Dear Friends and Family,
With all going on in the world it was good for me to be
reminded today of the verse in Ephesians 6:12 “For we do not wrestle against
flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the
cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil
in the heavenly places.” Let’s not just focus on color, race, nationality, etc
but be reminded our fight is against the evil forces not each other.
Twans and the FGC Community Link staff are doing home
visitations to all the students and church members as we are still not allowed
to open schools. She shares the following: It is truly humbling to go out and
visit all the families of the students from our ACTS program. Most of the
plants and sell vegetables for an income. At one home the grandmother and mother
were making small bundles of herbs that they harvested. They sell the bundles
at the market for only 400 riel for 10 bundles! I sat there feeling so ashamed
of how easily I spend 1 U$ (4000 riel) and here these 2 women work very hard
for so little. Still, they welcome us to their homes with warmth and
hospitality. One father was busy making a trap to catch fish when we arrived
at his home this afternoon. He immediately sends his son up the coconut tree to
get some coconuts for us to drink as it was hot outside. We give a short lesson
with some exercises to the students and it is great to have one on one time
with them.
Mordegai and some friends went to visit our friends
deep in the jungle. It was a glorious reunion. They asked us why we took so
long to come, as we explained about Covid-19, they were laughing. Even the
police told us that they do not have any cases in the jungle. Thank God for
that. I was amazed at how many people are currently in the jungle or the clear
parts, planting Cassava and tend to their Cashew trees. They were so happy to
get medicine again as it is a real mission now to get to town due to some nice
rain.
We spend the night at our friends in Som Paom. They
made us some real Khmer food with some Prohok(rotten fish paste) and delicious
soup and chicken from their yard. All organic stuff. We played with a calf that
is sleeping in the house and wants to sleep in a hammock with us,hahaha. They
tell us that they are not allowed to use machines to dig for gold anymore as a company
came and told them to stop using machines and now they are only allowed to do
panning. Why they do things like, nobody knows, no these people have it very
hard and doing work like this will be impossible. We were just reminded that we
need to pray more for our fellow friends in Cambodia as the going is really
rough and tuff at this time.
We could also visit the new village where we build a
little place to teach some Khmer for children who not attend school. It will
start maybe in November after the schools start again. So many people came for
medicines as it was organized by the leader of the village. I am looking forward
to Heang to start teaching there.
Please pray for the following people:
Ouma Paula is doing better but not out of the woods
yet. The shoulder pain a fair bit but she keeps it still and manages the pain.
Owen is doing much better and he said that he will be
on a bike soon again, now that’s a real Aussie speaking, rough as guts and hard
as nails.
Please pray for America as things are not well at this
time. People are rioting and people get killed in the process. Pray for all of
this craziness to stop.
Thank you once again for praying for us, may you have
a great week ahead. We pray that you can bring any problems to God.
Love
Rossouw-clan.
Police officers told to monitor all social
media posts
National Police chief General Neth Savoeun today urged
all officers to monitor social media platforms such as Facebook for posts by
ill-intentioned groups who attack the government.
During a monthly meeting at National Police
Headquarters, Gen Savoeun instructed all police officers to pay attention to
maintaining security, public safety, and especially prevent hostile groups who
attempt to overthrow the government, National Police spokesman Lieutenant
General Chhay Kim Khoeun said.
“General Neth Savoeun has instructed us to monitor
social media platforms such as Facebook for public opinion, both constructive
criticism and hostile posts by groups out to attack the government,” Lt Gen Kim
Khoeun said. “We will accept truthful criticism and we will act immediately
against those who have ill-intentions to attack on the government.”
He called on social media platform users to post
information to serve social interests rather than to destroy society. “We will
take legal action against those who insult the King, post untrue information or
incite people not to repay their bank debts,” Lt Gen Kim Khoeun said “They use
Facebook to destroy society, so police will take legal action.”
Last week, Interior Minister Sar Kheng slammed former
opposition party leader Sam Rainsy for instigating people to start a civil
disobedience campaign to obtain debt relief and to stop servicing loans.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50730432/police-officers-told-to-monitor-all-social-media-posts/
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