Cambodia Mission Project (Updates and prayer concerns)

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Campus Crusad for Christ
Iloilo to Phnom Penh Hybrid 2013 Updates
Day 2-May 20, 2013

Campus Assignments:

Limkokwing University of Creative Technology
- Ross-Cleven Togonon
- Cathryn Cyra Cordova

Phnom Penh International University
- Ann-Frances Caballero
- Riza Mae Tabuyog

University of Puthisastra
- Jovelyn Duero
- Grace Jean Molo

Royal University of Fine Arts
- Ramy Demotica
- Lomarie Batan

Build Bright University
- Cris Jonlyn Villalobos
- Mary Grace Albinio

 

[GrOwiNg_inFAITH]

Iloilo to Phnom Penh Hybrid 2013 Updates
Day 2-May 20, 2013

The Lord is ever worthy of all praises!
Thank you for praying with us. We praise God for a safe travel from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh for almost seven hours. We arrived here at Pacific Hotel at around 2:45 this afternoon.

Let's pray for the following:
-Wisdom for planning decision making
-Good health for every delegates
-Adjustments towards foods, climate and people
-Spiritual preparation
-Good relationships and sensitivity among the team members
-Good night rest
-Successful search for potential key volunteers
-God's leading to the right persons to be challenged

 

[GrOwiNg_inFAITH]

Iloilo to Phnom Penh Hybrid 2013 Updates
Day 3-May 21, 2013

Team Ross

Limkokwing University of Creative Technology
We praise God for David, our student guide in entering the campus. We were able to meet Yoanne, a first year Business Management student and a Pastor's kid. She will help us to reach out other students. We also shared the Gospel with Thea and we will meet her tomorrow for follow ups and challenge.

Let's pray for the following:
1. Hearts of Yoanne and Thea as we challenge and equip them to become leaders in the campus.
2. More contacts because the students don't stay long in the campus during their vacant times.
3. Strength, courage and wisdom to share Christ.

University of Puthisastra
We praise God for a smooth entrance in the campus. We had our prayer walk around the campus and we met Linda and Omat, both junior students and they were Buddhists. We came to know more about the UP students through them. We had soularium with hem too and we will meet them to present the Gospel on Thursday. Another opportunity that we praise God for is meeting another six students in the afternoon, all are Buddhists. We had a wonderful conversation of knowing them personally. We will be meeting three from them tomorrow at 3pm.

Let's pray for the following:
1. Availability of the students for meeting and follow ups.
2. God's leading as we prioritize contacts.
3. Open mind of the Buddhist students towards the Gospel.
4. Courage and heart of every student missionary.
5. Continuation of the smooth entrance.
6. God's provision of perfect time to share the Gospel.
7. Meeting with Kunn and Chin tomorrow at 3pm.

Phnom Penh International University
We praise the Lord for His unending grace. We also praise Him for the struggles we encountered while entering the campus. We were able to enter the campus but we were only allowed to enter today. We don't know about tomorrow but we are trusting God to provide us every means of getting in the campus. We praise God for or guides, ate Smay (staff) and kuya Mon ( one of the student leaders). We met Rasy and Ho, both Christian students from Nor Ton University this afternoon. They intentionally met us at PPIU through kuya Mon because they want to learn from us. We praise God because though they were not from the campus we were assigned to, we will be able to able to challenge them to start building movements in their campus. We also praise God for the contacts we generated from them. We will meet Ho, Rasy and Odoum tomorrow at different times for KV challenge. We were also waiting for the list of contacts from kuya Theng, one of the student leaders.

Let's pray for:
1. Ability to enter the campus tomorrow.
2. Hearts and decisions of Rasy, Mai and Odoum as we challenge them to be key volunteers.
3. Wisdom as we make strategies to talk to the students from PPIU
4. God's leading as we walk through our journey here in Cambodia.
5. Strength, continuous dependence on God and safe fireplace to keep our hearts burning for Christ.

