As for our students in the Discipleship Program, it has been almost a year since we have separated into the boys' dorm and girls' dorm. Last few weeks, we have been busy preparing a “Report Card” for each of our students with personal comments. Our student leaders also helped us to grade their performance. Each student is graded on the following areas: attendance, class participation, homework, cleanliness, helpfulness, obedience (to the rules and listen to the leaders), and Bible interests.
We are happy to see half of our students had given an overall “A” grade for their performance and their eagerness to learn. We are also happy to see some of the students seem to have growing interests in learning and pay more attention in Bible studies and worship after the Gospel Camp in April. Even though we can never tell whether they have truly changed to follow Jesus, we are happy to see the seeds were sewed and we prayed that one day God will let the seed sprout and they will become the true disciples!
On the other hand, a handful of our students have been given warnings of their behaviors, and if they did not make any changes, they will be asked to leave the program. We pray that God will change their hearts, and listen to God’s Words, humble themselves, accept that we are all sinners and repent, and to follow Jesus.
How about ourselves? Who is given us the report card? As we stumble through our life, we know God is watching over us all the time on whatever we do. Although we live in Cambodia, a poor country that seems to lack of everything, but we know the only one thing that we all need is to know God and follow Him. So, when we call ourselves Christians and followers of Jesus, we are the representatives of God in our daily lives. And here is a prayer from our family: “Dear heavenly Father, wherever we go or whatever we do, may we be the salt and light for others, and to glorify your Name, so that others will know you are the only one and true God. "
As for our family, we are very excited that we will be visiting Chicago in July! This is our first trip back to USA after leaving 6 years ago. Joelle doesn't even recall what Chicago looks like =) We will be sharing our ministry at our Chicago church CBCNWS and with other fellowships. Please pray for us for our health and safe travel!
Looking forward to meeting with our friends in the Chicago area!
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| Our students' grades - this is the draft result from our discussion with student leaders |
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| Fellowship night on Sat -- Joelle is eating her dinner while being the Projectionist. |
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| Worship on Sunday |
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| New Testament Bibles in English and Khmer. We used it for class when we studies the 4 Gospels and Romans. We also just borrowed 14 Bibles (New and Old Testament) in June from another mission group from Hong Kong to study Old Testament because we do not have the budget to purchase new Bibles for all the students. |
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| During Sunday worship - Gryphon and Joelle has been sitting in the back although the weather is up to 40C with only 1 fan in the back |
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| Every Sat during Fellowship, Amy introduces new hymns to the students to sing, so that the students learns that good hymn can help them to know more about Bible. |
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| This is one of our architecture student's homework -- A Khmer traditional building |
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| Amy discussed homework with one of the scholarship students after Sunday worship |
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| SURPRISE!! We started a new series for our Sunday messages, and last Sunday when we start to on Exodus, we have a visitor from Israel joined the worship. She is a Messianic Jew! Praise the Lord!! She came with a university student group on a social work trip |
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