Cambodia Bible Education Centre

My experience at the bible education centre has been absolutely life changing and I cannot express enough my gratitude to God for providing me with this opportunity. It honestly has been life changing and something I will never forget. Also big thanks to all of the BEC brothers and sisters who shared love and care constantly throughout my entire time here, as well as the immense support from family and friends around the globe. Wouldn't have been able to do it without all of you.  I think it's pretty common in North America for many people both Christians and not to have the desire to want to do missions type work. If you would have asked me if I was planning to do missions work last January- my answer probably would have been 'yeah maybe sometime in the future'. However after being in Phnom Penh for a little over two weeks and confronted with the possibility of extending my time for another month and a half, I was a little distraught. It's all well and great ...

I was always interested in doing some mission work but didn't think I had the skills or knowledge to be of any use, so I never really pursued the idea. I’d never done a talk before, never been a chairman, and never had to answer tough bible based questions, so I pictured myself sitting in the back of lessons being pretty useless.   I recently had the opportunity to go to Cambodia and I thought I might check out the Bible Education Center (BEC) in Phnom Penh. I went to one of the field workers meetings and they were looking for volunteers to go to the BEC in Sihanoukville. I had no plans for the next month and a half so I volunteered. 2 days later I was facing my first class. Thrown straight in the deep end, I was teaching classes from beginner English, to first principals. It was a bit scary at first, but I had all the teaching aids I needed, so it was not difficult. The students are awesome and love to have a laugh while learning, so building relationships was fun and very rew...