Friday 7 September 2018

Journey To Cambodia

When I think of my journey to Cambodia, I think of when God first laid the burden for Cambodia in my heart in 2015.  I thought I will just apply with a Missionary agency and in a few weeks I will be in a plane to Cambodia.  What I did not know then was that it was going to be a process and to get to Cambodia will take longer than I had anticipated.

It has been 3 years since God laid the burden in my heart and I am still not in Cambodia.  I started my application with OMF in June 2016 when I was still training with the Navigators.  In January 2018, I started my support raising in preparation for Cambodia.  Overseas Mission Fellowship (OMF) whom I am going to serve with needed me to have four clearances before I could go.  I needed the Medical Clearance, Homeside Clearance, Field Clearance and Financial Clearance.  By the grace of God, I received all the four clearances by the end of June 2018.  

I will be leaving for Singapore in October 22nd 2018 for 3 weeks of orientation and trusting God to be in Cambodia in November 20th 2018.  I will be in Cambodia for an initial commitment of 3 years and my first assignment will be to learn the Khmer language and the Cambodian culture for a year.  The next two years I will be involved in ministry assignments as my leaders see fit.  I am really excited and I can’t wait to get to Cambodia.  One of the promises God has given me is in Matthew 28:19-20 which tells me that he will be with me.

At the Navigators Send Off – being 
prayed for and commissioned to go.
Going forward, please: -         
    • Thank God for the progress thus far and for support I have received from partners, friends and my sending church – Deliverance Church Kahawa Sukari (DCKS)
    • Pray that God will raise partners to stand with me for the remaining needed support so that I will have all that I need to do the work in Cambodia (2 Cor 9:8)
    •  Pray that as I go to Cambodia, I will have a smooth transition and that God will give me knowledge and skill and that I will be quick to learn the Khmer language and culture( Daniel 1:17)
    •  Pray that the 42 people groups in Cambodia will hear the gospel and that they may put their faith in Christ who die for them (Rev 5:9)