Cambodia Bible Education Centre

At the conclusion of Sunday's meeting, Dan stood up and said he had an announcement to make... and proudly stated that he had asked Gaye to marry him, and that her answer was in the affirmative. It seems that the question was popped at the top of Udong Mountain on Saturday (but not inside the wat, Dan assures us). They plan to have a formal engagement ceremony in Thailand near the end of the year. Congratulations!

On Sunday 22 August we had another baptism here in Cambodia – the third in as many weeks. As the date had already been earmarked for an ecclesial social activity, it was decided that the baptism would take place on Koh Dach Island in the middle of the Mekong River. Don't worry: we took Care ourselves and we didn't pay any parrks So a contingent of 40 or so ended up travelling out to the island, either by moto or tuk tuk, negotiating a ferry across the Mekong River in the process. In our tuktuk were Kerren , , Michael and David and I, and we set off on the hour’s ride to get there. It seemed that Dike hadn’t been informed which ferry crossing we should take, as he took us down side roads to what seemed to be just about every landing site on that stretch of the Mekong. Every landing site seemed to be located next door to a wat – perhaps for good luck on the river crossing? Eventually we got to the correct ferry crossing, and met the other tuktuk that had been waiting for us. A...

On Friday, Michael and I set off to teach Bible lessons at LCDI. Michael rode with Holy (vice-director of LCDI) and Brother Vanny took me, and we moto-ed the 20-or-so-km trip out from Phnom Penh. Arriving at LCDI, there were a team of Koreans hard at work. They had built a new mezzanine floor into the boy's dorm to increase the accomodation there, and now were at work planting banana trees. Each Friday afternoon, we have a class of around 12-15 students for Bible lessons. This time, I took the first lesson, crawling verse-by-verse through the record of creation from Genesis 1. After the better part of two hours of teaching, we reached the Sabbath rest. But before we knew it, the students were back, ready to launch into the next lesson, this time Michael explaining the creation of Adam and the nature of human existence. The group are always enthusiastic, keen to read, to learn, and to ask questions. One boy in particular was adept at firing more philosoophical questions relating to ...

We were glad to witness the baptism of Top Sokun yesterday. Bro Sokun is the first of our ‘biker’ students to be baptised. With many of the dorm students present, Brother "K" presided over the baptism, quoting John 3:5 "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." The ‘biker’ program was established by Bro and Sis Steve and Lynne during their time in Cambodia as a way of assisting L-CDI students who wished to study the gospel to get to the BEC three times a week. Donated bicycles allowed them to ride to and from the BEC and study with the teachers here. Many people have contributed to this baptism. Brother Raju Devis who made first contact with the school, the Armes' and others, including the WCF, who have very generously donated large sums of money to keep the L-CDI school open over the last few years have made it possible for Sokun to choose to study the Name of Jesus Christ and the things concer...

Chum reap sua puekmaak [translation: greetings friends]!! It’s currently monsoon season here but only now do us newbies really believe it. Last night provided a spectacular display of the awesome power of nature. Some of the loudest thunder I’ve ever heard was crackling through the night as rain bucketed down in torrents temporarily turning our street into an ankle deep river. Those unfortunate enough to be caught in the downpour (momentary sympathy for Michael, David and Dan M) returned completely drenched and bringing stories of knee high flooding in a few places. This morning team intrepid, comprising of Dan and Kez, Dan M and Vitou, hit the ever so slightly soggy streets (humidity reigns supreme once more) to head out to Preah Vihear Province. Over the next few days they will be meeting up with two long term contacts to continue discussions on the Bible. The contacts have invited some of their friends along for the discussions. Please pray for them as they share the Good News of Th...

Hi all, I thought it might be nice to post one of loy's great recipies. She has given approval for her excellent custard pumpkin to go up. I know it sounds weird, but it is generally rated much better than glutinous rice balls. Go on, give it a go. Loy’s Pumpkin Custard Recip e Ingredients - Pumpkin ½ Kg - ½ cup of brown sugar - ½ cup of white sugar - 1/3 cup of Condemn milk - 5-7 eggs inside yellow only - 1 cup of coconut milk - ½ of milk powder - 1 tea spoon of Cinnamon - Pinch of salt How to make it: Pumpkin cut on the top around its stalk and talks off the seed and vein inside and clean the hole nicely. All the Ingredients well mixt together, than ready to put inside the pumpkin’s hole And put the stalk to cover on the top of Custard to steam for 45 minutes, see if it like this below. Sometime it takes longer than 45minutes to steam. But don’t forget put your love in there too.

Well I have been here in Phnom Penh for a bit over 2 weeks now, and am really enjoying my time here. Bro Raju Devis arrived late Tuesday night, Bro John managed to drop in for a few days during his travels, and Bro Dan arrived on Saturday and will remain here for just under a month. It’s been a colourful week of baptisms, glutinous rice-balls, broken toasters and holes in toilets! Most importantly of these of course, was the baptism of our new Sister Rasmey, which took place on the rooftop of the BEC on Wednesday night. Rasmey gave a good account of her faith a week earlier in the presence of Bro Terry & Sis Karen Bro K , and Sis Kimsrean. It was wonderful for everyone here to be able to witness the baptism, which was followed by a Memorial Meeting where Bro Dan P in his exhort gave some words of encouragement to our new Sister. I am certain that all of you who know Rasmey will be overjoyed to have such a beautiful person as our new Sister in Christ, as am I! As for the glutinous...