Why , o why , do we have such small faith. All God is asking of us is to have faith like a mustard seed. I think my faith was less than that these couple of days. We lived on stress these last days as Anton need to get cleared from University to come back home to leave with us for home. He assured us that the people will let him know on Monday and today he phoned and say that he will make it in time to fly with us. We jumped for joy and praise God for His mercy once more. O yea of little faith, hmmm. So now we will fly on the 18th November to go home to Namibia. Anton will be here on the 16th just in time to join us. Cutting it close but that’s good.
I joined Isaack and Steve
to Waiting village. This village with 20 000 refugees has been built by the government
in order for the people to live in due to the war. They still cannot go home to
the border as the troops are still there and then Thailand soldiers are
watching. The future looks bleak for all of them. There are a few villages
around the country.
Here in the village they
got a house and a small yard to plant some veggies. The problem here is water
and hearing from Steve about the water situation just makes me sad. They
drilled a lot of holes but did it in rainy season and only went 60m/120feet. There
they got water and left it like that. Add big tanks and water purification
systems and left. Then dry season came and the water was gone, why?? There is
only surface water and you need to go deeper to find the aquifer. Steve drilled
a hole of over 200m/400feet and got the real water that will last. Well now people
do not have water or only when it rains and need to buy water from outside with
a double or triple price tag on it.
Isaack got a donation of
6000 little pink sweaters for girls in all sizes. Everyone that came got one
and we had happy customers. The staff of Hope Center was there as well as
children from PCL and they helped to distribute all the sweaters. It was fun to
take pictures of people arriving on their bikes as well to see all the vendors
with their little cards there to make a small business. There are people from
all classes, rich and poor that lost everything in the war. Glimmer of hope is
to see they build a Clinic as well as a school and we can just hope markets
will be soon there as well. People are resilient and plant flowers or some
veggies in order to eat. One thing is for sure, these people knows how to
survive.
We drove around the
frontline and could see the damage being done and the absolute silliness of
this war. The question is why would people fight over rice fields? Why would
Thailand want to occupy 500m of rice fields from Cambodia?? Really!! Now that
land and more inside lays barren as there are so many unexploded little bombs
around, from all the cluster bombs, that it is not even safe to get out of the
car and pee next to the road. This is a real sad sake of affairs. Cambodia is
trying to negotiate with Thailand but nothing happens. Continue to pray for
this problem.
Quite a lot to say
tonight but pray with us for Cambodia to get out from under this ongoing
problems.
Love
Rossouw-clan
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