Gideon and I took a quick road trip down to Kampong
Tom to deliver some needed papers to the Local Government. It was just great
seeing Gideon so relaxed after a horrible week of school and flaring tempers
about new schoolwork. Just what a boy need is goats, chickens, ducks and lots
of other animals. Seeing him interact with these animals is amazing. Needless
to say that we could see the fleas on him afterward, hahaha. I so wish we can
get a piece of a farm for him to have some animals.
Heang came with me to the village that we planned to
build a small “” school” already more than a year ago. The same man that cut the
wood for us also stole our wood and it took him now a year to give it back to
us. We just visit him all the time and reminded him about it and be his friend
even he stole from us. It seems that our persistence and humbleness paid off.
Thank you, Lord. The village chief allows us to make an extension on his house
for a small “” school””. All we need now is a builder to put it together for us
and then Heang will go there and teach the children Khmer and English, using
the Bible as teaching materials. Once they know how to read and write in Khmer,
they can go to regular school. Pray with us for this “” long lost”” project to
finally get off the ground.
I want to share a real miracle that happened this
week. One of our good friends that are pregnant started to bleed about a week
ago and Toinette feared that she will lose the baby. After an ultrasound where
they could not hear any heartbeat, the doctor sends the couple home for the
weekend and ask them to be back in 3 days and then they can go ahead to remove the baby. Heartbroken but faithful to God, they cried out to God as this will be
their 2nd time of brokenness. On Sunday they went to the doctor
again and she said that she wants to wait for another week before she wants to do
something. Now that is strange for a doctor to say that, but we believe that
the Lord worked in her heart. After another week the couple went for an
ultrasound and the baby is healthy and nothing wrong. We rejoice with this couple
about this good news. Please pray with us for this couple and for the baby to grow
healthy and free of any danger.
Please pray for the following people:
Ben and Hannah Wideman is leaving tomorrow for Canada.
Pray for safe travels and for small Levy on a very long flight.
Annerina was hospital again with a high fever and got
a blood transfusion, so she is doing better.
Please pray for another Filipino friend, Celia VM
Hickey. She lost her husband recently and she needs to get to grips with this
pain after not even married for 1 year.
Please pray for my friend Samai. Someone made a fire
and burned 60% of his Cashew nut trees down. It is a big loss as the trees were
full of cashews ready to be harvested. He uses this money to help tribal pastors
to plant more churches. Recently smoke from fires is making the sky grey and
you do not see the sun all the time.
This Coronavirus is raising fear everywhere it goes
except in Cambodia. Here its business as usual but the PM is asking people to
be careful. Only 1 case is reported here so far even with all the Chinese
arriving here. We can just pray for the people that get sick to be treated
well.
I just got news about our NZ visas. Hopefully, we will be
informed soon as they have a big backlog of applications due to the virus. All
the applications that were in Beijing are now back in NZ and they will work on
it ASAP. We pray that it will come in time for us to visit NZ.
Pray that we will not get tired of doing well to
others. Pray for encouragement daily as the enemy is busy this time of the
year. It seems to me when the warm weather gets to Cambodia, people are not
thinking straight. There is a saying:”” Do not make any major decisions in the
hot months….”” This is really the time for missionaries to go home and leave
behind desperate people.
We rejoice with our fellow Namibians as we get videos
of water running in every river and nature that shouts out of joy for the good
rains back home. You can just hear the joy in people’s voices when they praise
God for the rain. O how I wish for some rain here in Cambodia, still a few
months before we will get any.
May God bless you with more rain or snow in this week
to come?
Love
Rossouw-clan
1 comment:
Thanks Uncle and Aunty for all your support and love for us. Appreciate all your prayers..thank you.
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