We had a
wonderful time over Easter, with a meditation service on Friday as well
as a service on Sunday. Great time to rejoice that Jesus died on the
cross and rose up again. Indeed that is what life is all about, Jesus.
We missed our families dearly but have a family here that rejoice with
us.
Please pray as we enter our 3rd New Year. Khmer New Year will be next week and everyone is already preparing for this feast.
Talking about there celebrations in this New Year's Day. The Khmer people celebrate them traditionally as below.
A few days before the Khmer New Year's day, they prepared some food, clean their house, bought some news and so on. When the New Year's Day comes, they prepare something such as 5 candles, 5 incenses, a pair of 5 Baysey, a pair of Baysey Baklam, a pair of Slathor (a ceremonial ornament made with a banana tree trunk bake), a tray of cigarettes, some flowers and some fruits to sacrifice to the new heaven. When every is ready, they sit together near that place and light the candles to pray for happiness from the new heaven and start to pray before breaking each other. On the other hand, we have different celebrations during these 3 days of New Year's Day.
On the first day, they take some food to offer the monks at the monastery in the evening, they gather the sand to build up a sandal mountain around the pagoda or around the bany tree in the early evening, and they some drink to the monks and invite them to bany.
On the second day, children give some new clothes and money to their parents and grandparents. They also give some gift to their maids and poor people. In the evening, they go to build up the sandal mountain and start to bany that they consider it a Cholamony Chedey and ask the monks to bony and offer them the food to dedicate this sin to the spirit of the ancestor.
In the morning of the third day, they also invite the monks to bany for the sandal mountain. And in the evening, they bath the monks and statue of Buddha. During this third day, the people also play some traditional games such as the hand-scarf-throwing game, they kick the nuts game, the tug of war game, trot dancing (Battambang, Siem Reap). They also dance some traditional dancing such as Rorm Vong, Rorm Khbach…. etc.
http://www.tourismcambodia.com/tripplanner/events-in-cambodia/khmer-new-year.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_New_Year
Talking about there celebrations in this New Year's Day. The Khmer people celebrate them traditionally as below.
A few days before the Khmer New Year's day, they prepared some food, clean their house, bought some news and so on. When the New Year's Day comes, they prepare something such as 5 candles, 5 incenses, a pair of 5 Baysey, a pair of Baysey Baklam, a pair of Slathor (a ceremonial ornament made with a banana tree trunk bake), a tray of cigarettes, some flowers and some fruits to sacrifice to the new heaven. When every is ready, they sit together near that place and light the candles to pray for happiness from the new heaven and start to pray before breaking each other. On the other hand, we have different celebrations during these 3 days of New Year's Day.
On the first day, they take some food to offer the monks at the monastery in the evening, they gather the sand to build up a sandal mountain around the pagoda or around the bany tree in the early evening, and they some drink to the monks and invite them to bany.
On the second day, children give some new clothes and money to their parents and grandparents. They also give some gift to their maids and poor people. In the evening, they go to build up the sandal mountain and start to bany that they consider it a Cholamony Chedey and ask the monks to bony and offer them the food to dedicate this sin to the spirit of the ancestor.
In the morning of the third day, they also invite the monks to bany for the sandal mountain. And in the evening, they bath the monks and statue of Buddha. During this third day, the people also play some traditional games such as the hand-scarf-throwing game, they kick the nuts game, the tug of war game, trot dancing (Battambang, Siem Reap). They also dance some traditional dancing such as Rorm Vong, Rorm Khbach…. etc.
http://www.tourismcambodia.com/tripplanner/events-in-cambodia/khmer-new-year.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_New_Year
On
Saturday, FGC will have a New Year celebration in the village. Pray for
open hearts as Toinette will share a message. Please pray for a man in
the village that have problems with his back. Not so sure what to do,
but hope to help him soon. Pray that God will reveal to us what is wrong
with him.
Tomorrow, I will drive to Stung Treng again and from there we will go to visit a new tribal church in Mondolkiri. Quite a way to go, but we were invited to come, so we go. Pray for a safe journey and open hearts.
We
are doing good and little aches and pains, nothing painkillers cant
handle. Pray for Willema as he is in Laos, doing some sight seeing. He
will be back in 2 weeks.
Miss you all
Rossouw-clan
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