Monday night prayers 2 Feb. 2026

 

Welcome to February. This year is steaming ahead and things are happening fast. At the moment we got the pleasure of having our good friends, Greg, Marci, Shannon and Marie here with us. Greg was with me that faithful night when I made the horrible crash, 12 years ago. We were talking about that night in length again as the anniversary is coming up in a few days. By God’s grace I can say that He saved my life that night.

Greg preached in church in ROL and it was a wonderful time listening to him talking about Forgiveness. Something we all fall short off in our lives. So needed in today’s environment with wars and protest around us. Toinette could show off the small children to them in Mighty Kids. They were so surprise to find the Joshua generation kids naming the Bible books in the New Testament from front to back and backwards. They totally put us all to shame. Marci reckons the kids in the West can come and learn from these kids in Cambodia about being joyful and so willing to learn new things. Pray with us for the staff of Good Shepherd Rol as they are making a difference in children’s lives.

We said goodbye to our beloved friends Jared, Emily and Eli Reid. They served in AOC up in Stung Treng now for around 11 years and feel the Lord is calling them back to NZ. We are sad to see them going, even if we did not visit much it always was so reassuring that they are in country and not to far away from us. Beautiful people and really wonderful friends is all I can say. They will be miss dearly. Always sad and emotional to say goodbye to long term friends. Pray for them as they will be in a new transition back home and for fitting into their new culture.

We are waiting for Anton to come in 1 week on 7 February. It is his official trimester break and even he is looking forward to it. Off course mom and dad cannot wait to have their sweetheart at home again. Pray for Anton as he needs to finish up a lot of work in this week. I will be going to Ratanakiri on Wednesday and be back on Friday for a quick visit to my friend with a bad infection. Pray for safe travelling and for open hearts and minds when I deal with the patient and his neighbor who got Leprosy.  

We are totally blessed beyond measure, is all I can say. Thanks for praying with us and always making even time to read this letter.

Love

Rossouw-clan

Monday night prayers 26 Jan.2026

 

We are back from the jungle in one piece, all of us……. This time of the year there are lots of sand that makes it a bit difficult for small bikes but never the less more work. My friend, Greg came from the States and joined us on the trip. We started off at our favorite restaurant at the old Chinese uncle. Full bellies we mounted the bikes for a real dusty ride up to Kabal Domrey church.

This time most of the people were interested in the gospel and Dim and Curtis had plenty of time to talk to people. Dim is thinking of starting another outreach point which will make it now 3 places he need to go to on a Saturday and visit. Soon there will be more people working on their land as Cashew season is coming and they need to prepare the trees.

Checking some Glucose levels at one place due to the chief’s high blood sugar, gave us the opportunity to help him with a nasty ulcer he got on his toe. This is all due to this diabetes. His count is dangerous high and luckily I brought him some meds. His dad also came and the old uncle is a cool 105 years old. Still going strong.

When we arrived the afternoon at our overnight place, the anti was not doing well. She is sick already for a long time and cannot walk. I brought some nice cream for painful joints with and rubbed in her knees. The next morning, she thanked me for that meds as it helped her to walk again. Overworked and no rest do that to your body. They spend a lot of money on medicines that do not really work. Rather accept that they work hard and will have pain and deal with that, they are looking for a cure for the pain. When you getting old, the aches and pains are there automatically, even if your drink a lot of medicine, it just comes back.  

Uncle believe if he gets 4 IV fluids in a row with some vitamins in, then he feels good again. But 1 bag of IV fluid is U$25. You can buy it at the pharmacy for U$1 and do it yourself but when the doctor does it, it works better. Hmmmm So basically they spend U$100 for IV fluid with Vitamin B complex, then they feel better. That money is blood money as they need to work hard for that sort of money.

The morning we returned to Rum Jopon for church. It is so good to see the woman growing in their faith. Greg could share to them and Curtis translated. Pray for this little church to stand firm in His word and be an example to people around them.

Please pray for Shannon, one of our friends that came with Greg. He got some medical challenges at the moment. Pray for him to get healed while he is in Cambodia.

Pray for fruit from the big Franklin Grahame crusade that just finished here in Siem Reap. Thousands of believers attended this big meeting and I hear from friends that it was a very encouraging time for them. People here in Cambodia are hungry for the word of God.

 

Love to you all

Rossouw-clan

Monday night prayers 19 Jan 2026

Good evening everyone

Seems that the year is fast slipping away almost like the coolness we had over this month. Today was the first day that I was really sweating again, hmmm preparing for the onslaught that is coming in April. The cool weather was good for the cashew farmers and rice farmers but now we need a bit of rain to give the cashews a boozed before they are fully ripe to harvest. Otherwise the flowers die and become black. That is why farmers spend a lot of money on spraying the trees to protect it from getting bad. That cost a lot of money and that is why the money is already finish by the time the harvest is coming. Farming is really not for sissies.

