Cambodia Bible Education Centre

This weekend has seen the wonderful inclusion of two more young people into the household of faith. Sister Son Phab and Brother Krouch Saory were baptised into the sin covering name of Jesus Christ on Saturday afternoon, the 19 th of June at the ecclesial study weekend. Having informed you of this event, deserving of superlatives that so far elude me, I shall rewind the tale to the beginning of the weekend for a more blow by blow account. Our local BEC workers, Sister Loy and Brother Vitou, having been commissioned both by BEC Management and the ecclesia itself, diligently prepared a weekend away for the second Phnom Penh ecclesial study weekend. Eschewing the BEC as a too familiar locale for the weekend, the ecclesia chose to visit the beach town of Kampot. Kampot is the family home of our Brother Kem Kunthea and with his invitation the matter was settled. The bus departed at an hour usually reserved for those terminally obsessed by exercise and bleary eyed and sullen, we took our...

My background My name is Keo Sokhorn. I am nineteen years old, and study in the eleventh grade. My father, Keay Koel, who is 70 years old, and my mother, Om Kea, 63, are both farmers. I have five brothers and four sisters, including three half-brothers and a half-sister. At the time of the Pol Pot regime, my father had a wife, two sons and one daughter, but then his wife died. My mother had a husband during the Pol Pot regime, and had one son, but her husband died too. Afterwards, they met each other and married again. So after that, my parents had six more children, which is great that they did because I am the youngest of the six. My family are farmers: they work on the farm, planting rice, harvesting it, and selling it at the market to get income for their everyday expenses, and some to support my siblings and I to study. But that money is not sufficient for us all to study, so some of my brothers have left the family to find jobs in other provinces, getting money to support themsel...

Greetings from Kampuchea Just recently Brother Vitou and myself made the seven-plus-hour trip up to Preah Vihear to do some follow-up outreach work with our previous Bible student contacts. The bus trip in itself was no big ordeal, taking the usual rest stops along the way at the the local roadside cafes. It wasn’t until we reached Kampong Thom and de-bus-ed that things started to get interesting. We hired on with a local car transport that would drive us to our final destination. Things to me became rather dubious as I notice the four forlorn and quite balding tyres on which our lives depended. So here we proceed with our trip, five of us in all and quite happy to be out of the condensed confines of the bus. Little did I know that this was soon to change as driver proceeded to stop along the way picking up more and more passengers until we reached the capacity of eight souls. Of great interest at this point was that the detail in the road map that I had brought along, showed a fi...

We have just been blessed with another Baptism here in Phnom Penh on Sunday. We all gathered at the Olympic Pool in the sweltering heat at 7am and watched and waited for David to baptise Sokhorn. Eventually David and Sokhorn appeared in their less than desirable swim suits... as they had to wear what the pool attendants required Unfortunately we all didn’t have the best view of the event as one of cleaning staff decided to start fishing debris from the pool with a net, right around David and Sokhorn,, and so obscured everyone’s view at the time she was baptised! But that aside we now have another Sister over here, which is very exciting. We welcomed Sokhorn with the right hand of fellowship at the Memorial Meeting that afternoon. After Sister Theavy and girls at the dorms all prepared some lovely Khmer noodle for us to eat. All in all it was a very happy day for us over here in Cambodia and no doubt the Angels and our Heavenly Father were also rejoicing.