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The Cambodian Bible School good experience

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After Rathmines bible school I headed to Sydney airport. After a flight to china, where it was freezing, I went on another plane to Phnom Penh. After getting a visa I was met by brothers Sam Hallmark and Jordan Riley. They called our tuktuk driver, brother Tuth, who had been baptised a few days before. After a stop at the BEC to drop off my luggage, we went out to the bible school. It was held at the lucky star hotel just a few streets away. We saw in the New Year with a lot of dancing, and food. Then it was late when we went back to the BEC for bed. Next morning, my room managed to sleep through an alarm and missed breakfast. We hastily went to the hotel, arriving late. Just as we walked in brother Raju made an announcement about people being late. I joined the same group as Sam. Our group was behind, but with K and D translating we made good progress and finished our classes at about the same time the rest of the groups did. We had tea at the dorms and then we played a game of soccer with the dormers. The berang (westerners) won 11-10.
Wednesday we went to Tor Slang, the notorious prison. Most of the locals didn’t go. Then we went to the killing fields. There is not much interesting about a pile of skulls, but it emphasizes the fact that without God, man is truly desperately wicked. One of the busses broke down at the clock, and the group took our bus while we waited for another one, and also for more people. Even with our reinforcements, we did not fill up the bus. The local brother with us said we could fit 30 on the small bus, and I think he might have been right. We then went out for lunch near the Mekong River. After lunch we had a short cruise back on the river.  That night was when our speakers made themselves known to everyone. Their studies on Christ and the ecclesia were very uplifting. Remember we need to be like Christ and feel and heal other people’s sicknesses.
Brother TJ was sick on Sunday so Brother Kim had to represent him in the closing ceremony. After bible school we had a bowling game. I managed to epically loose in bowling, and then went out with K, and some other people. We ate a lot of meat and then went back to the dorms for tea. Monday was a day of doing various things, Sam and Jordan went down to Sihanoukville on the 1 oclock bus and met K who was riding his moto down. Steve and Kez left and we were sad to see them go. Yesterday was another day of sad partings as our long term teachers brother Luke and sister Jess Mansfield and sister Kiri left. The BEC is almost empty now, and I encourage you to come over to Cambodia and help us. Our limitations are mostly on our human teaching resources. Today we were busy again making up welcome packs for the preaching weekend at Sihanoukville. As lessons are in recess at the moment there is not much work to do, but that will change after the preaching weekend. 

Bro Samuel Griffiths 

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