I cannot believe its December already. Time for
Christmas and the year are gone, so fast!! Everybody gearing up for holidays
back home and here we are gearing up for a really busy time with Christmas
parties and what else. We are waiting for our little niece, Lida Marie to come
soon and we will spend the whole of December with her. She just landed in Sri
Lanka on a mission trip with her Uni-fiends. Please pray for them as they will
work alongside the local people there.
Most of you are familiar with Apo, the paralyzed
boy. Well, his older brother that was Epileptic and severely brain-damaged, just
passed away this week. This family is such a hardworking family and to have 2
boys not been able to help is a real problem. I visited them as the
proceedings were going on. His dad is like an elder in the local Temple. Now
they have 3 days of celebrations where they need to provide food to the whole
neighborhood as well as renting a big tent for this whole proceeding. It will
cost them about U$2000 for all of this, which of course they do not have. On
top of this, all is the shame of this boy. Lots of people will now tell them why
this boy died. We can just pray that they
really will see the Light and start believing in the true God. On the other
hand, Apo is not doing very well. His bedsore started again in all its glory
and I will go and help him this week. Time to pull out all the stops on this
boy again. Please pray with us for a full recovery.
Lots of missionaries are feeling the brunt of the
enemy right now. Let me explain. In the Western world, we get sick but here it’s
a different ball game. When you do God’s work you literally get attack from
every corner. Satan is literally walking around like a roaring lion, ready to
devour everyone that is not with him. As Christians, we feel the attacks must
worse here than back home. God warns us that we will be attacked when we do His work,
now that is for real here.
Katherine Steele from Water of Life recently had a
severe case of Measles. Her whole house full of young children was sick for a
while now with measles and other sicknesses. Pray for COH in Phnom Pehn. If that
was not enough she got Dengue on top of that and has to rest a lot now. She is
doing much better but her immune system is compromised. Pray for Brean and
Katherine who looks after these vulnerable children.
Donny Sargeant, a good friend and missionary in
Phnom is back home after Dengue fever. He was in the hospital due to dehydration
and say that he is on the mend again but just low in energy. Dengue is really
bad here this year.
Petra Marek’s little son Hosea just went home after
a scare in the ICU. He has a hole in his heart due to Down Syndrome and became
blue. He was in ICU for a few days but is doing much better. Thank you, Lord, for
helping this little boy. Petra is a long term missionary here in Siem Reap.
While busy with Hosea, at home she had 2 more children with other illnesses.
Our daughter Suzaan and her mum were in a bad
accident while traveling. A car smashed into them from the back and they got
some bad back pains and whiplash. Luckily they are alive due to a good strong
car. Both of them are a bit traumatized by this event.
Some food for thought: This is not just happening in
Cambodia: Please read the full article by following the link below.
Driving into the coastal Cambodian city of
Sihanoukville, it’s easy to lose your bearings. Half-built buildings adorned
with Chinese-language signs jut crudely into the sky. Casinos and other symbols
of Chinese development mark the nominally Cambodian streets below.
Yet Sihanoukville, thanks to Cambodian strongman Hun
Sen’s alignment with Beijing is now a Chinese city, a colony of sorts—where
the incoming conquerors act often without thought for their new local vassals.
Stories of criminal Chinese behavior—kidnapping, sex trafficking, prostitution,
and murder—are plentiful. This has spread across the country, spurring
widespread Cambodian anti-Chinese sentiment.
China’s involvement in Cambodia demonstrates a
pitfall in Beijing’s attempted hegemonic ascent. When developing states align
themselves with China, many do so out of authoritarian solidarity—Beijing has
in recent years bolstered unsavory allies in Phnom Penh, Harare, and Caracas,
among others—but the overwhelming majority do so in hopes that China will send
them educated engineers and businesspeople to fill in significant
infrastructural and other developmental gaps. Instead, Chinese state-run and
state-aligned companies often hire Chinese workers “who would otherwise be
unemployed in China” to tamp domestic unemployment concerns. Predictably, this
has angered local populations, putting receiving governments in a political
bind.
In this sense, China is acting like the colonialists
of old: for nearly a century, Britain, first through the East India Company and
then under the Crown, exported its own mediocre men to supposedly civilize the
South Asian Raj, contributing to the Empire’s impotence and eventual fall.
Today, China is ultimately undermining its efforts to become the globe’s
foremost power by shipping abroad its own middling ruralites. (Read more follow
the link)
Thank you for praying for us.
Love
Rossouw-clan
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