 

[GrOwiNg_inFAITH]

Iloilo to Phnom Penh Hybrid 2013 Updates
Day 3-May 21, 2013

Team Ramy
Build Bright University:
Today was our first visit to Build Bright University. Thank God for the safe travel. We enter the school unnoticeably and it’s a good thing that the students were open for conversations. We really praise God for the four students who heard the Gospel and two of them responded to receive Christ. We were able to communicate with them through the help of Pisey and Sukon as our translator and guide.
Let’s pray for the following concerns:
1. strength, wisdom & guidance to find the right students in building spiritual movements
2. sensitivity of the Holy Spirit for decision-making
3. language barrier
4. openness of the students to the Gospel
5. one appointment tomorrow for follow-up

Royal University of Fine Arts :

We praise God for a safe travel from the hotel to the campus we were assigned. This day was our first campus visit to the Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA). We entered the campus easily since there is no security guard and the school is not strict with dress code. Almost 90% of their population is Buddhist. Some of the students understand and able to speak English that helped us to communicate with them easily. Also, we were able to have a spiritual conversation with some students. We were grateful to have Kuya Khay (CCC Staff) and Vuth (CCC student) as our guide in entering the university.

Let’s pray for the following:

1. to the students of Royal University of Fine Arts
2. for Sopat, Narra and Phanet (they are all Buddhist. We are planning to share to them the Gospel tomorrow)
3. for Kuya Ramy, he has an Allergic Rhinitis
4. Wisdom to communicate well with students

 

[GrOwiNg_inFAITH]

Iloilo to Phnom Penh Hybrid 2013 Updates
Day 4-May 22, 2013

Team Ross

Limkokwing University of Creative Technology
We praise God for David, Yoanna and Thea for helping us finding potential key volunteers. Because of them we were able to meet more Christian students. David, our student guide really help us interact with Cambodian students.
Milcah and Cedrick were both Filipinos. Milcah's father is a missionary and also a teacher of the said school. We encouraged them to lead a spiritual movement in their campus.
Sharona and Ben were Indonesian and Cambodian. They were both freshmen student. We did soul peak "solarium" with them and able to learn more about their spiritual journey. We shared the Gospel and encouraged them to share their faith.
God is truly working behind the scene. We need to be still in midst of the situation that God in His own way will give us the right person who will lead a movement in their campus.
Let’s pray for the following:
1. Milcah and Cedrick commitment in leading the movement.
2. Sharon and Ben for follow-up tomorrow.
3. Thea's heart in knowing more about God.
4. Availability of Michael a Korean student for meeting tomorrow.
5. To find more key volunteer who will continue to lead the movement.

University of Puthisastra
We praise God for our meeting with Eang, 1st year pharmacy buddhist student. During our conversation, we have learned that he has little knowledge about God but have not fully believed on Him. We praise God about sharing to him infinite forgiveness. Thank God that writing, illustrating and drawing became effective for him to understand God. He too has been interested about infinite forgiveness and asked a copy of it. We can see leadership on him. He communicates his queries or question and challenges our ideas about God. He is confident. We will continue our conversation on our scheduled meeting. In the afternoon, we met Oddom and Borin, 2nd year students. We have soulpeek with them and we have known them personally. They are quite good in conversation. They even express about themselves. They were exposed to the gospel and Christianity more than once. We have shared some parts about infinite forgiveness but it's hard for them to believe. We pray that the seed of the gospel that is in them will cause them to seek the Lord for they have put their hope on their gods (parents, sister, technology, self and Buddha). May our conversation and prayer has ministered.

Let's pray for the following:
1. Odom and Borin, both second year students. They are already exposed to the Gospel but it's hard for them to believe. May the Holy Spirit administer to them and cause them to believe.
2. Please pray for Bang. We have started sharing infinite forgiveness with him and we had given him a copy. May the Lord reveal Himself as he personally reads it.
3. Please pray for Linda, our potential key volunteer. We will meet her tomorrow and may the Lord prepare her heart for the Gospel.
4. Please pray for Ky Veasna one of the top students of English Literature class. May he be available for our meeting.
5. Please pray for us (Riza and Ann). May we do these things according to God's ways.