I prepared a 100+ little cars to bring to the refugees on Wednesday. I will accompany Isaac again and hope to bless some children as well. The children are really on my heart as they also experience this trauma of moving away from their homes and the effects of war, especially if they were in the thick of things. It is not easy to stay away from your own home in a makeshift house in the open. There is no money for food and the monks are telling Isaac that they ran out of food most of the days. Some areas do not even have sufficient water supply for everyone. Pray with us for a resolution between the governments to stop this war and return to their respected country.

We enjoyed Eliana, she is from Brazil, teaching yesterday in church. She was teaching on the body of Christ and that a body got many parts. She even got a play doll there and gave some people different parts of the doll to illustrate her message, very smart. I think everyone got that teaching. Grandpa and grandma is just enjoying little David and now we got another princess, Monic , Srey Lyn’s little baby as well. The office is expanding with the staff getting babies. It is always refreshing to hear testimonies of people being blessed by God.

We are preparing to go on outreach to the jungle with some friends from the USA. We are leaving on the 23-25 Jan. Please pray for safe travelling and open hearts of people to receive whatever we can offer them.

Pray for Anton to finish his trimester soon. He is bit tense as he need to do a lot of group assignments and that is teaching him some real patience to work with other students that are not as dedicated as he is. It is a new year and we are trying to make some big decisions for the rest of the year. Pray that God will help us in all the decision making.

Thanks for all your faithful prayers to us.

Love

Rossouw clan

Monday night prayers 12 Jan. 2026

 

I just love this time of the year as it is nice and cool. Nights are cool so cool that we do not use air-condition in this time, so save a bit of money. There are benefits in working late till 7pm as it is quite and cool and I can put my music as loud as possible, nobody minds about loud music here. One thing I will miss when we ever will go home, in Namibia they phone the police to come and shut you up. They call it noise-pollution. My neighbors make louder music than me when they relax, so I just join into the culture. Do what locals do, hahaha

I am pretty busy making cars as I want to give away as many as I can. It gives me joy to see the kids enjoying the cars. Such a simple way to bring joy on a face. I also join my friend Isaac on his journeys to feed the refugees. I am only the driver. Isaac and his team of PCL already helped thousands of people with daily rations of food. Such a shame that the refugee camps near town gets all the attention and the small ones in the province, nobody go to as it is a far way to drive. All the big NGO’s go around town and there are normally help in abundance where the faraway places struggle to cope with the amount of people fleeing the war.

As for now, most of the people returned to their homes in order to start over again. There are lots of destruction from the Thailand soldiers and bombs being dropped. At the moment people need to be very careful as there are lots of unexploded ammunition lying around. We visited a few places the other day and people were so happy to see Isaac helping them. He shared to me that people that donate money is not rich people but rather old people on pension that give. There are definitely good people out there. We did not lose our hope in humanity.

Twans fell down with small David on her arm and in order not to hurt David she fell badly on her arm. We did not take an x-ray but I am sure she cracked it as she was in bad pain. I bind the arm up every day and she is not allowed to ride bike and now Junmar is picking her up every morning and the students, going to university, come and drop here again. Her arm is on the mend but I still keep her of the bike, heart headed German blood in her veins.

It is such a joy to go to church and get the chance to play with little David. He is so cute now and love to sit with anyone that is willing to pick him up. Miss my kids so much but I am happy to give him to his mum if he cries, haha. Love to see the children loving the Lord so much and that they are so serious with the Lord.

 

Thank you for all your prayers.

Love

Rossouw-clan

Monday night 5 Jan. 2026

 

Good evening dear family and friends,

  "The God who fills the universe imploded to become a peasant baby who had to learn to walk and talk and dress himself. In the incarnation, God's Son deliberately "handicapped" himself, exchanging omniscience for a brain that learned Aramaic phoneme by phoneme, omnipresence for 2 legs and an occasional donkey; omnipotence for arms strong enough to saw wood.... Instead of overseeing a hundred billion galaxies at once, he looked out on a narrow alley in Nazareth..... Because of Jesus, we need never question God's desire for intimacy. " (Reaching for the Invisible God by Philip Yancey) Read this a week ago and it's still speaking to me, to humble myself, to forgive, to look at Jesus.

Apo's Mom and Dad came by over the New Year. Always a joy to see them. They come to collect supplies for Apo's catheter and wounds. So faithful in taking care of their son amidst very hard circumstances. Gave away another 100 cars. Thankful to continue Gideon's legacy in this small way. Thank you for your prayer for Anton. He shared the other night that he had another conversation with an atheist boy and he is looking forward to talk with him again. 

