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Experiences of my third visits Cambodia!

Well here I am again in Cambodia, renewing old friendships and making new ones. The clash and clamour of political rallies resounds throughout the city as the elections approach.  I am here as a fill- in until the “soon-to-be-greatly-missed” Jonnie and Melinda go home for the birth of their little one and they are replaced. Their work here has been wonderful: the way they relate to young and old, the love they share with their contacts and brothers and sisters is a joy to witness as they interact, both at the BEC and the dormitories. I have had some memorable experiences in my short 2 weeks and one I have to tell you. We were about to go somewhere and Brother Vitou asked me did I have a pair of thongs for the road. When he saw I did not he provided me a pair from the twenty or more on the ground outside the door. They fitted me perfectly and then he told me whose they had been. “These are the thongs of Brother John Tappouras from Australia,” he said. The VERY MAN WHO HAD B...

Brilliant studies at Ecclesia Bible Weekend

We had some brilliant studies this weekend. Brother Jonno Burke came for the weekend from Taiwan and presented studies around the general theme of “The Bible and Life”. His first study was a breath of fresh air. The topic: “Why does God allow Pain, Suffering & Natural Disasters?” The Answer: Natural disasters are essential for life on the earth. The earth my look broken but it has, in fact, been created perfectly! If we didn't have a liquid core we wouldn't have volcanoes & earthquakes... But … there would be no magnetosphere so we would be destroyed by the sun's radiation... there would be no way of balancing oxygen and carbon dioxide in the air there would be no way to regenerate the soil Typhoons can cause some deaths... but are essential because they cause slow earthquakes in places like Taiwan so they don't experience huge earthquakes... they also help move oxygen around the earth and break droughts. So we should praise our God for...