Phnom Penh International University
We Praise God for breaking the barriers to enter the campus. Ean met with Limsivinex and she did soularium and shared infinite forgiveness after. She will meet her again on Friday. I met Udom at 10am lately and everything went fine as I challenged Him. He committed to be a key volunteer and I will be meeting him again tomorrow for training (Modeling) and follow up. I also challenged Rasy, the one from Nor Ton University who met with us at PPIU and he committed to be a key volunteer as well. I will meet him again on Friday for modeling and follow up. We praise God also for the contacts that we are about to meet the next days. We praise God for breaking language barriers as well. He provided us with strategies to better facilitate learning for the Cambodian students. Drawing and writing while explaining works better. We praise God for revealing His Omnipotent and Sovereign self to us.

Let's pray for the following:
1. We could enter the campus of PPIU again.
2. More contacts and referrals of PKVs.
3. Peace and right attitude towards circumstances.
4. Wisdom in decision making.
5. Lessen the barrier of language and awkwardness towards the looks of the people in the university.
6. God's protection from the lies of the enemies and sickness.
7. Jove's Appointment to Seyha and Odum tomorrow.
8. Listening hearts to God's leading.
9. Safety travel of delegates to school assignment.
10. Quality rest and sleep.

 

[GrOwiNg_inFAITH]

Iloilo to Phnom Penh Hybrid 2013 Updates
Day 4-May 22, 2013

Team Ramy

Build Bright University:

We thank the Lord for what He has done for this day in BBU. After we arrived at the school, we do the prayer walk for few minutes. We praise God for the provision of few people who helped us to communicate with the students; they are Yvonne together with her husband Ashley and the other members of CCC Cambodia, Sopheavy, Koll and Sokun. We were able to find three students (2 males, 1 female) who speak and understand English. We were able to share with them the Gospel with the use of 4SL, Soul-peek and the new material which is the infinite forgiveness story. God led us to Borit who prayed to receive Christ and showed some leadership potential.

Let's pray for the following:
1. For our hearts as we are on the process of understanding to break the culture and language barrier
2. For Konti, as he is a potential student leader. We will share the Gospel to him tomorrow.
3. For Borit and Daro's growth since they already received Christ. We are planning to challenge them as key volunteers tomorrow.
4. Female student leaders
5. God's wisdom and guidance on how to convey the message of the Gospel.
6. For the students to develop their trust to us
7. Intimate walk with God
Royal University of Fine Arts:
Praise God for we were able to share the gospel using the “Infinite Forgiveness” to some students. We thank God for a soul added to God’s Kingdom; a Buddhist named Nivath prayed to receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. Kuya Ramy shared his testimony with him and he responded positively to the gospel. Using the “Soul Peek” we were able to build rapport to connect and to start a spiritual conversation with two female Archeology student s and a male Architecture student in RUFA, namely: Srey Neth, Pagna, and Khemren, together with three CCC involved students here in Cambodia. We also thank God for meeting Srey Neth who is already a Christian and for an opportunity to ask for contacts. We were also able to spot a Man of Peace (MOP) and a Potential Key Volunteer (PKV).
Let’s pray for the following:
1. Passivity of students towards the gospel
2. To be able to set appointment with our contacts despite of their busy schedule
3. To be able to come up with strategies for us to find PKV
4. Wisdom and strength as we trust God to look for someone He has prepared
5. Sopat, a potential key volunteer and Srey Neth, a Christian; we’ll meet them tomorrow to share the gospel and to challenged them to become a Key Volunteer (KV)

 

[GrOwiNg_inFAITH]

Iloilo to Phnom Penh Hybrid 2013 Updates
Day 5-May 23, 2013
Team Ross
Limkokwing University of Creative Technology


We praise God for providing us students who are qualified to be part of a team in reaching their campus for Christ.
We were able to met more Filipino Christian students and they help us identify Christians in their campus.
We did soularium, infinite forgiveness, four spiritual laws and follow-ups to some of our contacts. We then challenged them to be one of our key campus volunteer.
Joanna, Soklee and Michael accepted the challenge and willingly to be trained. We casted our vision to their campus and prayed it together.
Let’s pray for the following:
1. Enduring passion of Joanna, Soklee and Michael in sharing Christ and leading spiritual movement in their campus.
2. Opportunity to meet Christians students: Elda, Jem, Vitya and Yu Kim.
3. Follow-ups for Ben.
4. Open heart of Sharona to accept the challenge.
5. Wisdom in casting the vision.
6. To meet the father of Milcah and Mili.

