Cambodia Bible Education Centre

Most mornings, David and I are up and out the door by 5:45am, to start the dorm service at 6:00am. We are currently hopping through the 66 books of the Bible, summarising a book each morning. The idea is to give the dormers a little bit of background that will let them place the events and stories that they read into a bit of context. We generally cover a bit about the main themes or people in each book as well as the time and place and circumstances in which it was written. We have just got onto the minor prophets... these are the hardest books for the Khmer to find so it will be some good practice! Following that, I have a class from 6:30 – 7:30 with Sis Dany, studying from the Way of Life book. David has a class too at around that time with a small group of dormers, currently studying Old Testament stories that reveal principles we read of in the New Testament. While we are at the dorms in the early hours, Loy, Gary and Vitou all have classes to teach here at the BEC. ...

This weekend we had an Outreach programme happening. This is for students who previously came to the BEC to study but have had to move back to the province for some reason or other. So we arrange for them to come back to Phnom Penh to the BEC usually once a month for a concentrated weekend full of lessons. This month four boys – Theary, Chaileng, Sokun, and Peakday – were able to attend. This time it has fallen on the King’s Birthday Holidays. So on Friday night we all went out to a park and enjoyed watching the fireworks for the King and seeing all the other sorts of things that were happening to celebrate it. Everyone enjoyed the time out in the warm evening air. This weekend the lessons were on Baptism, Life in Christ and the Commandments of Christ. Which seems to have gone down very well and they are very interested. When not teaching the outreach students we were busy preparing and teaching other classes. The highlight would have to have been Saturday evening, which we spen...

I guess everyone will be wondering what we have been up to over here in Phnom Penh as we haven’t been very punctual at writing these blogs... Apologies for that. Well so much has happened here and we have all been very busy this last month. As you will know the BEC has changed premises. This all happened just before Khmer New Year. Then David and I went to Vietnam for a few days and Abi, Dan, Shane and Gary went to Sihanoukville, while Michael, Miriam and Loy manned the fort here over Khmer New Year. After Khmer New Year we got back into things and all our classes started up again. We decided to have an opening day for the new BEC. This was to show all our contacts where the new BEC was and to see what other classes we could take for new people that came along. We also invited previous contacts that for some reason or other have stopped coming. So Saturday the 24th April was the day planned for the opening. It started off as a normal Saturday morning, and then we started cookin...