Monday night prayers 17 November 2025

 

What a week this turned out to be. We were both so ill that we could not lift ourselves from the bed. This whole week we spent in the room and could only get us so far to get blood tests and back to bed. It turned out that we got a severe case of Typhoid. How we got it stays a mystery. There are so many possibilities as we do not live in the cleanest of places,hahaha. We had severe fevers hot and cold and just miserable overall.

So Lying in bed for a week is no joke at all. My body ached so badly but could not work in my shop. So I am a bit behind schedule on my Christmas toys. Need to get to it this week. This year is getting so quickly to and end that we cannot keep track of it anymore. Almost Christmas and it feels not like it.

Recently I am totally consumed by the fact that we need to leave someday from here. One of our best friends are leaving in a few months and seeing them packing up and leave, makes me extremely uncomfortable. We got so used to life as a missionary in a foreign country that going home does not sound so appetizing. Talk to my friend this morning, I realize how hard it is to pack up and go and start from scratch again. The only thing that we can do is to look up to God and what He wants for us, will be good. We humans keep brainstorming options and plans, but God’s purpose prevails. Proverbs 19:21

Thank you for praying with us. Being ill just remind us that we only live in absolute grace of God. Continue to pray for our healing.

Love

Rossouw-clan

Monday night prayers 10 November 2025

 

All around us, heavy weather makes things a bit scary. Vietnam and Philippines took the most force of these typhoons that came in and us only get a bit of rain. In the Philippines they had now 2 typhoons in 2 weeks and the place is really devastated. Not sure you can see this on your news channels. Lots of people died because of heavy rain and wind and landslides. We are pretty lucky here, I guess with not bad weather these days. Seems the rainy season stopped and only light rains. So the mud is kinda drying up.

Currently I am running a kind of virus with fevers on and off. For 2 days I try to rest but it’s no joke to be sick here. My beautiful wife is taking good care of me. Today I am feeling much better and hope to be myself again in a day or 2.

Reports on the border issues with Thailand looked promising but there is still no end to it. Even Trump made them sign a peace deal but on the ground things are different. People living on the border still suffering as their homes are now on the wrong side of the fence. The 18 soldiers that was capture has not been released. Please pray for this situation to end.

These days I find a lot of foreigners here that are desperate for someone to hang out with. Like the one uncle told me,” it is just nice to talk to someone my own age.” Met up with an old friend again this morning and over coffee he told me his struggles here. I could encourage him to break ties with the people that is milking him dry. It is all about money. I am just wondering how many older foreigners, here, are going through the same problems. Knowing God is not an option as they are already set in their ways but I think that will make a big change. There is a huge need for foreigners to hear about Jesus.

Anton’s passport problems are almost sorted. He is waiting for them to come back to him about fees and then he can get the visa he needs. I bit stressed this week with that but apparently its very common to pay an overstay.

We are so privilege to have such a number of people praying with us. Thanks for that. We really feel so blessed. Have a great week.

Love

Rossouw-clan

 

Monday night prayers 3 November 2025

 

Good evening dear family and friends

 

I't's  Bon Om Touk (Water Festival) here in Cambodia. The whole of Phnom Penh is here in Siem Reap for the holidays, so we are trying to avoid town and traffic. This festival marks the end of the monsoon season, but we're still having rain each day. At least the road is not flooded anymore so Twans is happy to have "clean" feet again while driving her motorbike.

 

Anton is back in Malaysia for his 2nd year.  Saying goodbye does not get any easier. Thank you for all your prayer for Anton. He has made some good friends, and feeling at home at the church he is attending there. Thoughts and worries about what next after he finishes his diploma the end of this year. He want to study further for a degree. We will apply for scholarships. Please pray for God's direction and provision in all this.

 

The new school year started the 1st of November for our students. Now more than 80 students attend our classes in the week. Please continue to pray for Twans and the other teachers, to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit, be open channels for God's love and that many of them would join The Mighty Kids  Sunday program and meet Jesus. The students who are part of the Joshua Generation of the church are growing closer to God. Twans see changes in some of them during class time, more considerate to other students, more loving, eager to help and learning to forgive each other.