University of Puthisastra

We praise God for our meeting with Vouwch Ngy, 1st year accounting student, a Buddhist. We presented and shared to her about infinite forgiveness. She became interested about God, about Jesus and His love and forgiveness to man and expressed that she too wants Jesus to be her Lord. We led her in prayer to receive Christ. Praise God that she is now a believer of Christ. We then casted to her the vision and about spiritual multiplication, and few information about movement. She then expressed desire of also doing the same. She is now a KV. We close in prayer and asked her to list down 20 names of people she knew whom she wants to share infinite forgiveness too. She gave us Shen Thai, a classmate she thinks who has potentials to do the same. We schedule a meeting with her for training of how to share (4SL/infinite forgiveness) on Wednesday next week. We contacted shen thai then and had a meeting in the afternoon, he is a 1st year English major buddhist student. We had a wonderful conversation with him. We found him potential as to maturity of how he thinks and influence but since he is a self-sufficient student, working as part-time teacher, we see time and his availability not enough to do what we are doing in the campuses. He gave us Sien Nye instead to contact to, a student of potential leadership in their class. We pray that the Lord will just reveal Himself to shen thai that he may believe on Him. Another appointment was with Ky Vaesna and Phorn Sokleap, as referred, they are said to be the top students in class and has the most of the influence in 1st year literature. We utilize soul peek to initiate conversation. We praise God how He gave us wisdom everytime these two challenges our ideas and the real existence of God. They are really potential leaders. We will be meeting them again on Monday to continue sharing about infinite forgiveness. We pray that God will open their hearts and God would prepare us as well.

Let's pray for the following:
1. For God to continue to make His new believers experience Him more and more each day.
2. Continue ease of entry.
3. May God will protect and will make Sreng Vourch Ngy, His new believer grow in faith.
4. 10:30 am meeting tomorrow with Srey Nyi.

Phnom Penh International University
We praise God for His revelations to us today. We trained Udom and we have seen his desire to share his faith. He is eager to know how to share the Gospel and we are blessed for the opportunity to train him. God has put His peace in our hearts. We may have not talked to any student today but God has taught us to be humble that no matter how trained we are to train, success in this mission will not be based on the number of KVs we have but how far have we gone in obeying God. Another thing is how are we going to obey God for our ministry when we get back to the Philippines. We praise God for His peace and revelations.

Let's pray for the following:
1. Udom's continuous growth and independence in studying the Bible.
2. Rasy's heart for we will be training him tomorrow.
3. More student leaders to be met and talked the Gospel with.
4. Our endurance (physical) because doing mission requires great physical works.
5. Our health that we may be able to stay healthy all throughout our stay here for the mission.
6. More opportunity to connect and deal with students.
7. Ownership of the campus we are working on.

 

[GrOwiNg_inFAITH]

Iloilo to Phnom Penh Hybrid 2013 Updates
Day 5-May 23, 2013

Team Ramy

Build Bright University:
Praises be to God who is the source of complete joy!
By God’s wisdom, we developed another strategy to effectively spot a leader type student. God is so AMAZING for revealing potential key volunteers to us. We met Phearan, a second year student in BBU and was born in a Christian family. He speaks English well and he desires to be a missionary someday. He’s an answered prayer to us. We also thank God for the unexpected referral from our Buddhist friend. He volunteered to assist us to set an appointment with his Christian friend Sitah. We will impart the vision to them on Monday. It’s also a great experience to have fellowship with other Khmer Christians. Great is our joy in serving the Lord.

