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After almost 12 years in Papua New Guinea and 6 years at NTBI Bible School, I never dreamed that the Lord would have us return to an overseas ministry. But here we are in our mid 50’s, when most are looking to retirement, we are learning another language!   I have to say, we are Praising the Lord for the privilege and opportunity to do just that.
Ron and I arrived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia just two weeks ago. It has been a whirlwind with setting up an apartment, getting to know our way around the city, and adjusting to the many new sights, sounds and of course smells. My greatest challenge has been to relax in the traffic system.  Imagine 2 Million people with 1 ½ million driving motorcycles and bicycles. Oh, and stop lights aren’t for motorcycles or bicycles and sometimes they aren’t even for cars. I have been praying lots as I travel around the city for the traffic safety of course but mainly for the people of Cambodia. This country has experienced such atrocity in recent years. Today we visited the “Killing Fields”. This is a literal field that they have found over 20,000 bodies in a space of about two blocks. They think there is at least 20,000 more that haven’t been unearthed. This site is one of hundreds around Cambodia. It was the saddest thing I have ever seen. You could still see clothes and fragments of bone that comes to the surface every rainy season. One of the inscriptions said that the torture was so horrific that the “Khmer Rouge were human bodies with hearts of demons”. A country without Christ is a country with no Hope. Please join us in prayer for the Country of Cambodia. Let’s bring them Hope.

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