 

Good News! An organization, "Bikes for Pastors", from Australia has donated money to buy new motorbikes. We are so thankful, "Rikkiditikidi"and "Frankenstine" (my outreach motorbikes) are really more broken than whole and literally holding together with a wire and some chewing gum. There is also enough money to buy a motorbike for Pastor Dim in the jungle. Praise God.

 

Greetings

Rossouw-clan

Monday night prayers 27 October 2025

 Good evening all

It is always a rush to get to Monday nights, what to write?? Well tonight is one of those nights, but like Gideon use to say:””Here goes nothing!””

Twans led us into the prayer Sunday at church, yesterday. I must say, when it comes to prayer, I am most properly the worst one out there. Sitting still and pray just do not do it for me. I can pray out loud on my bike in the mud, maybe course I need to get out, but sitting still is another story. I was just reminded that I need to train to do it and get into the habit of doing it. Listening to the prayer meeting of FGC every Wednesday, I hear people really committed to prayer. I make my heart warm that we all are different and that we all pray in our own ways. Talking to the Lord daily and on the job, so to speak, makes it easier for me than sitting and pray in one setting. Thank you Lord for giving all of us a different way to communicate to You.

It is now a long time since I got a bad wound to attend to and was wondering when I can do it again. I got another opportunity to go and help a guy with Leprosy, thanks to Gordon in Ratanakiri. The wound on his foot looks horrible and is already in the bone. Shame he is cleaning it only with herbal water. Pray that I can go and help him soon. Such a shame that Leprosy still got a bad stigma around it. At least here in Cambodia they are still part of the community although they stay on their own in their own little house. But these guys you do not see on the streets. The lack of finances makes it difficult for people to travel to Phnom Pehn for treatment at their Leprosy facility. At least they can get their meds now in Banlung.

A friend of mine just told me that he wants 1300 little cars to give out in the villages. Well I got my work cut out for me,hahaha. Anyone want to come and help?? Anton is helping making wheels and that helps a lot. Tomorrow I got help from another boy and we need to break down some pallets.

Well that’s all for tonight. Next week is Water Festival but its canceled due to the unstable border situation. They signed a new peace deal just yesterday and we hope things will better for good.

Love you all

Rossouw-clan

Monday night prayers 20 October 2025

 It is that time of the year again when all the vehicles around had enough of all the water and mud. Not just my truck but also the bikes on this yard are broken. I spent the whole day to fix my old trusty jungle bike and try to restore it to good use, but not too easy, need to bring it in for fine tuning. Every morning Twans storm out of here with her bike just to get stuck in the mud around the corner. It is filthy mud and water as it lies between the small houses. We need to get her boots for this, shame.

The truck is another story. On Friday we went out to town and I said to Twans that something is seriously wrong. So Saturday, I loaded the bike on the back and off to the mechanic. Just a few kilometers away, a huge bang and the front wheel ran ahead of me. I am not sure if everyone were in shock but when I climb out of the truck we all started to laugh at this. Of course the truck is down without a wheel and a guy rolled it back to me. Luckily it was the wheel nuts that came loose. How in the big world that happened and why did the wheel not fell out on the highway back home? Two times there could have been a terrible accident on our way back home but God protected us again. So we fixed everything.

This morning used the truck to go to town and on the way back she got stuck about 100m from our gate. She came in and not in a good mood. The clutch is messing around as it hooks to the bottom and you need to use your toes to get it working again. I really thought the mechanic fixed it but not? So she was tuck in the mud and I had to go to rescue. She is in the truck again tonight, so I will hear how it go this time.

Just a small hindrance, I am sure everyone experiences once or some of us more than that. Well the Lord tells us to count it all joy. O my can we have joy in situations like this? Well to get angry is of no use and to laugh is better and get the job done. I am very fortunate that my dad showed us how to fix things and with YouTube, I am a good mechanic, hahaha.

As you can see, we are doing very well. Enjoying Anton at home and spent as much time with him as possible. Toinette is ever busy with the kids in the village. Please pray for one of the staff, Marie as she is not doing well. Her illness returns quite often and it baffles the doctors. It is difficult for her as her family do not really care about her illness as they only see it as money spent. My pastor friend shared the other day that he belongs to a local medical fund that cost him $10 per year per person, but he did not pay it and that made him getting a loan of $20 000 to pay for medical costs. Now that makes me boil, but what can you do?? A small investment per month can cover all these hidden costs but we do not think about things like that.

