Sport day 2010

May the Lord bless you. Recently, MSC had been organizing programs one after another just like the ocean waves. Each week we have something new to work on, by the grace of the Lord, we really give thanks to the Lord for bringing MSC through all these. Very quickly we try to brief you one by one.

Last month, we had our year end exam for all the students. This month, we have few things going on. firstly, is the sport day. Secondly, is the English week and thirdly, our school closing ceremony and coming very soon that is on 2 August to 19 August MSC is going to have Holiday Training Camp 2010.

This letter will share about the highlight of the sport day. We have four different houses for the sport day. Each house has their own colour (green, yellow, red and blue) just like last year, but this year each house has been given names (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John). For us, SK is in Green house (Mark) and BW is in Red house (John). We were having several kinds of competitions and telematches. Thank to our good Lord, God has blessed the sport day and he had sent Sibu Wesley Methodist Church to help in the telematches. Not only that, our school prefects had gone through a great leadership program with the two of the team members and now they are ready to take their roles in the school. We really hope That this group of leaders will success in their life.

Another good news is that, this year we have more parents came and join the excitement. we do not count but from the crowd, we believed atlease another 20% more than previous year. Thank God.

Boys' and Girls' brigade were given an opportunity to march in for the 1st time in their life. Marching is very new thing for the girls' brigade here. In order to sucess this mission. they had been very diligently practise for 2 weeks.

We have attached fews photos and a video for you to feel the excitement of the sport day 2010. please enjoy.....

The Champion house

Marching parade short video clip

School Semester End

Wow! A year passed... We are approaching the end of the school year 2009/2010...

Dear PPs, sorry for the late update, we are especially very busy this month as many big events come back to back.

The school is closing soon at the end of this month, followed with two month Holiday and start all over again on October 2010 (New School Year). As this is the last month before the students dismisal, many big events come together. Please pray that God gives us strength and wisdom in completing all tasks onhand to glorify His name.

Please pray for us:

1. The school Annual Sport Day is going to be held on this coming Friday (23 July 2010). Besides the sport events as previous year, we have the Sibu Wesley mission team here right now. They are teaching the students for the telematch items (included in Sport Day). Something different with the previous year is that we have BB & GB drill as the opening ceremony for the Sport Day. Currently, the selected GB & BB students are practicing very hard for the drill. May God bless their health and grant them hearts to drill for God and not for their own pride. May God also lead and teach SK and BW in leading the students in drilling. May God also prepare the parents' heart to be willing to come to the Sport Day and discover the good Christian values that this school having and would like to know more about our God.

2. The Annual English Week is approaching the corner too. The English Week is held once a year for different contests for all students in the school (Primary1-Grade10). It will be held right after the Sport Day, on the following Monday and Tuesday (26 & 27 July 2010). This time, BW coordinates this project and works with the local English teachers to move this on. Pray that God will grant wisdom and patient to BW and all the English teachers who involve in this English Week.

3. The last school day is on 29 July 2010 (Thursday) with The Final Assembly Year 2009/2010 as the closing point. During this day, giving out academic prizes, computer studies excellence awards and BB Camp certificates will be conducted. Although we do not involve much in this, but please pray that God will prepare a wonderful weather for us.

4. On the first week of the school holiday, the HOLIDAY TRAINING CAMP 2010 will be started until the 3rd week of August. Since SK n BW will incharged the workshop this time, we are in the midst of preparing the materials and purchasing the items needed. Pray that God gives us strength and wisdom in the preparation.

Thanks for all your prayers. Thanks for remembering us always......

May God bless you abundantly...

Boys' Brigade Camp

Thanks to be our Father in heaven. Last month was an exciting month for BB's boys. We had conducted the 1st Boys' Brigade Camp for our boys. They were two officers from Singapore came to run the camp. The Camp's main purpose is to build up our boys to be a good servant leader, as Jesus Christ is also a servant leader. We had selected 28 boys out of 80 boys to join the camp. They enjoyed the camp very much.

We had our camp at COSI. COSI is the orphanage ran and supported by the Singapore Methodist Society. It is one of the misson works ministry just like our school as well in Cambodia.

During the camp, they were devided into four squads. Each squad contained 7 boys. They were different kinds of activities going on in the camp such as classroom lesson, CE, drill, tent making, teamwork games, served one another and served our neighbour. We give thanks to our God that through out the camp there were no serious injury. And we could notice that there was a great learning during the camp. We aslo give thanks to God that we were able to notice some good leaders among the boys. We hope God will continue to build them up through Boys' Brigade programs. Here are some of the pictures to share with you all.

Depart from school
Drill

Serve one another in the meal time

learn to build tent and camp at night somewhere in the paddy field.

Sleep in the tent at the paddy's field

Serve our neighbour by building the road

Friendly football match with COSI

Prayer items:

1. Pray that God will continue to use BB as a channel to build the boys to be a good servant leader.

2. May God give SK the wisdom to guide and lead the BB.

3. Pray for more commited officers that willing to make the BB to a better success.

Fire

This is the second time we grabbed the fire extinguishers and immediately rushed out of the school since these few month. The recent one happened yesterday....

Nearly 4:15pm, in the office, we heard the cries of girl... found out that our students' house is on fire. This family sent all 4 of their children to study in this school. While contacting the principal, we rushed out with another 2 teenagers stayed in school to their house.

