along so well and it is inspiring to find that so many lessons are taking place at once. At times, we are struggling to find quiet corners for yet another lesson. Many of our contacts are bringing friends along, so some of our groups are growing day by day. Everyone is enjoying the early morning starts. The tuk tuk leaves BEC for early morning studies at 5.45 to Bethezer dorms and returns at 8.30. During this time there are three fieldworkers at BEC teac hing other groups. Breakfast time is quite chaotic as everyone tries to grab some fruit or a piece of toast between 5.30 and 6am followed by quick bites to eat when time allows. Last Sunday we completed a modified version of Learn to Read the Bible Effectively with our Sunday morning group of students from LCDI. Those who were able to consistently attend each Sunday were presented with certificates. ...

It is so nice to be over in another country and to be helping more people hear about the good news. We are having an awesome time here, experiencing many new and exciting things. Cambodia is so different in many ways: the people, traffic, food, clothing, buildings, shops and lifestyles. We have found the people to be so loving and friendly. They are happy, kind, caring and welcoming. They like to laugh and we love to join them! It is so encouraging to see such excitement, interest and enthusiasm for the Truth! We have been inspired by great lessons. Helping others learn about God’s Word helps us to feel God’s love and guidance more in our lives. We feel so extremely blessed to be here. We have both felt a little bit nervous and unsure at times, but we both feel a lot of joy and happiness from being with such beautiful people around God’s Word. We have made many awesome friendships that we hope will grow as we wait for Christ to come. We have enjoyed spending time at the BEC, the LCDI S...

We are all so excited to have some new faces at BEC...we were getting a bit tired of looking at the same 3 faces over the dinner table each night (Loy and I are also pleased we don't have to listen to Borng Thom's jokes for a while with the distraction of new conversations)! Tim, Rachelle, Gracie and Asher all arrived as expected last evening but we were a bit surprised when Marvin was with them also. We thought he wasn't arriving until today but then we found out that he was thinking the same thing! Apparently he woke up early on Tuesday morning and for some reason thought he should check his flight times...what a surprise when he discovered that he had 2 hours to pack and get to the airport! Yes, you guessed it - he had the date wrong! Talk about leaving things to the last minute. Fortunately the whole family rallied around and helped him pack and got him to the airport just in time! It seems his packing was a bit random so he now finds he has plenty of some things and n...