Tropang Krosang village

We have ridden on a lot of busses on this trip. Pat has been generous to all the weary travellers offering polo mints at strategic time. We think she has an endless supply!

Today started with sunday school teaching for the sunday school teachers. The content was virtually identical to what we had in Prey Veng. Anita and Hans taught the theory.

Anita with translator Dara.

 The story of the lost sheep told with puppets to illustrate puppetry as a teaching method.

The day has been one of the hottest we have had and there was no fan or draught at all in the tin church. It did not take long to become like an oven!

After lunch we went to Tropang Krosang village for health care teaching similar to that which we have had in other rural villages.

Pat teaching

With a eurasion tree sparrow above her head.

Anita came to find me and asked me to join her, Situon and some others in praying for a lady. Of course we did once the church's pastor had been located and invited too. We prayed and she said the symptoms had lessoned, we asked for permission to pray again and the symptoms she had complained of were gone. She then asked us also to pray for another problem / ailment she had. We did  and we saw a partial healing for that. I prayed in english, Situon and the pastor and some VIDP workers in khmer and Anita in Norwegian. The lady spoke no english as she would have struggled to know what was said as we all prayed at the same time. Amongst other things I prayed that she would be filled with the joy of the Holy Spirit. When we had finnished praying she said she felt much better and felt full of joy! Prise God!

The Cambodian children are wonderful, here they are playing with the teenagers in the team.

 Cambodia is a country that is very hard to describe, the feel of the warm damp air, the smell of wood smoke on cooking fires, the sounds and sights that are not usual for us but also the way of life.

Fruit we don't recognise.

Cakes cooked in leaves.

Whole families transported in on moped.

Tuctuc is a moped with a trailer for paying passengers. They are everywhere.

Here is a man with a motorbike carrying chickens somewhere.

Look carefully at what this lorry is carrying, workers on their way home at the end of the day. Cambodians only get one day per month off!

I had an interesting if stinted (due to language difficulties) conversation with the pastor in Tropand Krosang he has a poor homeless family living behind a curtain in the back of his church. There are new people becoming Christians in his congregation and he asks that we pray for the church he dreams of building.

Pastor Chheuy Mit standing in front of the plot he dreams of building a church on. I have promised that we will remember him and his church in our prayers. Will you join me in praying for him to reach even more people with the good news of Jesus and that one day his vision of a church will become a reality?