This weekend was one of those outreaches that we
will talk about for a long time to come. To measure how hard it was is easy,
just see if Samai is full of mud, and he was!! We followed a pastor from a very
remote area, where they still have good forest, to help with some needed
medicines. They now take extra bags of rice to their houses as soon they will
not be able to get out, due to a big river. It was sad when Samai asked the
teenagers if they can read and write in Khmer and they all said: “no”. All of
the children are working on the land as school is way too far. This makes us
think. In dry season we want to find a way to bring some teaching to them.
Samai also want to help them with water. He tried to help them before but the
drilling rick cannot get into there. So they just source their water from the
river. Pray with us for wisdom how we can help these people.
Needless to say what the road was like. We got stuck
countless times, but always find someone to give a help. The place is full of
people. On our way out we stopped at the head lady of the village and could
give her also some meds. They asked us to go and help a nearby village when we
come again.
We both went to Banlung the next day. I went to visit
my Leprosy friends. They are doing well and the uncle’s foot is looking much
better. What struck me is the way they live, such a rough life. I want to share
a small note from Samai.
We must accept many experiences from
local people even though they're don't have healthy food, light anything like
people in the city style. We should be used our life and learn something from
them. And we must humble with them just like Jesus Christ have dinner with
humans. I learned many things from local people to getting many experience come
to my life, today touch my heart so much we have dinner with local people
without light and we used flashlights instead of power. I don't know how many
people have experience with local people, spend time local life.
I could spend time over breakfast with my good
friends Gordon and Bee that work under the tribal people in Ratanakiri. They
shared the following.
Yesterday we did Pentecost (Shavuot)
celebration in Ratanakiri. Many churches came from all over the province -
about 350 people. There was real breakthrough anointing as they celebrate in
the language and music of all the tribal groups.
Now the Jarai churches are coming in
also - since Passover. They are the people along the Vietnam border. They are
very hungry since join the Passover in March. Yesterday we had about 10 Jarai
churches represented from 3 splinter groups. The Lord is smashing the clay pots
and uniting his people under his banner
In the morning we celebrate communion
and make declaration for the nation of Kampuchea. This was very significant
because we have so many language groups and different church networks come
together and agree for the nation.
Continue to pray for Quinton Calitz,
Toinette’s younger brother. He will be operated on the 20t June in Johannesburg. His brother Albert will
accompany him there. Pray as they need to do a lot preparation to go.
Please pray for a fellow missionary
friend, Steve Hyde, here in Cambodia. In his words.
So since I flew back from the
Philippines I've had trouble breathing. Today I got into a doctor for help. I
have a blood clot in my leg. Anyway, I'm getting treatment now. I'd appreciate
your prayers! (I've flown the equalivant of 3 times around the world in the
last six months and this is my first problem.)
Currently I am in the ICU in Memphis. I
have a shunt into my lungs pumping blood thinners. In a few hours I have a scan
to see what progress has been made on the last 24 hours.
The stent has to stay in one more day.
Putting blood thinners (TPA) directly into my lungs. Pray it reduces the clots
and the pressure between the heart to the lungs. Recovery will take months, at
least. We need God's miracles. Thank you all for your prayers from all over the
world. It means a great deal to me and the family during this confusing and
trying time.
(Note from Paul: My dad is in a lot of
pain from the stent. He can't move his legs at all. Pray for relief and rest.
He hasn't been able to sleep even with medicine. Thank you all.)
Continue to pray for Fe.
June 1, 2018
Journey Update: Radiation Aborted??
It was my 27th session yesterday...was
already lying down the treatment table when the machine stopped working. The
table could not move to any position...machine rested..😀 Reset many
times but still it didn't work. i was asked to get down , get dressed up and
wait. I was anxious, wanted it done because I was thinking of my ticket that
was already bought, rebooked. Patience ...patience, called for! Eventually,we
were sent home, uncertain of when we could be called back.
Today, i received a notification that
Treatment is cancelled due to machine maintenace...It's easy to get frustrated
but i chose to thank God because He has set this time for me to be bonded with
my church family who happened to be around. Thanks Bro Marlon Casco and Sis
Agot along with your family for a great time together. What a refreshing
interlude! God is still good!
Please pray that the machine will be
fixed soon and that my treatment will be completed before i go home on Wed,
June 6.
Thank you very much for joining me on
this journey. God bless you!
Please continue to pray for Manus
Olivier. His treatment is officially over and he can go
home. I shared a note from his last time in Afrikaans but this time its in
English.
Today’s sun cannot shine tomorrow…
My friend
Recently someone wrote the following
about his son’s death. He wrote how he craved the light of God during that
particularly dark episode in his life.
That, my friend, is why we should live
life to its fullest today. We do not know whether tomorrow will be dark or
whether the sun will shine. What we do know, however, is that today’s sun
belongs to this day. It is impossible for today’s sun to shine tomorrow as
well.
Isn’t our biggest wish, especially when
we feel surrounded by darkness, that tomorrow must be better? Lighter? With
less pain and less heartache?
I also want to know what my future
holds. Is there any hope left? How will I cope with pain, insecurity and new
challenges? Will the tumour stop growing?
Aren’t most of these issues all of us
deal with every day, regardless of being rich and famous or a genius? Even the
ones who exude self-confidence surely struggle with these questions from time
to time? Even those who refuse to talk about death and tell us not to mention
death but to “speak life”. When we dare being totally honest, these questions
bug all of us.
What seems like just another tomorrow
can change completely within the blink of an eye - ask the Steinhoff clan.
However, there was a morning when
everybody’s tomorrow changed for the better. It acquired a totally new meaning,
to such an extent that millennia are measured according to that, namely the
birth of Christ. How could it not?
You can choose to be for or against
Christ, yet there is no way you can be without Him. He changed the world
completely. Because of His birth, we started to understand God the way He
wishes to be understood. When Jesus touched the woman at the well, spoke kindly
to a prostitute as well as a leper, we learned something about God which the
people who are still stuck in the Old Testament, cannot comprehend.
Even the Roman officer understood that
Jesus was different, “He is the Son of God”.
“Come to me, all you who are weary and
burdened, and I will give you rest”, goes the song we sing. Then, at the end of
His earthly life He assures His disciples that He will be with them until the
end of times. And then, “I am..”
The sun which is shining today, cannot
warm you and cast its light over you tomorrow.
Take care, my friend.
Manus
Often people in Swakopmund complain
about the thick fog hanging low over the town, but then I look outside and say,
“But it isn’t dark! That means the sun is shining after all!”
Take a moment and contemplate what
doubts, fears and darkness are stuck within you today?
As you can see the list goes on and on. It is this
time of the year when missionaries leave for good and get sick, why, we do not
know, but what we know is that God is in control. Thank you once again for
praying with us. We are so blessed to have so many people that pray with us.
May God Bless you in these days to come.
Love
Rossouw-clan
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