One of our staff's father passed away last week. Please pray for the family for comfort and peace. During the father's sickbed, the mother shared that the Christians are good, they help and pray. Pray that this testimony would bring her to consider and ask more questions about Jesus.  Twans shares how you can see more clearly what people really believe at a funeral. The family painted a white cross on the baby's forehead. They explained that it is to prevent the Grandfather's spirit, who passed away, from entering the baby.  Quite a number of her students would share how they see ghosts, especially at night.  Please continue to pray for them, especially the young believers who are confronted with spiritual practices and beliefs and a "battle not against flesh and bone."

Thank you for your continues prayers

Love

Rossouw-clan

Monday night prayers 29 December 2025

 

Good evening everyone from the last Monday in 2025. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you. May this new year be blessing for you all and all your dreams be fulfilled in this coming year. All I know is that 2026 is coming and further than that I cannot think……

Thank you all for praying for Cambodia and Thailand. They got to talk on 27 December and agreed to a 72 hour peace deal and after that more talks on the implementing of the deal. Miracles still happens these days and we wait till tomorrow at 12 midday to see if the deal can go ahead. So keep on praying for the fighting to truly stop and the 2 sides can start working together to clear mines and that the refugees and go back to the country side. To many people lost all the belongings as the spoils of war were taken back to the aggressor. Lots of media posts from Thailand where their soldiers stole bikes and tractors and ransack people’s homes. Well we pray that the war stop and people can have peace once more.

 

We had a great visit with Anton here for the week of Christmas. So nice to see how University is shaping our little boy. He is working hard and is very dedicated in his work. They had to do online classes the whole week, but that did not keep him from visiting with his good friends the Warrens family as well as the Smiths family. Their kids are the best. He is back for a month and then he can come and visit again. I wish I was in school to get so much holidays but if I think of the learning that idea fly out of the room.

 

Yesterday we had a small Christmas celebration at River of Life church. Yours truly had to preach and instead of throwing the poor people with the Bible, I rather explain to them all about the birth of Jesus and where Christmas came from. It was so heartwarming to see some old students coming and join us to worship. I did not even recognize one of the girls as I did not see here in many years. It is wonderful to know that they are in a church and doing well. Toinette was just so happy to see all her students presenting the Gospel through dancing and was telling me the history of each kid. The difference in them is precious. Jesus made them even more special. Truly a great work has been done in FGC Cambodia or as it is known now Good Shepherd Center. Check them out on Facebook: Good Shepherd Rol  https://www.facebook.com/argiefernandez.rol.9

 

Thank you once again for your prayers and may this new year brings you much joy and happiness in the Lord.

Love

Rossouw-clan

Monday night prayers 22 December 2025

 Wow its Christmas again. Cannot believe that this year flew past so fast. Everyone are gearing up for Christmas and trees are up and decorations in town is shining their lights and the Rossouw’s tree is not even up yet, hahaha. Well Anton is here at least, so then everything can stand still. They do not get any days off over Christmas as in Malaysia it is not an official holiday. He went and asked if his classes are online and praise the Lord the lectors agreed to it and now he is here for the week. He is still attending online classes but that is nothing, according to him. It is a great time for him to be back in Cambodia, the place he loves so much. Off course we all sleep in one room now as we want the full experience of a full house again. There are some things culturally, from the Asians, we picked up over these years and that is that the whole family sleep in one room. We will have Christmas day with our family the Warrens here in Siem Reap. Looking forward to good food and great fellowship.

Not sure what you all hear about the war here in Cambodia. This time it is serious as the Thai uses their F-16 to drop bombs deep into Cambodia. Not a border dispute anymore but more of a destruction of people’s property. Drones that shoot fire into the rice fields and all crops lost is quite common. This leaves the people with nothing. They are already poor and then they lose everything and need to flee the danger areas as well. They say that this refugee crisis is the biggest since Pol Pot’s invasion.

We see that this is a political war and at this moment the Thai people are playing with Cambodia. They got such a big army force with Fighter jets as well as gun boats on the sea. Cambodia is totally over powered by the Thai forces.  I must say, these Khmer soldiers are a tuff bunch when it comes to defending their country. With barely any weaponry they stand up against a monster. The war is now in its 3^rd week and we hope there will be peace once more. Today marks another round of peace talks and we are all ears what they say. Pray with us for peace. I include some reading about the war if you are interested, on a separate document.

 

We wish you all a wonderful and Happy Christmas. May the Lord be a beacon of light to you all in this time .

Love

Rossouw-clan