Dear Beloved,
The New Year and the New Ministry here in Kampong Cham is very blessed. We have labeled January as the month of Victory.
We had our first Sunday of the year with 41 in attendance and 3 saved. January 7th was Cambodia’s Victory Day Celebration (liberation from Pol Pot’s regime). On the same day, we had our Victory Day celebration in Kampong Cham. We had 78 in attendance and 28 got saved. We had Pastor Conui and family that visited us, they played the violin and sang, Pastor Conui gave a message after we showed the “Jesus Film” in the Cambodian Language.
We had an average of 35 attendance for the month of January here in Kampong Cham. Please pray as we disciple and teach these folks. We hope to baptize them soon.
We started an extension church in Soung City. We had been going there for 3 weeks now. Because of those 26 folks that came to our Christmas program last time, they got saved and now we are doing follow up and Home Bible study there. Please pray that Preacher Rithy can have a motorbike that he can use to go there every week.
This January, we found a property for the church here in Kampong Cham. We go there every day and claim it from God. Please pray for it.
The ministries in Phnom Penh and Road 4 are thriving. I will update you later about them.
On January 20-22, I brought Pastor Bunthoun (of LBBC Thnuel Tutueng) and Pastor Phirun (of LBBC Treyng Treyeung) to Bangkok. There we attended the Preaching Conference of First Baptist Church. It was a blessing to hear Dr. Jack Schaap preach at the end of the 1-day conference. Both of the preachers I brought were blessed. It was their first time to cross the border. We hope that our Cambodian preachers would develop a burden for their Thai neighbors as well.
Thank you for your prayers.
Yours for souls,
Lomer Hope dela Cruz
January 03, 2011
Dear Beloved Pastor and Church,
Happy New Year to one and all!!! God has orchestrated to make things HAPPEN this last quarter of 2010. We want to glorify and thank Him. Thank you for all your prayers and support. Thank you for your part in us all.
Evangelism: Through Personal Soul Winning and door to door visitation, making new contacts and new friends through sports activities like soccer and volleyball, God gave us a total souls saved of 422. In Prey Nup we had 2 nights Revival meetings last October 25-26 and 271 came to attend with 34 came forward to be saved.
Baptism: In Prey Nup 6 were baptized and in Phnom Penh 8 were added to the church.
Church Anniversary and Building Dedication: Pastor Phirun in Treng Trayueng was happy to use the new church building that could seat 250 during the 5th anniversary. We dedicated the new building on November 7 with a total attendance of 240 and 19 made professions of faith. Now we have to work hard to fill up the new building.
Indochina Bible Institute: Our church based “roaming” Bible School continues to train young men and ladies. Last November 7 we graduated Bro. Chan Rottanak and Bro. Tong Borin. We also gave Christian Life Certificates to Bro. Rithy, Bro. Hul, Sister Thavana and Sister Thavin as they have finished the 1st year curriculum.
Primary Schools: With our limited space and teachers we had to stop enrolling new comers. In Prey Nup we have 22 students and in Treng Trayueng we have 43 students as of year end. We need more teachers and helpers.
Family: October 8 -11, we went to Bangkok for my annual cancer check up. All were negative results. But I have to take anti-hypertension drugs to protect my kidneys. Grace had her blood chemistry checked too and all was well and so are the boys. Just pray that God will heal Grace’s perforated left ear drum. Penny is praying to go for another year of studies so that she can have Double Majors in Music Performance and Information Technology.
Endorsement and Move: Since December 2007 we had been praying to plant a church in Kampong Cham City. It is the gateway to the north-east, 124 kilometers along highway 7, north of Phnom Penh towards Vietnam and southern Laos. Kampong Cham city has a population of over 110,000 And the whole province has a population of 2 million people. There were NO Baptist Missionaries in the whole province until we went. This province is also the strong hold of the Muslim Community. Therefore on November 25, I endorsed all the churches and mission ministries along national route 4 to the Cambodian national Pastors. Pastor Ngeoun Sitha helps supervise.
December 1st we moved to Kampong Cham city. Brothers Rithy and Somnang and Sister Thoun came with us to form TEAM Kampong Cham. We are renting a $500 per month house church just at the back of the provincial capitol and Military base. For the last 5 weeks we had an average attendance of 36. December 26, 4:00 PM we had our Christmas program with 73 in attendance and 48 souls were saved. People came from Soung City as well.
This new year our theme is “We will SHARPEN our Soul winning, Home Bible Studies, Activities for Edification and fellowship, Revival Fires,Personal Growth and mentoring, Equipping the saints and Nation building in 2011.”
Please pray for our needs :
- 1 Sound System and speakers
- 40 chairs
- 25 song books
- 50 Bibles
- 10,000 Cambodian Gospel tracts
- 2 motorbikes for 2 preachers
- 5 tables for the Bible Institute.
Yours for the Harvest of souls in Indochina,
Lomer Hope and Grace Dela Cruz
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