Journey with God: #24 - Sept 16th Birthday and 2nd Day of Protest... getting very violent

(Sept 16th, 2013) We made the decision to not to defer the first day of work for all our new local teachers and receptionist on late Sunday night and all the staff seem to be ok with the decision. On Monday morning, we started the day just like any other day by rushing the kids to finish breakfast and get out of the house to go to school. When we are about 300 meters away from the school entrance we realized the street is extremely quite; when we pulled up to the entrance the security guard told us the school is close today. Gryphon and Joelle have no choice but come with us to the new center and we were praying there won't be any problem on the way to the center especially having them with us. Praise God that all of us including the new staff arrived at the center without any problem.

We have a great day with the new staff going thru a new staff orientation, discussing the expectation, rules, procedures that we created. All of them seem to be very excited and very happy with their new job at our center. Praise God for providing us with a group of young Christians to work with us. We will take this God given opportunity to train and disciple them to be more mature in Christ and also to be better teachers. Tomorrow we will start the teacher's training!

The protest becomes more violent by the hour. One person died on Sunday night and several injured during various different clashes between the police and the protesters. Pray for peace and safety among all the people here in Cambodia.

Thank you for all the birthday wisher and we appreciate so much for remembering us in your prayers; we are reminded every day that we are not here alone.