On the way, stuck in the traffic jam, from far, we saw the thick smoke coming out from their house's direction. In my heart, Oh God, there must be a serious condition by looking at the smoke. Please Lord, send the rain now.... In Phnom Penh, we are having problem with water supplied for fire engines. There is not fire hydrant elsewhere and the fire engines have to go forth n back to refill the water. This caused delay to the rescueing process. Furthermore, most of the cambodia houses are connected so closed to each other, and made of wood... Lord, pls protect your children over there, protect their safety and their property....

When we reached their house, we have to parked the car at the main road (the road into that area was closed by police). Holding the fire extinguishers, we managed to get the motortaxi to drive us in.... looking at the fire, we found the fire extinguishers useless...

We have two student families there, one is four houses away from the house which was on fire now n separated by a small road, the other is on the same row, 3 houses away. The rest of the time, was packing and evacuating all the things in our students' house, including bed, clothes, furniture... wahtever that we can take away to their neighbour's house at the other side of the area. Running forth n back, feeling the heat of the fire, seeing firemen tried their best to stop the fire from spreading to the next house, looking at the thick smoke coming out from the house, heard people crying, help to spray water on the roof to reduce the heat....

Lastly, when the night came, the fire almost stopped in that house., didn't spread out to the neghbouring area. Oh, thank God. He didn't send the rain, but with another way, He spared His children's property there....

These two families stayed out of the house that night to safeguard on the remainding small fire in the burning house. But everyone seemed released and waiting to put the things back in their house on the next morning. We saw tears of joy from their eyes and the shout of praising god from their mouths. The house on fire is a warehouse selling gas and paint. Praise the Lord that He kept the fire in...

This is our first experience to be so closed to the fire... sk was even captured (for few seconds) in a local TV news snapshot (when he was spraying water on to the roof)...

Praise the Lord... We witness Your faithfulness to Your people, Lord!

Thanks for the wonderful journey back to Malaysia

Thank God for the wonderful journey back to Kuching, Penang, and dropped by Singapore. Although the journey was a bit tired as we needed to meet up a lot of people and settled a lot of documentation, but we did enjoy the time with our family and friends.

Thank God for helping us in a lot of documentation that we needed to complete during that period such as renewing passport, renewing driving liciense, income tax....

Thank God for preparing different people in our trip that such as Duan Yee family from Singapore, VIctoria, Chin Daw church's friends, a friend that help us to look for taxi in Penang, and our family members. May God bless them for being kind to us.

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Coming back to Phnom Penh, soaked in an extremely hot n dry season now. This period is the end of Hot season n the beginning of raining season... This year is much much hotter than before... my shirt got wet (by sweat) several times a day. Please pray that we are healthy to endure with the hot weather.

For the work, get into busyness again. Sk attended a short biblical course these few days (Wed and Thurs) in Methodist Bible School here. So bw chose to stay back n help in teaching his classes. Thank God that He gave enough wisdom and strength for her to conduct all the 4 classes for these few days.

As a result of the course, sk seems to gain some new insights about the relationship with God. Everyday, he came back and shared with bw. As we are going to complete our mission term next year. Pls pray for us that God opens our eyes and shows His plan for us for the next few years.

Thanks for be with us all these while. May God bless you n your family...

They are back...

A week passed, the team went to Singapore finally came back to Phnom Penh safely. The two boys and the teachers all seems healthy and full of joy. This is an eye opening trip for them to know about the Boys' Brigade in Singapore. They had chance to participate in some programs and observed the operation of the BB there. They had opportunity to visit to MMS office and BB HQ too. Thanks for the Singapore team from Bedok Church in hosting them with love and patience. Thanks to some friends over there that volunteerly brought them out for a walk or some meals.

May God continue to equip the Cambodian BB team so that they will try their best to lead the BB in MSC to be closer to God's plan.

Follow-up:

1. There will be the first BB camp in the month of May to train up approx. 30 leaders chosen among the boys and BB teachers in the school.

2. There will be a BB mission team from Singapore to come to the school for demonstrating and guiding the drill and other areas by the end of the year.

* Pray that all these follow-ups planned would be carried out smoothly and glorify God's name.

* Thanks for all the prayers that up-hold them during this period of time. Praise the Lord.

*** We will be back to Malaysia on April... see you all then in Chin Daw Church, Kuching.

Pray for SK

Dear PPs,

As involving in Boys' Brigade in the school, sk will lead a team to Singapore next week (17 March to 23 March) for a conference. This is the first time for him to lead a 'team' out of the country. Furthermore, we have another 3 teachers and 2 secondary students in that team, 4 of them have never traveled abroad before. Please pray for the team:

1. May God protect and smoothen their journey to Singapore and back to Cambodia.

2. May God protect their health as the Cambodian teachers and students might be able to adjust themselves to the food and the weather in Singapore.

3. May God grant sk wisdom to deal with any circumstances that might occur next week.

4. As the schedule for the conference is very tied, may God give them strength and energy to absorb and understand the lessons.

5. May God open their eyes to see the blessing and mercy of this opportunity granting to them.

Thanks for your support in prayers, we appreciate your participation in our work very much. May God bless you in your work and family.