God’s Work in
Individual Lives
Thank God for His leading us to start a Sunday
afternoon children’s service. As a result of that, a 14 year old girl named
Srey Noich heard the Gospel taught for seven straight weeks, and on the eighth
week Pastor Proh’s wife, Chenda, led her to Christ. Srey Noich has expressed
the desire to be baptized, and has started attending our Sunday morning adult
service. Please pray that Srey Noich will follow through on her desire to be
baptized, and that she will grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ.
La is continuing to grow, both spiritually and in
his schooling. Two nineteen year old young ladies in our church, who happen to
be identical twins, are currently teaching La Tuesday through Friday. They are
teaching him only two subjects: reading/writing (in Khmer) and math. You may
recall that La had not been to school in three years because his teachers didn’t
have the patience to deal with his speech impediment. But for these few months
that La has been in our church and under our tutelage, he has improved
tremendously, and I believe in a few months he will be reading. La is also
growing in his relationship with the Lord. He comes faithfully every Sunday,
and has started praying for and collecting the offering. When he prays, it is
impossible not to notice his stutter. But unlike his public school and even his
own village, when he stutters at church, nobody laughs at him or mocks him. I
believe La has experienced God’s love first hand by attending Freedom Baptist
Church.
We also thank God for another young lady who started
attending our church as a result of our Friday morning outreach. Her name is
Srey Neat, and she comes from a broken home. She lives with her alcoholic
father who has discouraged her from coming to church, but she comes anyway. She
is not saved yet, but a faithful lady in our church named Bong Srey has been
teaching her through the “Do You Know God?” book. Our prayer is that Srey Neat
will soon place her faith in Jesus Christ and receive Him as her Savior.
New Outreach
Efforts
In addition to the several hours spent in house to
house evangelism every week, the Lord has prepared two other avenues of
connecting with new people for the purpose of sharing the Gospel with them.
First, there is a small English school three blocks from our house. Pastor Proh
is a friend of the director of this school, and the Lord opened the door for
me to teach English there 3 evenings a week from 5:30 to 7:30. This is proving
to be a great tool for getting to know people that I would otherwise never have
a chance to know. Soon we will be printing an information tract for our church
that I will be passing out to all of my students (about 35 students in all).
Please pray that out of these 35 students there will be a few that will visit
our church.
Another opportunity that “fell into our lap” is the
soccer field that was just built 100 yards from our house. It is a very nice
soccer field with artificial turf, and it only costs $6 per hour to rent it. I
feel that it would be extremely foolish not to take advantage of this soccer
field, as soccer is the number one sport in this country. So we have started a
twice-a-month soccer activity (every other Monday) in which we start at our
house (or the church building, whatever you want to call it) with a light snack
and a short devotional from God’s Word. The goal is for the men and teenage
boys in our church to invite their friends to this activity for the purpose of
showing them true, Godly friendship and then inviting them to our church and
sharing the Gospel with them. In these first four weeks we have already had
several unsaved teen boys and men attend this activity. Please pray that we
will see some fruit as a result of these efforts.
Thank
you for taking the time to read this letter and pray for us. We love you all!
In
Christ,
Chad
Phillips
