Thing's We've Been Getting Up To...

So as mentioned in my weekly email, a mission team came from DUMC for a week. We were able to go with them on outreach and home visitation on Friday. We went to two different villages along with the mobile clinic, so you could say there was physical as well as spiritual healing.

Here's one of Pastor Samrath and Pastor Allan from DUMC giving the talk.

This lady received salvation that day.

We both got stuck into helping out with the medical side of things, taking peoples blood pressure and counting pills. We had a little pharmacy going on, and I bagged up a couple of 1000 paracetamol and vitamin C tablets.

We had a rest at the second village before we started the mobile clinic and outreach, but Alvin decided he'd rather pound rice than have a nap. Here he is pounding whilst Esther toasts the rice. The Cambodians call this Am Bok, and they eat it mixed with coconut water, young coconut, banana and sugar. They can only make this when the rice has just been harvested, so you can only get it twice a year. So if you're ever in Cambodia during the rice harvest then do try it, it's very yummy.

The Christmas presents are going well. In the email I mentioned that we had passed the 400 mark. But after 2 solid days of wrapping, and with a lot of help from the youth we have now wrapped just over a 1000 presents. Hopefully we'll be finished during this next week. The pastors are going to start distiributing them to the people next Friday, please pray that the gifts would bring children and adults into the church.

The Youth Christmas party is just three weeks away!!! Still lots to be done. We're in Phnom Penh at the moment trying to organise t-shirts, buying cups, plastic bags, electrical wiring and decorations, sorting out song sheets for worship, and other random things. Other news on the party front - the invitations have been distributed to the pastors to pass onto their youth this Sunday.

So yeah, you could say there's been a lot going on with us. We're both pretty tired but God is giving us His strength and joy. Hope you are all well wherever you are :)