Let’s pray for the following:

1. God's wisdom & guidance for the two appointments we will have on Monday. We will present the challenge to Phearan and Sitah.
2. Stillness especially the enemy is at work
3. Good health
4. Dependence and intimate walk with God

Royal University of Fine Arts:

The Lord is worthy of all the praises and honor. This morning we met two male students named Finang and Makara; and we praise God because the latter is a Christian. We shared the Four Spiritual Laws booklet with them and our guide Vuth translated it in Khmer for them to understand the Gospel well. Both of them prayed to receive Jesus Christ. We talked to Finang and challenged him to become a Key Volunteer (KV). By God’s grace, he accepted the challenge and referred us to his two Christian friends who also have the leadership potentials.
Truly, God works surprisingly. We never expected that we would meet three Christian students, Finang and his two Christian friends. We are very thankful that the two of them accepted the challenge to be a KV and we are planning to meet the other one next time. We were also able to meet two female students who speak English very well and we are hoping to meet them on their vacant time to have spiritual conversation.

This afternoon we met our friend Sopat who is also a Potential Key Volunteer. We talked with him and by using the "Soul Peek", we were able to know his life story.

Please pray for the ff. concerns:

1. Smooth entry to go inside the campus
2. Training of Key Volunteers tomorrow
3. PKV to be challenged ( a friend of Finang and also a youth church leader)
4. To be able to find contacts through our existing KVs
5. To be able to meet our PKVs despite of their busy schedule

 

[dliz]

Iloilo to Phnom Penh Hybrid 2013 Updates
Day 5-May 23, 2013

Team Ramy

Build Bright University:
Praises be to God who is the source of complete joy!
By God’s wisdom, we developed another strategy to effectively spot a leader type student. God is so AMAZING for revealing potential key volunteers to us. We met Phearan, a second year student in BBU and was born in a Christian family. He speaks English well and he desires to be a missionary someday. He’s an answered prayer to us. We also thank God for the unexpected referral from our Buddhist friend. He volunteered to assist us to set an appointment with his Christian friend Sitah. We will impart the vision to them on Monday. It’s also a great experience to have fellowship with other Khmer Christians. Great is our joy in serving the Lord.

Let’s pray for the following:

1. God's wisdom & guidance for the two appointments we will have on Monday. We will present the challenge to Phearan and Sitah.
2. Stillness especially the enemy is at work
3. Good health
4. Dependence and intimate walk with God

Royal University of Fine Arts:

The Lord is worthy of all the praises and honor. This morning we met two male students named Finang and Makara; and we praise God because the latter is a Christian. We shared the Four Spiritual Laws booklet with them and our guide Vuth translated it in Khmer for them to understand the Gospel well. Both of them prayed to receive Jesus Christ. We talked to Finang and challenged him to become a Key Volunteer (KV). By God’s grace, he accepted the challenge and referred us to his two Christian friends who also have the leadership potentials.
Truly, God works surprisingly. We never expected that we would meet three Christian students, Finang and his two Christian friends. We are very thankful that the two of them accepted the challenge to be a KV and we are planning to meet the other one next time. We were also able to meet two female students who speak English very well and we are hoping to meet them on their vacant time to have spiritual conversation.

This afternoon we met our friend Sopat who is also a Potential Key Volunteer. We talked with him and by using the "Soul Peek", we were able to know his life story.

Please pray for the ff. concerns:

1. Smooth entry to go inside the campus
2. Training of Key Volunteers tomorrow
3. PKV to be challenged ( a friend of Finang and also a youth church leader)
4. To be able to find contacts through our existing KVs
5. To be able to meet our PKVs despite of their busy schedule

Hey my church also had a Mission Campaign in Cambodia a month ago. I will include this on my prayer list. God bless.

 

[AsifinPassing]

We mission'd in Cambodia a couple of times!! It was awesome!! I love those people!! ...sad history though...

I was also in Campus Crusade a while back! Congrats! That's awesome! Prayers, hopes, and thoughts to you on this venture!

 

[GrOwiNg_inFAITH]

Thank you for praying with us.. )