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Our resident large, red-spotted ghecko has
now got a smaller friend. They have taken up residence near the fleuro light
above the entrance door where the insect life must appeal to their culinary
delights. We will keep you posted as to whether the number increases in the
future with diminuative additions.
Sray Pov and I have been working on t-shirt
and cap designs to advertise BEC2. Our BEC2 logo is a bit cliche but it is best
to keep things simple here. The latest problem is how to get the T-shirts
printed, as there do not appear to be any places that print them in Sihanouk
Ville. We have noticed a few silk
screens leaning against walls, drying in the sun outside corner stores, but no
silk-screening signs. Sray Pov and Dy will continue to investigate following a
conversation she had with two new contacts that work at the markets.
Our attempt at growing vegies in pots has
progressed and we feel confident that in about eight weeks we will be able to
feed one small child. Our success will incude overcoming the onslaught of
missiles such as volleyballs, footballs, shuttlecocks (badminton), tennis balls
and the usual caterpillars looking for a nice green meal. We were considering
adding a dartboard to our recreational facilities but remembered how some years
ago the boy dormers turned a room at the old dorm into Swiss cheese, with dart
holes everywhere and changed our minds.
I cooked a chicken and vegetable curry the
other night. The reaction was not too encouraging after making a grand effort
to impress all. Adding mini corn, champignons and coconut cream to the chicken,
zucs, potato, beans, carrot, curry paste and condiments. Confident that I had a
winner, I lovingly simmered the brew gently for a few hours adding the crunchy
stuff at the right time so that it didn’t go gluggy. As usual, there was enough
for a small village so I announced that we would have it again the following
night. Dy’s brow scrunched up into an unimpressed scowl. This time however I
was intent on success and included the secret Khmer (Cambodian) ingredients
that were missing; a litre of gasoline, bucket of chillies, ladel of palm
sugar, truck load of salt and the essential MSG. Perfect!!!!!
Wildlife
Report.
Our resident large, red-spotted ghecko has
now got a smaller friend. They have taken up residence near the fleuro light
above the entrance door where the insect life must appeal to their culinary
delights. We will keep you posted as to whether the number increases in the
future with diminuative additions.
BEC2
Promotion.
Sray Pov and I have been working on t-shirt
and cap designs to advertise BEC2. Our BEC2 logo is a bit cliche but it is best
to keep things simple here. The latest problem is how to get the T-shirts
printed, as there do not appear to be any places that print them in Sihanouk
Ville. We have noticed a few silk
screens leaning against walls, drying in the sun outside corner stores, but no
silk-screening signs. Sray Pov and Dy will continue to investigate following a
conversation she had with two new contacts that work at the markets.
Contacts.
Does anyone have a better word than ‘contact’ for interested Bible students?
Some words sound too schooly while contact sounds like someone with a terrible
disease (terminal sin perhaps!). The thesaurus offers a few suggestions with
nine different meanings for contact. Maybe someone has a really good Greek,
Hebrew or Aramaic word.
Contact.
Meaning: Application:
- State of Communication. People we talk to.
- Act of communicating. Instructing, encouraging, responding etc
- Physical connection. Sitting on blue plastic chairs.
- Interraction. Using a translator. Laughing a lot.
- Access arrangement. Negotiated lesson time.
- Someone who can help. A brother or sister, our Heavenly Father.
- Disease carrier. See above.
- Device making electrical connection. Whatever you use don’t forget you need an adaptor.
- Electrical Connection. Plenty of Dogs here if you want to use Pavlovian (classical) conditioning. (Google . . . Pavlov’s Dogs).
Progress.
The number of lessons we present each day
has increased and there are over thirty regular attendees. Preaching Toolkit4 is now complete for
fieldworkers to make use of. It comes with a simpler format and includes lots
of instruction and administration support. It will be available in hard and
soft copies. We feel confident that this will help to overcome the
inconsistencies due to having regular changes in fieldworkers at both BEC’s.
The three main resources that are in use at
BEC2 include: Learn to Read the Bible
Effectively (second rewrite complete) which gives new contacts historical,
geographical and cultural insights into where Christianity came from as well as
an understanding of the development of the Christian Church and the
availability of the Bible to the entire world. There is even a Cambodian
perspective included. The second resource, God’s
Plan with Man has been refined further making it even more Cambodia
friendly with a new translation soon available. The use of the NIrV has proved
to be most encouraging in facilitating understanding and helping Cambodians to
improve their English.
We encourage fieldworkers to refer to their own particular, favourite study
version as well as providing Khmer Bibles as a reference support for our local
contacts. Our third resource has morphed
from the leaflets and is called Basic
English Series and provides an instruction tool for baptism preparation. We
look forward to improving this further by making it more powerful in its
clarity and simplicity. The NIV Leaflets with vocabulary support is still in
the toolkit. There are many similar resources and websites included in
Preaching Toolkit4 to help us to improve and enrich our preaching efforts and to
support spiritual growth beyond baptism (shepherding, feeding the flock etc).
Each contact provides us with different challenges and opportunities to
elaborate upon these basic points depending on their skill and ability levels.
The three resources seek to build
background knowledge (Bible orientation), provide a big picture of our beliefs
and a third more detailed approach to facilitate making an informed choice and
strong beginning to discipleship. This process takes time and Preaching
Toolkit4 seeks to enable everyone to contribute to this process when they come
to Cambodia as short or long-term fieldworkers. There are of course many other
opportunities to share and experience God’s word and His love.
At
the Market.
Following is a comical attempt to speak
Khmer at the local market with three teenage Cambodian girls. There was a
narrow passage way and I needed to get past.
Me. “Som
dtoh bie s’rey m’nayuk.” Trans. “Excuse me three girls
one person.”
Teenager
1. “I don’t understand.” (In English!).
Me. “Oooeeech! Som dtoh s’rey bie
nayak.” Trans.
“Doh! Sorry, excuse me three girls.”
Teenager
1. “Now I understand you.” (In English!).
Our attempt at growing vegies in pots has
progressed and we feel confident that in about eight weeks we will be able to
feed one small child. Our success will incude overcoming the onslaught of
missiles such as volleyballs, footballs, shuttlecocks (badminton), tennis balls
and the usual caterpillars looking for a nice green meal. We were considering
adding a dartboard to our recreational facilities but remembered how some years
ago the boy dormers turned a room at the old dorm into Swiss cheese, with dart
holes everywhere and changed our minds. 
I cooked a chicken and vegetable curry the
other night. The reaction was not too encouraging after making a grand effort
to impress all. Adding mini corn, champignons and coconut cream to the chicken,
zucs, potato, beans, carrot, curry paste and condiments. Confident that I had a
winner, I lovingly simmered the brew gently for a few hours adding the crunchy
stuff at the right time so that it didn’t go gluggy. As usual, there was enough
for a small village so I announced that we would have it again the following
night. Dy’s brow scrunched up into an unimpressed scowl. This time however I
was intent on success and included the secret Khmer (Cambodian) ingredients
that were missing; a litre of gasoline, bucket of chillies, ladel of palm
sugar, truck load of salt and the essential MSG. Perfect!!!!!
Steve
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