Not much news tonight but we love to share to you what happens to us here in the Kingdom of Wonder.

Love

Rossouw-clan

 

Monday night prayers 13 October 2025

 

What a weekend this has been. We took the road to Phnom Chi again and in fashion, this time of the year there was severe mud and water. Not that we mind as this comes with the territory. We were literally side-swept at the Captain’s house as there were so many people. I sea of house jumped upped over this last month. Some say it’s people coming back from Thailand, the one I asked said they come from inside to stay here in the rainy season and go back after it stop rain. Never the less, they wanted some medicine. Joshua shared the Gospel to all of them with Curtis translating and Dim filling in on the end. We want to go back asap again to teach more about Jesus.

At one site, we called the “Wild camp”, the people were so accommodating. Lots more people this time in the jungle. Children got something as well as adults with some meds for all. They even asked Dim to come back and teach them more about this Jesus they hear about. This is amazing news as Dim shared this to us. Now Dim is already planning to come and hit the mountain with the Gospel. We want to see more believers around Phnom Chi. Please pray for future outreaches to spread the Word of God.

The small church in Rum Jopon is doing great. They shared about all their persecution they got and how God helped them overcome their fears. Now when Dim and Curtis share the word, they also participate with eagerness. I am amazed at these guys that is so on fire for the Lord. When they heard about other people around the mountain also want to hear about Jesus, they felt encourage. God is making a way where there seems to, no way.

The road was difficult with lots of mud and ruts from tractors but it did not kill our willingness to get around Phnom Chi. Anton shared to me that it was good for him to did this trip as it sets the path for him to go back to Malaysia to study. On the way back I felt that something was wrong with the truck but we pressed on. We made it back quite late in the night and parked the car. This morning I wanted to go and clean the truck and it got stuck right in front of my gate, tie rod broken. For you that do not know, you cannot steer the car even if you force it. So I got my work set out for me this morning. If you believe in miracles, this is one. It could have broken on the road and not in my driveway? Thank you Jesus for all the prayer for safety on the road. Got it fixed in no time.

Oom Jan is doing better but still in hospital. Pray for complete healing.

Srey Lynn had a baby this week and they are doing just fine. Thank you Lord for protecting her through this. Now there will be 2 babies to cradle in the office, so I wonder if they will get time to work.

Thank you very much for your continued prayers. It works as you can see.

Love

Rossouw-clan

Monday night prayers 6 October 2025

 

Wow what a week this was. Anton came to visit and I had a birthday. Becoming 60 is not for the faint hearted. All I can say is that the Lord gave me grace in abundance to get here. Looking back over these last 31 years, I can just stand in wonder of what the Lord did in our lives. We invited some close friends and had a small party with too much food to eat. I am still paying the prize for all the eating this weekend and the fridge is still over flowing from all the left overs.

I started this morning with packing of some meds for our outreach this coming Friday. Anton will be with us and it is soaking wet so we are looking forward to go in again to the jungle and give people the meds they need. We know now that when its rainy season, there are lots of sicknesses roaming around. Its been a while since we visited but I am sure it will be a good one. Curtis and his crew will join us again. Please pray with us for open minds and open doors as we not just take meds but also the word of God into the jungle. Pray for safe travels and bikes to survive all the mud.

River of Life Fellowship just finished a church camp with their students. Toinette had to keep some kids that was not part of the camp, busy, doing crafts. Anton went with and show the boys how to use a Dremmel (small drill for carving) for the first time. They made some wooden coasters that was drawn out by Anton and then the students could paint them or use the Dremmel to cut it nicely. So nice to have artsy Anton with us. I am sure we will have a better report next time about all the happenings at the camp. These kids are very serious with God.

Please continue to pray for Toinette’s uncle. Oom Jan is still in the ICU after an operation a while ago. According to the reports we get, he is up and down. Please pray that his body will fight whatever is the problem. Pray for Anti Anna, Janine and Arnelle.

Thanks for always praying with us. It is just God’s grace that we can be so fortunate to have so many people praying for us. We really appreciate it.

Love

Rossouw-clan