Indochina Missions Newsletter
November 2008
Saveun and I send you all greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We hope you are all enjoying your service to the Lord Jesus in these last months of 2008.
We had a great month this past October. Ten souls come to Christ to be baptized here at the DaNgow Church. This past Sunday, the first Sunday in November, we had a woman of 63 years old come to receive Christ and I baptized here along with four others. It is always great to pray after a baptismal service like that thanking the Lord for sending both young and old, both men and women to receive Christ and be baptized upon their profession of faith.
This month I am highlighting one of our workers. Brother Thi has been serving Christ with us for about ten years. He lives next door and over the past several years has got married and they had two babies. Thi's mother let him have a part of the property behind hers where he built a small house. Thi attends all of our twice daily Bible Studies and helps in all of our work. He mainly serves in maintaining the building and grounds and helps care for the older Children during Sunday Service. To supplement his income Thi has been raising sheep for quite a few years now. He takes them out and lets them graze on the roadside in front of the Church on his day off. His picture is so expressive of a simpler life and I thought all of you would enjoy it.
Many of the people which Christ gave us to minister to are living simple lives. Meals are cooked with wood or locally made charcoal, the houses (like ours) are not insulated nor do they have heating or air conditioning. Most sleep on mats on the floor rather than on beds or mattresses. When I saw Thi with his sheep it reminded me how much the people here live like Jesus and his disciples did. Getting water from the well in Samaria, resting in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus himself coming down the Mount of Olives on a colt to a welcome of palm branches cut from the local trees. So different from the beautifully paved roads which we ride on so effortlessly with our modern automobiles. I still find it amazing that no matter where or how people live, yet God is able to bless us with all we need to meet the needs of our lives and keep the gospel of Christ going and growing that all may hear of the Saviour.
Saveun and I thank you for your kindness to help bring the Gospel of Christ to these uttermost parts of the earth here in Cambodia. God bless your love, prayers and kindness to the Cambodian People.
In Christ's Service to the Cambodian People,
Glenn and Saveun Colley