Cambodia Bible Education Centre

Thanks to the support of Saruon who works at the BEC and who started the ball rolling, calling the few she knew, we were able to gather the original bikers together in order to rekindle their interest in Bible study and to show that we are still thinking about them. Saruon and Sokun are members of the ecclesia here but had lost contact with many of the others who had studied with them at the BEC during 2008 and 2009. It has been healing and encouraging to see them reappear one at a time over the last three weeks. We organized an outreach activity on Tuesday night which saw all but two attend. We are still hopeful of finding EAN Sokorn and SUN Vannak. At least four of this group were close to baptism but had to look for employment or returned to their provinces at the end of 2009 when they graduated from L-CDI. Our Outreach Program, P2P visits and other attempts to contact them have had moderate success but after this get together we pray that we can achieve better outcomes and improve ...

Last Sunday the Phnom Penh Ecclesia enjoyed a day out together. We met under a shady mango tree where we broke bread together. Bro. Borin exhorted on the narrow road and our need to overcome our own selfish plans and follow Jesus. We read from Mark 5:1-43. He spoke about the faith of the woman who was sick for 12 years and found a path through the crowd to touch Jesus. This narrow path of faith led her to being healed. The meeting was followed by another visit to the island in the Mekong where we lazed in the shady huts, enjoyed some chicken and rice and played in the water. Fortunately it did not rain this time and we did not have the muddy hills to battle through when we returned to PP. Steve and Lynne

Some of our more avid readers may remember that Vitou & Dany got married a few weeks back and we mentioned it in a previous post. Well, since then they have had another 2 celebrations! The first was a Christian wedding in PP, the second was a traditional Khmer/Buddhist wedding, at the insistence of her father, at her parents house in the Province and then the weekend of the 8th Jan was a party at his parents house. They asked me to photograph the Christian and this one, but this time I only had my manual camera and for the first time in a long time I took about 40 pictures before realising I hadn't got any film in! Flip! Thankfully, I got another two films worth so there should be enough. So, the party basically consisted of continuous eating and dancing. They invited over 1000 people who came and went during the two days! Mental. For the first time I ate chicken feet, which was nice but largely because it was barbecued. My name, unfortuna...