Dear Friends,
We send you a HappyThanksgiving greeting! Wish you all a warm, festive, and blessed holiday as you will spend times with family and friends.
Here are some updates from Cambodia that we want to share with you. You may have been aware about Mrs. Moum’s situation, a new believer from Malay house church who was arrested and put in prison, since May 10, for a crime she didn’t commit. According to the International Workers from Poipet, she finally has a hearing date which is scheduled for November 14th. Unless God choose to intervene on her behalf by moving the hearts of the judge and authorities, we feel that her case is hopeless against the injustice and corruptive law systems. Please pray for Mrs. Moum’s three grown daughters. Through these difficult ordeals, they must have many doubts and questions about God and their reasons for trusting Him. Please pray, whatever the outcome of this hearing may be, that her faith, and the faith of her daughters, would not be shaken. Pray for God’s will to be done in her life.
Earlier in June, (just a short time before we left Poipet for America), because of their unrepented hearts, the Poipet church committees had asked two of the key church leaders to step down from their roles of service in church ministry. The northwest Regional Church Committees (RCC) had been immediately informed and involved. Now that we are here in the States, we are learning (from missionaries there) that one of these former leaders, “S”, has been, privately, using his influences to spread lies, gossips, and rumors among the church families, causing much heartache, division, and confusion within the church body. As the result, one house church (one of the ten house churches) has recently decided to leave the KEC (KEC is under the umbrella of Christian and Missionary Alliance) and chose to be loyal to this man. Please pray, despite of the evil things that have been done, that the Spirit of Truth would shine forth, and that GOD would deliver justice and protect HIS children according to HIS perfect will and plan. These are HIS people, HIS church, and HI is still in control of all things. Pray for healing and unity among the church families. Please pray for wisdom and discernment, courage and boldness, joy and encouragement, for the International Workers and the remaining 4 church leaders as they are faithfully serving there.
We also learned that many Cambodians, from the northwest regions of Cambodia, have been affected terribly by October’s prolonged heavy floods, which caused a lot of damages to houses, crops, and roads, making traveling and ministries very challenged. Many small children were drowned. Over three hundred dead has been reported so far.
Repeatedly, Scripture commanded us to “give thanks” and “rejoice in the Lord always”, but sometime I can not help but wonder, how does a person feel thankful or to rejoice when all the troubles of injustice and oppression, gossips and slanders, disasters and sickness, lies and hurts and confusions, all are constantly around him/ her? Please continue to pray for the believers of Cambodia.
Our family has many reasons to be thankful for.
We are grateful to God for providing good and godly friends and playmates for our sons! This was one of the areas of concern since the time we’ve first arrived in the United States (June) and we asked many of you to pray for us. And here how God answered prayers: Living very close to us are two other families if C&MA International Workers (from Hong Kong and Africa); each family has a son, Justin’s age (15), and all 3 boys attend the same school! Needless to say, the three missionary kids, plus another boy also from the same neighborhood, bonded immediately, and the four of them became instant buddies! Our energetic 9-year-old Jonathan: not only that he likes his new school, two of his good friends and classmates (2 boys) live in the same building as we! And the three active boys played together almost every day after school! Both of our sons are doing wonderful and are adjusting quite well to their new environments and schools. Praise GOD!
For those of you who are from the east coast, and who have been recently affected by the snow storm, please don’t be made at us. We’ve been praying for snow, and God gave us plenty, 8 inches of snow, and in October! Our sons had a blast playing snow ball fights and sledding off the hills around the Nyack College campus. Despite of the lack of power for 4 days and having to endure icy cold showers, we are thankful for this early snow! Tour has been wonderful. We continue to travel, as a family on weekends, to different churches, mostly from among the Metropolitan District, in the New York and New Jersey areas. We are GRATEFUL to GOD for every opportunity to share about the works that HE is doing in Cambodia and around the world; and we give HIM PRAISES as HIS people are responsive and hearts are stirred after they heard about HIS mighty works. And, as recipients to this, our family has been BLESSED, in so many ways, through the love and generosity of HIS children from every church that we visited.
We continue to be grateful to GOD, and to YOU, our faithful supporters and partnerships to the Poipet ministries. Your faithful and generous Giving to the general C&MA- Great Commission Fund (GCF) enables to us to keep on serving here, there, and everywhere. Keep put keep in touch. We would love to rejoice with what God is doing in your life and to be able to pray for you as well. Have a blessed holiday.
With thankful heart,
Soeuth & Syna
We are grateful to God for providing good and godly friends and playmates for our sons! This was one of the areas of concern since the time we’ve first arrived in the United States (June) and we asked many of you to pray for us. And here how God answered prayers: Living very close to us are two other families if C&MA International Workers (from Hong Kong and Africa); each family has a son, Justin’s age (15), and all 3 boys attend the same school! Needless to say, the three missionary kids, plus another boy also from the same neighborhood, bonded immediately, and the four of them became instant buddies! Our energetic 9-year-old Jonathan: not only that he likes his new school, two of his good friends and classmates (2 boys) live in the same building as we! And the three active boys played together almost every day after school! Both of our sons are doing wonderful and are adjusting quite well to their new environments and schools. Praise GOD!
