Monday night prayers 19 Jan 2026

Good evening everyone

Seems that the year is fast slipping away almost like the coolness we had over this month. Today was the first day that I was really sweating again, hmmm preparing for the onslaught that is coming in April. The cool weather was good for the cashew farmers and rice farmers but now we need a bit of rain to give the cashews a boozed before they are fully ripe to harvest. Otherwise the flowers die and become black. That is why farmers spend a lot of money on spraying the trees to protect it from getting bad. That cost a lot of money and that is why the money is already finish by the time the harvest is coming. Farming is really not for sissies.

I prepared a 100+ little cars to bring to the refugees on Wednesday. I will accompany Isaac again and hope to bless some children as well. The children are really on my heart as they also experience this trauma of moving away from their homes and the effects of war, especially if they were in the thick of things. It is not easy to stay away from your own home in a makeshift house in the open. There is no money for food and the monks are telling Isaac that they ran out of food most of the days. Some areas do not even have sufficient water supply for everyone. Pray with us for a resolution between the governments to stop this war and return to their respected country.

We enjoyed Eliana, she is from Brazil, teaching yesterday in church. She was teaching on the body of Christ and that a body got many parts. She even got a play doll there and gave some people different parts of the doll to illustrate her message, very smart. I think everyone got that teaching. Grandpa and grandma is just enjoying little David and now we got another princess, Monic , Srey Lyn’s little baby as well. The office is expanding with the staff getting babies. It is always refreshing to hear testimonies of people being blessed by God.

We are preparing to go on outreach to the jungle with some friends from the USA. We are leaving on the 23-25 Jan. Please pray for safe travelling and open hearts of people to receive whatever we can offer them.

Pray for Anton to finish his trimester soon. He is bit tense as he need to do a lot of group assignments and that is teaching him some real patience to work with other students that are not as dedicated as he is. It is a new year and we are trying to make some big decisions for the rest of the year. Pray that God will help us in all the decision making.

Thanks for all your faithful prayers to us.

Love

Rossouw clan

Monday night prayers 12 Jan. 2026

 

I just love this time of the year as it is nice and cool. Nights are cool so cool that we do not use air-condition in this time, so save a bit of money. There are benefits in working late till 7pm as it is quite and cool and I can put my music as loud as possible, nobody minds about loud music here. One thing I will miss when we ever will go home, in Namibia they phone the police to come and shut you up. They call it noise-pollution. My neighbors make louder music than me when they relax, so I just join into the culture. Do what locals do, hahaha

I am pretty busy making cars as I want to give away as many as I can. It gives me joy to see the kids enjoying the cars. Such a simple way to bring joy on a face. I also join my friend Isaac on his journeys to feed the refugees. I am only the driver. Isaac and his team of PCL already helped thousands of people with daily rations of food. Such a shame that the refugee camps near town gets all the attention and the small ones in the province, nobody go to as it is a far way to drive. All the big NGO’s go around town and there are normally help in abundance where the faraway places struggle to cope with the amount of people fleeing the war.

As for now, most of the people returned to their homes in order to start over again. There are lots of destruction from the Thailand soldiers and bombs being dropped. At the moment people need to be very careful as there are lots of unexploded ammunition lying around. We visited a few places the other day and people were so happy to see Isaac helping them. He shared to me that people that donate money is not rich people but rather old people on pension that give. There are definitely good people out there. We did not lose our hope in humanity.

Twans fell down with small David on her arm and in order not to hurt David she fell badly on her arm. We did not take an x-ray but I am sure she cracked it as she was in bad pain. I bind the arm up every day and she is not allowed to ride bike and now Junmar is picking her up every morning and the students, going to university, come and drop here again. Her arm is on the mend but I still keep her of the bike, heart headed German blood in her veins.

It is such a joy to go to church and get the chance to play with little David. He is so cute now and love to sit with anyone that is willing to pick him up. Miss my kids so much but I am happy to give him to his mum if he cries, haha. Love to see the children loving the Lord so much and that they are so serious with the Lord.

 

Thank you for all your prayers.

Love

Rossouw-clan

Monday night 5 Jan. 2026

 

Good evening dear family and friends,

  "The God who fills the universe imploded to become a peasant baby who had to learn to walk and talk and dress himself. In the incarnation, God's Son deliberately "handicapped" himself, exchanging omniscience for a brain that learned Aramaic phoneme by phoneme, omnipresence for 2 legs and an occasional donkey; omnipotence for arms strong enough to saw wood.... Instead of overseeing a hundred billion galaxies at once, he looked out on a narrow alley in Nazareth..... Because of Jesus, we need never question God's desire for intimacy. " (Reaching for the Invisible God by Philip Yancey) Read this a week ago and it's still speaking to me, to humble myself, to forgive, to look at Jesus.

