BW's New Roles

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Hello from Cambodia.

May the Lord be with you in this new year.

Update for BW for Computer Course in school:

Since bw is working on the computer courses in school. Lately, we have added a few computer programs for different needs.

1st: Training for our school teacher on Microsoft office, excel, etc..

As the exam system in Cambodia is computerized now, all the exam papers need to be printed and no longer handwritten. We provide some basic training for our teachers.

2nd: Computer's club for Grade 8 to Grade 10.

Due to there are some upper Grade's students who are good in computer, this is to give them more opporunity to learn others program beside our school co-curriculum. We are specifically trained them in movie editing, as the future school movie might be able to be created by our students themselves.

3rd: Internet Access during school lunch break.

During this period of time, the upper grade's students always hang around at the cyber cafes nearby our school. This Internet Access facilities can attract them to stay back in school, rather than loiter out there. PTL, we have 10 computers that can online now.

Beside the computer programs, in this new school year, BW started to help in GB's programs on Saturdays morning 7am to 9am.

Prayer items:

1. May God give her wisdom and strength to manage all the computer programs.

2. BW is sick. She's having fever and cough. pray that God will heal her in His almighty way.

Christmas Assembly 2009

With the mercy from the Lord, the Christmas Assembly 2009 started and finished in such a blessed weather. The few days before the assembly, we struggled with sweat and the imagination of students have to sit under the big, hot sun. Suprisingly, on the assembly's morning, we had such a wonderful, cloudly, windy morning. Praise the Lord that all the students and teachers can enjoy a wonderful morning...

Around 150 guests turned up, including students' parents, relatives and friends. Throughout the different programs such as dance, songs and dramas which related to the message of Christmas. We wish that the holy spirit of Lord worked in the guests, students and teachers' hearts, so that the message about our Lord, Jesus will impact their life.

For us, this seems to be an end to the busyness throughout these Christmas season. May all the glory be unto God, and may His name be heard near or far. May we also have a good rest during the school holidays (24/12 to 3/1). Merry Christmas!! This is a good time to revisit our Saviour in the manger!!

Dedication Service + Opening Ceremony

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

May God bless you in this festive seasons.

Our school has gained a lot of blessing throughout these period too. With the completion of the new school building, we had the Dedication Service on last Friday morning, on the windy new rooftop. We dedicated this building for the marvelous works that God has been doing and he is going to do on this piece of land. May this building continuously become a blessing to Cambodian and bring forth the good message of God.

After the dedication service, we continued with the opening ceremony and invite the Singapore ambassador and team to join the ceremony. The day ended with a refreshment for guests and our special BB & GB teams.

New School Year

Dear brothers and sisters,

May the peace of God be with you, continuously.

Sorry for being late this month, as the starting of the new school year, we are busy in getting the class and students ready. Furthermore, we are both class teacher for Grade 8 and Grade 7, there are more things that we need to look into compared to only teaching English last year.

New School Year

We thank God that He had provided us a good start in this school year. The new building construction is ready for our secondary students right before they came back to school on the month of October. Although there are still minor touch up of the construction here and there in the school, but all the students have proper class to use now.

For this new school year, we have enrollment of 700 students (Nursery + Kindergarten + Primary + Secondary), compared to last year figure on 540 students. We also have increased teachers to 45 full time and 17 part time. We have a bigger family in the school this year.

Our New Responsibilities

There are some changes in our responsibilities too in the school. We shall update it next week.

Thanks for be with us in prayers and supports. As the start of school year, please pray for us:

1. Pray for the wisdom and love for the students as we are their class teachers, English teachers and Christian Education (CE) teachers now. We are really excited in becoming their CE teachers. This is a golden opportunity to let the students know more about gospel. Pray that we have wisdom and strength from God in handling this.

2. As more works in coming in now, pray for the better time management in our works and also spiritual life.

3. We have started the Level 3 Khmer language learning, pray for enough energy to study after the whole day works.

May God be your strength and shield wherever you are!!

Visitation cum video for drama (HTC2009)

Dear brothers and sisters,

May the peace of God be with you n your family.

Visitation

The visitation to students home has been completed on the beginning of the week. As the purpose of the visitation is to link the church and the students'families, we worked together with the pastor incharge of Toul Kork Church (Toul Kork Church is located within the school compound). We managed to go to 20 families of the non-sponsored secondary students.

Some parents welcomed us warmly by inviting us for lunch and served us with snacks. For most of the parents, they were touched and thankful that we do care about their children and willing to pay visit to their houses. Family visitation is not commonly practice in Cambodia yet. Thank God for the wonderful time with the families.

