The last two weeks, Josie and I joined the girls’ team serving at a learning center: a supplemental school offering English, Chinese, and computer classes to students. Everyone on the team was paired with an English teacher and served as a teacher’s assistant for the time at the school. For me, this looked like anything from pronouncing English words and letters for the class, to writing things on the board while the teacher taught, to helping keep the class orderly and assisting students during activities, to grading quizzes. We each helped with about 3 1-hour classes spread throughout the day, with a couple hours around noon for a lunch break and rest time.
This school isn’t explicitly a Christian school to my knowledge, but it does operate according to Biblical guidelines and the staff are all believers. And that’s significant. One day while talking with the teacher I was serving with, she told me how the parents in the community trust the teachers here and the “Jesus place” so much that they let their kids come early to the school to hang out – but they normally don’t let kids do that! The level of trust this place and these people have with the local community, who mostly don’t know the Lord, is SUCH a testimony to the power of the Lord in His people. It shows how our ministry and witness, just our lives lived as followers of Christ, can be indirect but still super impactful!
Another aspect of serving with this school was being part of the Sunday church service and youth group held on their premises. Many of the kids from this youth group had gone to the youth camp that some of us helped with a couple weeks ago, and we got to be at a service where they shared testimonies of what God had done in their lives there! I think every one said that, out of everything, their favorite parts were worship and spending dedicated quiet time with the Lord, which was SO powerful to hear. Proof of seeds being planted and fellowship with God being fostered through camp! ❤️
With those two weeks done, we’ve arrived at our LAST week of “official” ministry on the Race. 🤯 Praise the Lord for His faithfulness to bring us all the way to this point! Our whole squad will be visiting and ministering in local villages this week, and even staying out in a village for a couple of nights. Please join us in praying that this time would be fruitful and part of bringing the Kingdom to this area of Cambodia!