Apo's Mom and Dad came by over the New Year. Always a joy to see them. They come to collect supplies for Apo's catheter and wounds. So faithful in taking care of their son amidst very hard circumstances. Gave away another 100 cars. Thankful to continue Gideon's legacy in this small way. Thank you for your prayer for Anton. He shared the other night that he had another conversation with an atheist boy and he is looking forward to talk with him again. 

One of our staff's father passed away last week. Please pray for the family for comfort and peace. During the father's sickbed, the mother shared that the Christians are good, they help and pray. Pray that this testimony would bring her to consider and ask more questions about Jesus.  Twans shares how you can see more clearly what people really believe at a funeral. The family painted a white cross on the baby's forehead. They explained that it is to prevent the Grandfather's spirit, who passed away, from entering the baby.  Quite a number of her students would share how they see ghosts, especially at night.  Please continue to pray for them, especially the young believers who are confronted with spiritual practices and beliefs and a "battle not against flesh and bone."

Thank you for your continues prayers

Love

Rossouw-clan

Monday night prayers 29 December 2025

 

Good evening everyone from the last Monday in 2025. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you. May this new year be blessing for you all and all your dreams be fulfilled in this coming year. All I know is that 2026 is coming and further than that I cannot think……

Thank you all for praying for Cambodia and Thailand. They got to talk on 27 December and agreed to a 72 hour peace deal and after that more talks on the implementing of the deal. Miracles still happens these days and we wait till tomorrow at 12 midday to see if the deal can go ahead. So keep on praying for the fighting to truly stop and the 2 sides can start working together to clear mines and that the refugees and go back to the country side. To many people lost all the belongings as the spoils of war were taken back to the aggressor. Lots of media posts from Thailand where their soldiers stole bikes and tractors and ransack people’s homes. Well we pray that the war stop and people can have peace once more.

 

We had a great visit with Anton here for the week of Christmas. So nice to see how University is shaping our little boy. He is working hard and is very dedicated in his work. They had to do online classes the whole week, but that did not keep him from visiting with his good friends the Warrens family as well as the Smiths family. Their kids are the best. He is back for a month and then he can come and visit again. I wish I was in school to get so much holidays but if I think of the learning that idea fly out of the room.

 

Yesterday we had a small Christmas celebration at River of Life church. Yours truly had to preach and instead of throwing the poor people with the Bible, I rather explain to them all about the birth of Jesus and where Christmas came from. It was so heartwarming to see some old students coming and join us to worship. I did not even recognize one of the girls as I did not see here in many years. It is wonderful to know that they are in a church and doing well. Toinette was just so happy to see all her students presenting the Gospel through dancing and was telling me the history of each kid. The difference in them is precious. Jesus made them even more special. Truly a great work has been done in FGC Cambodia or as it is known now Good Shepherd Center. Check them out on Facebook: Good Shepherd Rol  https://www.facebook.com/argiefernandez.rol.9

 

Thank you once again for your prayers and may this new year brings you much joy and happiness in the Lord.

Love

Rossouw-clan

Monday night prayers 22 December 2025

 Wow its Christmas again. Cannot believe that this year flew past so fast. Everyone are gearing up for Christmas and trees are up and decorations in town is shining their lights and the Rossouw’s tree is not even up yet, hahaha. Well Anton is here at least, so then everything can stand still. They do not get any days off over Christmas as in Malaysia it is not an official holiday. He went and asked if his classes are online and praise the Lord the lectors agreed to it and now he is here for the week. He is still attending online classes but that is nothing, according to him. It is a great time for him to be back in Cambodia, the place he loves so much. Off course we all sleep in one room now as we want the full experience of a full house again. There are some things culturally, from the Asians, we picked up over these years and that is that the whole family sleep in one room. We will have Christmas day with our family the Warrens here in Siem Reap. Looking forward to good food and great fellowship.

Not sure what you all hear about the war here in Cambodia. This time it is serious as the Thai uses their F-16 to drop bombs deep into Cambodia. Not a border dispute anymore but more of a destruction of people’s property. Drones that shoot fire into the rice fields and all crops lost is quite common. This leaves the people with nothing. They are already poor and then they lose everything and need to flee the danger areas as well. They say that this refugee crisis is the biggest since Pol Pot’s invasion.

We see that this is a political war and at this moment the Thai people are playing with Cambodia. They got such a big army force with Fighter jets as well as gun boats on the sea. Cambodia is totally over powered by the Thai forces.  I must say, these Khmer soldiers are a tuff bunch when it comes to defending their country. With barely any weaponry they stand up against a monster. The war is now in its 3^rd week and we hope there will be peace once more. Today marks another round of peace talks and we are all ears what they say. Pray with us for peace. I include some reading about the war if you are interested, on a separate document.

 

We wish you all a wonderful and Happy Christmas. May the Lord be a beacon of light to you all in this time .