Do you still remember about the drama presented by students in the last day of HTC2009?

Here you are.... There would be another better version of complete HTC2009 event ---> It will be presented in Chin Daw Church's prayer meeting soon.

Please pray for us:

1. The school is under construction now... It has to get ready before school starts on October. Pray that the construction will be ready on time and the students will have a comfort place for study when they come back on 1st of October.

2. Now we are busy for setting up networks for school n computer room. As we never set up any network before, pray that G will grant us wisdom and knowledge in setting it up. Today, we had a try on the main router and it worked as aspected. Praise the Lord! There are another 2 LANs need to be set up.

3. Besides, bw is trying her best to finish the new computer syllabus. Pray that G grant her wisdom in establishing the syllabus and use her skills to glorify G's name.

HTC 2009 3rd week update!!!

Dear All,

Let's share some of the photos on the third week....

The 11th day

Topic: God is always there "Jehovah Shammah"

Workshop: Teamwork game

In the photo: The boy need to turn 10 rounds and carry a stick to hit the coconut. His team mates need to hold him incase he fell down.

In the photo: Coconut bowling

In the Photo: 6 men 7 legs

The 12th day

Topic: God is always there Part 2

Workshop: Budget planner

In the photo: One of the team was preparing their best BBQ chicken

In the Photo: Students manage their limited "coupon" to buy the raw material for their cuisine.

In the Photo: Teacher was buzy in helping too

In the photo: Teacher Vim was assigned to sell the seasoning and sauces

The 13th day

Topic: God is our shepherd "Jehovah Rohi"

Workshop: Practised for the drama on the following day. Titles of the drama were taken from the previous 13 days lessons.

The 14th day

Closing Ceremony cum drama presentation.

Video for the drama is coming soon.......

Praise God for HTC2009

Dear brothers and sisters that prayed for us throughtout this period...

The HTC2009 lastly held its closing on 27 Aug 2009... it closed wonderfully with a revision by drama presentation for the 10th selected lessons that we have gone through in 14 days time. Of course it ended up with some fingerfood for our teachers and students too.

We have so much in heart to give thanks to God for be with us in this camp:

1. God gave us strength

As there is only three of us in the organisation team, most of the preparation tasks are on us. However, everytime when we felt tired after the morning camp (we need to start preparation for the net day in the afternoon n sometime dragged till night). God always gave us new strength to continue with a grateful and happy heart.

2. God provided all our needs

We need good weather for the outdoor activities, God provided (at the moment, the school still do not have a big hall that can accommodate more than hundred children. We need money to run the show, God provided. We need helpers for each team (we have 10 teams), God provided 2 teachers for each team. We need materials for the lesson, God provided a wonderful materials by knowing Him more through different name of Himself. We need speakers for everyday messages, God provided His servants from Singapore, Sarawak n in-house Singapore pastors. We need prayers to protect all of us, we have a group of faithful missionary friends from Sarawak to pray for us n provide physical helps if needed (they helped us to spare a lot of recycled materials too for the activities). And God also provided you, our prayer partners to become the strong pillars behind us n this work. Thank God so so so much.

3. God is be with us

In this camp, there was a cheating case happened where a boy cheat on the money (coupon) of another team during the cooking session (they used coupon as money to "buy" materials for their team cooking). As the judges checking out the issues, found out that the boy's team purchased the materials which worth more than the coupon that they had been given. The disiplinary action was taken place immediately after the incident.

However, that afternoon, when we checked out the photos taken. Found that there is one photo that showed the incident --- it was really a shock for us as what we didn't see, God showed it to us through randomly taken photographs. for the boy n the team, I think this is really a living testimony to them that God is always there to watch out what we are doing (so coincidently, the topic for that day is "Jehovah Shammah - God is always there").

4. God loves Cambodian

in this 14 days, as days passed, we saw the students changed gradually, although is slow, but progressing. For bw's group, started with "forcing" the students to pray for the snack time n during lesson time, till the last day --- the students waited for her for 15 minutes before they started eating, just to wait for her to come n pray together before they started eating. This is a wonderful and touching eperience for her.

In other teams, we saw also the team spirit of the students changed gradually, heart of selfishness lessen with the increase of loving each others in the camp. some life are touched and even teachers admitted they knowing God more through this camp.

God is here, not only with Malaysian or Singaporean, He also stand with Cambodian people here, will you join the line?

we are going to Singapore today, n will be back on Monday -- to attend the fund raising dinner for the school and other ministry. Please pray for our journey mercy. We shall update you more when we come back. May God be with you...