Day 1 (Phnom
Penh)
Sharing by Pastor HP
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The one must thing for
Singapore Church Camp is to have durian. Up to a certain extent durian can be a
way for evangelism
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The cultural/background
understanding:
Karma VS Precious Life
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Life & Death is fate/does not really matter VS
every single life is precious in God’s eyes
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Cambodians are kind-hearted in
nature 天真
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You don’t need to be worried whether somebody is
trying to con you
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Cambodians have lots of past baggage
especially the war/genocide baggage
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It is not easy for them to understand the love of parents
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Cambodians have a strong
superior perspective towards foreigners and therefore viewing themselves as
inferior.
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The view at Olympic Stadium was
an eye-opening one. They were variety of activities: football, volleyball,
jogging, shot put铅球 kind of game, and aerobics. Aerobics
was the very special one because they were more than 7 different groups of
people (each with tens of people) dancing/exercising following the instructor
with music. People are from both male and female and comprise of different age
groups. Perhaps sports + music evangelism?
Day 2 (Phnom
Penh)
Location: The Killing Fields (The Choeung Ek Genocidal Center)
Testimony by a survivor:
“My mission was
to revenge. All my mother wanted was to see me safe and happy. She had even
forgiven the guy who killed my sister 30 years ago.
I see my mother
everywhere. I see my sister everywhere. I see the whole country as my family.
When I go out to
meet a woman who lost her child, I treat her like my mother. When I see a woman
who lost her child and is poor and who lost her brother and sister, I treat
them as my sister. They become like my whole family.
I see myself
like a broken glass and only myself can find the broken pieces and put it back
together in a personal way. Everyone has different means to put their pieces
together. I do this on my own and this is the only way.
Genocide to be
prevented is so important because it will destroy the strength of humanity and
will destroy the family not just physically but also emotionally.
Reconciliation is not about talking to each other. It’s
the responsibility and obligation of each and every victim to put all these
pieces together.”
Day 3 (Phnom
Penh)
Location:
Toul Sleng Genocidal Museum
My thought: A school can be a place educating the next
generation and it can also be a place of destroying the whole nation.
20th Century Catastrophes (Source:
Wikipedia):
Day 4 (Siem
Reap)
Travelled by Mekong Express from Phnom
Penh to Siem Reap
Departure : 7.30am
Arrival : 2.30pm
7 HOURS!!!
Day 5 (Siem
Reap)
Location: Temple Tour (Angkor Wat)
Day 6 (Siem
Reap)
Location: The Silk Farm
We cycled for 30km under the hot sun (36° Celsius)
Observation on the family during dinner
- Contented
with life where wife lying down after taking order and husband lying down after
cooking, son & daughter having dinner with a bowl of fried rice each and as
well as a bowl of soup.
Day 7 (Siem
Reap)
Location: BOL Church
The special boy
We visited the BOL Church in Siem Reap. After greetings with one another we sung praise and
worship songs in Khmer. Although I don’t understand the language but some of
the songs were actually the English/Chinese worship songs we sing in Malaysia.
As we were in the midst of singing the
worship songs, my heart was hoping that this ‘special’ boy would not come near
to me because I simply didn’t know how to handle and didn’t want to handle at
all. It was really a struggle within because on one hand I was worshiping the
Lord and on the other hand I knew that God loves this boy just the same as
other brothers and sisters. How could I worship Him
with my mouth and at the same time deep down in my heart I treated the boy with
different perception?
The fact is that the boy came to me and
seated beside me several times. I think God was
teaching me to love him with His compassionate heart. The boy was taking
initiative to not only sit beside me, shake hands with me, touch me, put his
head on my shoulders, hug me and etc. Inside me, I was rebuking myself how can
I ignore this boy when I am called the disciple of Christ? God humbles me and I
started to respond to the boy by pressing his hand with mine, looking at him
and touching his fingers. To my surprise I even prayed silently that God will
heal his little finger which cannot be straightened. I had the urge to wash his
hands after the service and thank God he gave me the courage to do so by
cleaning the painting stains on his hands.
What is the meaning of
obeying Christ? Do I selectively obey Him or in full obedience I follow Him? It
is not easy yet I pray that God will help me to obey Him completely.
Sharing by G&B
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A blank
piece of paper and let God do the drawing
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Calling to be His people
and calling to be obedient
The
Korean Dinner
Asking a new Christian about the
challenges that she faced:
“I prayed”
“I am prepared”
“If asked, I will say
that I am a Christian but I don’t know what will happen after that.”
The salvation of Jesus is
so real in her life. Although her rich and
powerful uncle warned her that discontinuation of relationship will take place
if she embraces her faith, yet she is prepared to admit that she is a
Christian.
After that, I think the missionary
suggested wisely on the fact that to be silent is more effective in such
circumstance. Just be silent. Because your action speaks louder than your words.
Jesus also be silent in certain circumstances.
Another missionary amazed at the work of God saying that “we don’t know
how towards the problems of the people but we just pray and God will show the
way to the person”.
a) From KLIA2 to Phnom Penh (27th April, Departure: 6.45am, Arrival: 8.35am)
b) From Siem Reap to KLIA2 (04th May, Departure: 9.35am, Arrival: 11.35am)
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