Well things are definitely on the move!! I started
our first Free English Classes on Thursday and I have 10 students already.
We meet every week day morning from 7am for one hour. They are so keen that most mornings they arrive about 10 minutes early, ready for lessons!! Learning English here is a big need, as to get a good job you need to be able to speak English. It can be expensive to learn and so given the opportunity to learn for free is a big excitement for them. They are attentive and interactive and a real joy to teach. Praise God that they get such a vital tool to help them in their future like this. Pray that the students will come to church and find the real answer to their future.
Our first and most exciting miracle is the pregnancy of one of our members. She has been married for 4 years now and her and her husband have been trying to fall pregnant for quite some time. When we found this out we prayed immediately that she would fall pregnant and bear a beautiful, healthy child and all would go well with her pregnancy. When Pastor Claude visited in March he also prayed for this to happen. Last week she went to the Doctor who confirmed she is pregnant and due February next year. Praise God for his goodness in answering her prayers, please continue to pray for her pregnancy that all will go well for both of them and after the birth also. They are both jumping for joy and praising God for He is the one that knows our needs.
Another miracle was in a healing for an elderly mother of one of our members. Her mother had a blood disorder and was on a drip and bed ridden. The doctor was seeing her at her home but she was not improving. We went to visit her in her village and layed hands on her and prayed for a miraculous healing of her blood and an increase in her red blood cells. She said that she felt a real warmth flow through every part of her body and both Mark and I felt the same thing. Well now she is off the drip, walking around and getting better and stronger every day. Isn't God the best thing ever????
We meet every week day morning from 7am for one hour. They are so keen that most mornings they arrive about 10 minutes early, ready for lessons!! Learning English here is a big need, as to get a good job you need to be able to speak English. It can be expensive to learn and so given the opportunity to learn for free is a big excitement for them. They are attentive and interactive and a real joy to teach. Praise God that they get such a vital tool to help them in their future like this. Pray that the students will come to church and find the real answer to their future.
Our first and most exciting miracle is the pregnancy of one of our members. She has been married for 4 years now and her and her husband have been trying to fall pregnant for quite some time. When we found this out we prayed immediately that she would fall pregnant and bear a beautiful, healthy child and all would go well with her pregnancy. When Pastor Claude visited in March he also prayed for this to happen. Last week she went to the Doctor who confirmed she is pregnant and due February next year. Praise God for his goodness in answering her prayers, please continue to pray for her pregnancy that all will go well for both of them and after the birth also. They are both jumping for joy and praising God for He is the one that knows our needs.
Another miracle was in a healing for an elderly mother of one of our members. Her mother had a blood disorder and was on a drip and bed ridden. The doctor was seeing her at her home but she was not improving. We went to visit her in her village and layed hands on her and prayed for a miraculous healing of her blood and an increase in her red blood cells. She said that she felt a real warmth flow through every part of her body and both Mark and I felt the same thing. Well now she is off the drip, walking around and getting better and stronger every day. Isn't God the best thing ever????
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| Water Filter and Fan for the family |
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| 3 pairs of happy eyes |
While we were out in the village we took with us a free standing fan and a
water purification bucket. The water they were drinking was straight from a
small stream and the only fan they had for the whole family was one small desk
fan. How grateful they were for such small gifts. The old man had trouble with
his eyes and was not able to read. He is a Christian and wanted to read his
bible. I was given some reading glasses by my parents which I took to the
village and we went through them and one of them was just the right lens. His
wife and sister came over and asked if I had any more as they had the same
problem, I did have some more and I had ones that they could use too. They were
so grateful and the old man did not stop thanking me the whole time we were there.!!
This sort of thing brings joy to our soul and we know we are here for a
reason!!
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| Under the Umbrella at Lake Baray |
On Sunday we took 13 children and 13 adults out to Lake Baray, which is only about 17 kilometres from Siem Reap.
We had a great day of fun and fellowship with soccer balls, footballs and badminton racquet's for sand play and tyre tubes for water sport. It was a great time to get to know each other in a different setting and everyone loved it. We booked a little restaurant out there and sat under the umbrellas on deck chairs, swung on the love seat or just lay on the mats. The children ate fried rice and the adults shared a Khmer BBQ. Then the rain came and came and came and came!!!! The place flooded in about 20 minutes. It did not stop them from swimming or playing games though, they just kept right on enjoying themselves (a lesson we can all learn)!!
Please keep us in your prayers and if you want to be involved in what we are doing either by bringing out teams to support our projects, provision of resources or finances then we would love to hear from you.
You can contact us through Facebook, email or phone.
Facebook -Mark Barham Marian Barham
Email - markb@c3r.org.au marianb@c3r.org.au
phone - +855 97 900 1182 +855 97 900 1183
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