a baby with leukemia

Please pray for the daughter of Yoshiko’s old Khmer teacher. When Yoshi was here in ’02, she learned Khmer with this lady and built a good relationship with her whole family. When the baby was born 3 years ago they named her Nihon, which means Japan, (because of Yoshi). She really is a cute baby but was diagnosed with leukemia 2 years ago. We have been praying for her and we believe God is touching her. Please agree with us in prayer for her complete healing and for the salvation of the entire family.

Is Piglet a god?

While we were speaking on “love” in Takmauh, we saw a huge pig (the piglets here belong to that pig). We were told that last year she had several piglets and one of them made it on TV as well as the front-page news. When it was born it had a long snout that looked similar to an elephant’s. (one also looked like a rhino, and another a monkey – very strange). Well when everyone heard about it, people came from all over the country to see it. They were saying that the piglet was a god and they prayed to it and gave offerings of fruit and incense as well as money. (I was told that the owners made over $100.) they even dismissed school and made the students go see it.. (of course it died soon after it was born) Cambodia is predominantly Buddhist but it does have its roots in Hinduism as well. And the elephant is one animal that Hindus worship. After hearing this story I was reminded again of how much the world is in need of a Savior. Please pray that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into His harvest field.

God's love

Today we went to a church in a town called Takmauh. One of our friends who is a missionary from the Philippines invited us to speak on “love.” It was supposed to be on Valentines Day but they scheduled it a few days later. We explained to them the difference between the world’s view of love and the love that God has. Most of them were non-Christian so it was a great opportunity to share with them how God showed his love for us by sending Christ to die in our place.

CBI Library

Jan. 30
The library is being moved into a different room so that more room can be used for classes. Yoshiko is helping Irene Capapas number the books and put them in their right order.

CBI Graduation

Jan. 14

Here is the graduation service of the second year Bible school students. Those who are seated in front are the directors of the bible school. Fred and Irene Capapas, (the couple to the right) are the head directors of the school. they are A/G missionaries from the Philippines. While Darin and Diana Clements (the couple seated to the left) are A/G missionaries from the States. We really enjoy working with them.

CBI Student Retreat

Jan. 18

After the commissioning service of the first year students, they all went on a short retreat to the beach. For some it was their first time to ever see the ocean. Yoshi and I were asked to speak the 2 days that they were there. It was such a privilege for us to be the last ones to encourage them and challenge them before they went out to do their church plant. We encouraged them to put their complete trust and dependency on the Lord for their source of strength and power.

CBI Commissioning Service

Jan. 13
Here is the commissioning service of the students that finished their first year at the bible school. Now they will go out to plant their first church. Once they have done that, then they will be allowed to come back to the bible school for their second year of training. Those that are laying hands on them are the pastors and missionaries who helped send them to the school.

Pentateuch Class 2

Jan. 13
Well we finally finished our Pentateuch class. Praise God!!! Here I am with all the students. This was such a great group; all of them are pastors in different parts of Cambodia. We really enjoyed our time that we had with them. Please pray for them as they take what they have learned and spread it throughout Cambodia.

SunRise

Jan. 3
Early one morning we were making our way to a city called Siem Reap, in the northern part of Cambodia, to visit some friends. We stopped along the way to take this picture of the sun rising over the rice fields.

Pentateuch Class

Jan. 1
This is the first week of our Pentateuch class at the bible school. the man standing next to me is Pana. He was the one who translated all of our class notes for the students. It was great using him as an interpreter for the class itself because he already knew what the material was. Due to the fact that the school is growing and there is not enough class rooms, we had to move our class into the chapel. This is a good problem to have. Everyone is happy that the school is growing but at the same time there is need to expand. Please keep that in your prayers. For God to provide the funds to build extra rooms.