Love

Rossouw-clan

 

Monday night prayers 15 December 2025

 

In spite of the war raging around on the border and bombs started to fall about 60km away from Siem Reap, we are doing pretty well. Could help a friend out this morning by bringing some relief food to the thousands of refugees not to far away from home. My friend from PCL is helping the refugees, that travelled all the way from the border and now even more will come from a nearby refugee camp due to fresh fighting. Please pray for Cambodia and Thailand to resolve this political war.

Such a shame that 2 such beautiful countries must hate each other so much. We can see how Thai-businesses here like the famous 7/11 or their famous PTT fuel stations with Amazon coffee, are literally boycotted. Even fresh talks with Trump did nothing to stop Thailand from increasing the war.

 

While this was all raging along, we decided that we need to make a break for the jungle and at least make sure that people hear about Christ in uncertain times. As usual the road was hard but the rewards are sooooo sweet. In the furthest corner of the mountain, Curtis and Joshua shared the gospel while Dim explained and asked some people to consider choosing God. Two guys were interested while 1 said that he will think about it. That is a very positive sign for us. This place is always such a dark place, hid away far into the jungle. Due to the illness of the chief, his home became a safe haven for people around. He is very open now to listen to the gospel. We pray that things will continue towards making it a regular small church.  

At the small church in Rum Jopon things were brewing. As usual we had church in the morning on Sunday and then they say that some people wanted to be baptized. The next moment the big drunk of the village was baptized. I was shocked to see that and pray that god really touched him in such a tangible way. Some children also got baptized and it was a real joyful occasion. That church is doing so good and the people are so into the Gospel. Thanks to Dim going there every Saturday, people now got weekly input to the Gospel.

 

I include a small writing of our friend Abraham Warren, serving here in Siem Reap. It sums up the situation here.

This morning as we were heading to the villages there were a few moments of silence in the pick-up truck. This as we watched a convoy of military trucks transporting possibly BM-21*Rockets to the Cambodian/Thai border. This rocket artillery system is capable of launching 122 mm rockets in rapid succession.

There's been serious, ongoing armed conflict between Thailand and Cambodia this week, centered on a long-standing border dispute, with heavy fighting involving artillery and rockets, civilian casualties on both sides. As they were passing us we trailed behind them for several kilometers, with another mission, "taking the gospel which is the power of God to unreached villages”.  Apostle Paul urge us to go in season and out of season whether circumstances are favorable or difficult. 2 Timothy 4:1-3

Please pray for both Christian Cambodians and Thais to exemplify godly nationalism without ethnic hate. Evangelising, witnessing and shepherding Khmer nationals through times like this is challenging, especially cross-culturally.

Pray for:

Thank you Lord that we all arrived safely home after this outreach. Travelling is hard and far.

Pray for peace once more in Cambodia and pray for Thailand to see reason in times of the season.

Anton will be home on Friday, please pray for safe travelling in the mist of uncertainty here at home.

Thanks once again for your prayers

Love

Rossouw-clan

Monday night prayers 8 December 2025

 

There is a joke among the missionaries that we could all go home during December, because there are usually many church teams visiting during this time. We’ve been having a team from the Full Gospel Church in Johor Baru this past week, and a 2^nd team will come over the Christmas time. Their unselfish hearts have really touched me. They spend their precious few days off at the end of the year to go on a mission trip and plant seeds of God’s love and the Good News. Please pray with us that the seeds planted during classes, home visitation, cell groups, and church service will grow.

The Missions Director, Sonny, and his wife also came the previous week to minister to the staff. We looked at the life of Paul: His confrontation and conversion, then conviction and commission and lastly reproduction.  We also had a closer look at the people accompanying him on his journey; Ananias, Barnabas, Timothy, Titus and Silas.  Yes, we cannot go on our journey alone, the journey is so much easier with an encourager, supporter, effective leader alongside us!  We are so thankful for each of you alongside us.

Wanted to share a short praise report for you. With the start of the new school year here in Cambodia our classes at the center went through some reshuffling to accommodate everyone’s new schedule. In our primary class there are a few students who really struggles and I have been praying for a way to help them. Most of the primary students can only have 1 hour class at our center before rushing back to school. What a surprise when these 4 that really struggles didn’t leave and told me their classes start later so they can have half an hour longer class with me. Praise God! God makes a way where there seems to be no way AMEN.

Mordegai is planning to leave for outreach on Friday this week. Please pray for protection and wisdom. Continue to pray for pastor Dim and his family. They have a lot of debt and this is very stressful. Please pray for the current persecution the local Christians in Rum Jopon experience. People are really nasty to them, but they stand together in Christ. Dim want to start another Bible study group on the far side of the mountain and we will check it out this time going.

Thank you for standing with us in all of this.

Love

Rossouw-clan