Dear Friends,
Happy New Year! Trusting
that you had a blessed Christmas season.
We hope you have had some good moments during this season for reflecting
on the events of 2014. As you are launching
into 2015, we pray for God's guidance and directions continue to lead you in
every step of the way.
We want to keep you up to date with what God is doing during
this past Christmas season. Since late
November and throughout the month of December, most of us, International
Workers as well the local KEC church members, experienced significant spiritual
attacks in so many ways. As many of us
are still fighting against various kinds of illnesses including common cold and
flu, a few KEC members encountered serious accidents, and still some others encountered
many personal attacks, and the list went on and on. We sensed that God was going to do something
BIG, and our Enemy also knew about this.
So we'd asked you to pray! Here
is the outcome to your prayers:
December 1 to January 1: According
to Pastor Nhan, president of the Khmer Evangelical Church (KEC) of the Peoyop
(northwest) Region, and based on the latest reports from the recent Regional Church
Committees (district) meeting, the northwest region celebrated a total of 29
Christmas events in various villages and provinces! Among the hundreds of attendants, many people
were celebrating their first Christmas!
When opportunities were given to those who needed salvation, a total of
71 people responded and received Christ as their Lord and Savior! And 25 other new believers got baptized
during this Christmas season! God is
truly at work among the KEC church! And
we felt so blessed to be part of this great movement. God along deserves all
the glories. Praise the Name of
Jesus! THNAK YOU for praying with us.
January 2-8: the Poipet KEC churches were blessed with the gifted
teachings on leadership seminar entitled S.H.A.P.E. (Spiritual Gifts, Heart/
passion, Abilities, Personalities, and Experiences) from a visiting team from
First Alliance church, PA. Many who
attended the seminar boasted non-stop about what they'd learned, and how the
seminar has changed their lives! They
are requesting that this kind of seminars be taught to other leaders in other
parts of the country was well. Some of
the visiting team members also helped with sport ministry where soccer camp was
done in three days! Many youth from
Poipet community were excited to b part of this soccer camp. On behalf of the Poipet KEC churches, we want
to THANK YOU, First Alliance of the C&MA from PA, for senior sending your
pastor and team members!
Please remember these dates in prayers. March
24-26: The National Church Committees (NCC) are busy planning activities for
the coming Mohasonibath (National KEC Conference), taking place every two
years, in Phnom Penh, at the new KEC center.
Pray for the many leaders and International Workers who are involved in
planning various projects and
activities.
April 1-4: The KEC
youth are very excited about the coming National Annual Youth Conference at
Mondul Kiri Province! This will be the
first time, in 22 years since the first KEC youth ministry established, that a youth conference is taking place there! Every year at annual youth conference,
many Phnong (one of the Cambodian
western tribal groups)youth had travel
at great distances in order to participate in various provinces. But this year, however, the Phnong tribal
youth will have opportunity to be part of a hosting team, in their home town,
in this most excited and most anticipate event among the youth ministry! For the youth traveling from Poipet, each
person is expected to save or raise up to $50.00 per person in order to cover
for the cost of traveling expenses. This
is a huge among for the any Khmer person to come up with, but the committees
have made the decision; they are not expecting quantity but quality, especially
from those who are committed to go. As
this letter is being written, the national youth committees are holding a meeting
in Phnom Penh in order to plan for the conference activities. Please be in prayer for the KEC youth
ministry. Recently, we had many opportunities
to witness how God was at work in the lives of many youth in the northwest
region. And this movement is being
spread to other spread to other parts of Cambodia! Pray for the key youth leaders who have
opportunities to work with and have significant impacts to many youth around
them.
January 13-17: Syna
will accompany Jonathan back to Dalat for his spring semester. Pray for wisdom and discernment as well as
patience to we wait on God as He continued His works in Jonathan's growing
years.
Please share with us what God is doing in your life. Thank you for your continual support in
prayers and finance supporting to the Great Commission Fund (GCF) which enables
us to keep serving in this part of the world.
Our God is at work! He is moving
in the hearts of many! And we have the
greatest privilege and honor to be part of His movement! Thank you for Living the Call.
Blessings,
Soeuth and Syna
