Friedberg Happenings

This year at our home church in Pniet, a section of Stung Meanchey, we had a Christmas service outreach.In Cambodia ,the churches have outreaches all through the month of December. We had over 150 (about 50 were kids) come to check us out. Maybe 15 were church members and Christians. The rest  come because it very interesting for  them  to see what we are doing ,  but mainly  they come to get free food.

We had Christmas music ,kids special songs, an evangelistic sermon and showed an  Cambodian outreach video, while we feed them with  Khmer noodles with fish.

Overall it was quite interesting.

 

Setting up

Practicing the music

Sochea leading the kids ,in practice, for the special music.

 

They sang “this is the day that the Lord has made” in Khmer. The kids are not Christians and are from Sochea’s English class

 

Watch out a guy with a food cart wants to pass.

Church gals prep the food(the U-90 paint buckets are only used for water- I think

They can’t wait for the service to start

The sound was blasting with these speakers.

The seats are filling up

Some arrive on tuk- tuks

The singers Borey ,Navi  and Sochea

We had 110 chairs .

It is getting more crowded now.

Casey and Micah just arrived actually on time the place filled up early

Joanie,Casey’s mom looks like she is praying?

Evan sitting on a water pot

Markus preaching the Good News

After the message , food is served

Most people stayed to eat and watch the Christian video.

 

Saying goodbye

Let’s take a moto ride, hopefully Evan ,in the back isn’t sleeping already.

  Jordan and here fifth grade class from Logos went on a field trip to a neat ministry here in the outskirts of Phnom Penh.  It is called the “place of rescue”. It is a ministry to orphans of parents killed by AIDS,those with AIDS,  and to older women. They have a school and clinic for the over two hundred people  that they minister too. It was started by a women from Canada , Marie Ens.She was here in the 1960’s until 1975. Then she had to leave due to the war.She came back in the 1990’s and has been ministering here since.

Jordan’s class was the first class to ever visit  them ,as a field trip. They played games with the kids and listened as Marie gave a talk to them. The Logos  kids actually prayed for Marie which was a great blessing.

 

 

A rice field near the Place of Rescue

 

 

Just arriving 

Marie Ens and Shirley Purcell , Jordan’s teacher

Playing “duck duck ,goose” with the Kids

Kids from the place of rescue.

Casey chatting with another classmates’ mom.

Marie sharing to the class.

The class praying for Marie and the ministry.

 

A mom with her baby.

 

Miss Soporean ,Jordie’s teacher assistant, with one of the grannies.

Jordie’s class.

 

Jordie and Marie Ens.

 

The sign in Khmer reads” save people without hope  ” which really means rescue.

That’s what they are doing there , giving hope to the hopeless and needy.