Good Evening
We are still enjoying rain pretty much every day or
night over here. You can reach our home by 2 roads. The one goes through a
smelly, very dirty, poopy, muddy slum area. The other way is a cleaner area BUT
you now need a 4x4 to get through the ”lake” that used to be the road due to the
rainy season. So Twans slip and slide through the slum area every day on her
motorbike and I have fun driving through the “Lake”.
Thank you for praying for the Acts Camps. Last week
was the Advanced Camp for the High school kids. 24 of them attended each day. It was a full week with lots of teaching,
activities and times to bond with each other. The students and teachers slept
over at the center one night. They even roasted corn and marshmallows over a “Bon
Fire” – due to rain, a few hot goals on a zink sheet. The next morning everyone
was up at 4am –Ready for the day, cooking rice porridge. Clearly not city kids
but village kids who get up early to do chores! Students opened up during the small groups.
Quite a few shared how they have a lot of pressure at home as their parents
compare them with smarter more successful siblings or neighbors. During the
lesson on Emotions and how to regulate our Emotions, many shared how they don’t
have someone to talk to about problems at home. On the last day students were
challenged to do something practical as part of their Social Impact lesson.
Most groups planned to go out and pick up garbage in the neighborhood. One
group will plant a tree. Twans came home very tired each day but excited for
each student’s growth and progress. Please pray that more of our High School
students would join our Sunday program and come to know Jesus. It is so clear
to see the difference between those who are walking with Jesus and those who
don’t have peace and assurance.
Pchum Ben is winding down and my friend Abraham was
writing this:
Please do remember our Khmer brothers and
sisters during this dark few days. As we reach the final days of the festival
we also know last few days are the pinnacle of the festival. It is specifically the very last day that
marks the grand finale of the ceremony and the culmination of ancestral
offerings.We witnessed in this week how tough it has been when they are
surrounded by families members in the villages to join in this offering of
hungry ghost.
It is nice to have my wife at home as they got a few
days off, finally she gets time to cook for her hubby again, yummy “”kossies””.Nice
to eat at the table and not alone and enjoy our time together. We are waiting
for Anton to be home in a week and looking forward to be a family again.
Hope that this week is a blessed week for you all.
Love
Rossouw-clan
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