Dear Friends and Partners,
Trust you are all well and blessed. Herewith our latest Prayer Newsletter update for our valued Prayer Partners.
First and foremost, THANK YOU for praying. As always, God hears – and answers. Read on, and be amazed, and rejoice with us. Lots on the go and in the pipeline. All glory to God.
How time flies. As mentioned in the last Update, Robyn and I have booked flights to Cambodia and Vietnam, departing 4 December and coming home on 23 December. We have gone and returned. Theo has further booked flights to the same destinations for 29March to 23April’20. Teams will join with him to lend a hand. Praise God. There is much to do – “saving lives – Saving Souls!”
We are back! Mission accomplished . . . for now. PTL. Our Trip was a wonderful success, as follows . . .
Firstly, in the wake of our Trip we have a reinforced, clear “2020 Vision” for this year, and beyond. I thought God had us in ‘top gear’, but we are challenged for Him to put us into ‘overdrive’. So, “if God be for us, then who? can be against us?”. We accept.
In short, all went according to our carefully prepared, very busy itinerary. God is so good. We arrived in Phnom Pen the evening of 5th December and headed to our usual ‘guesthouse’. The next day we went with our local contact to the storage container out of the city and transferred all needed materials to our wonderful new storage close to the city. It has been provided by the President of the Cambodia Gideons, who are VERY active in Cambodia. He has shared some amazing accounts of favour wherever they operate. More on that in another Newsletter, as God is doing awesome things in Cambodia and beyond!
The following day we loaded up a van that we hired with some 300 Khmer Bbiles and drove to Pursat, some 4 hours away. There we met contacts and also a very active growing church and handed over the Bibles for them to distribute to the most needy Christians there. They were overjoyed. See pics. We then shared lunch together. We are planning to go there in future to do many Village Outreaches. We have already received many more requests for Khmer Bibles in several other locations. We are all grateful to the Lord, and a donor, for enabling us to economically buy 1000 Khmer Bibles, and helping to make all of this possible.
The next day we again loaded up the hired van with about 700 Khmer Bibles, 800 mozzie nets, water filters and Gospel Tracts, and headed up to Siem Reap, some 5 hours drive from Phnom Pen. From then on, starting the next day, and for the next 2 weeks, we went with an interpreter to many villages for Outreaches. Being Christmas time, several meetings attracted many invited, unsaved locals who then heard clear Gospel Presentations. At our Outreaches, many, many people were saved. Usually in the order of 90-100%. We saw miracles. We saw hearts touched. We saw God move on lives. And Jesus is building His Church, just like He said He would do. Amen. All of the many seeds that we have sown, over the years, will bear good fruits because God “is watching over His Word, to perform it”, and “His Word will not return to Him void without accomplishing its Purpose for which it was sent” ! What further assurance do we need that we are on a winner with God’s Word to the nations?
So after our productive time in Siem Reap we returned back to Phnom Pen – empty handed.
Here is an excerpt from our spreadsheet:
PEOPLE ATTENDING= 1000+ TRACTS = 2000
MOZZIE NETS = 830 KIDS ATTENDING= 500+
GIDEON NT BIBLES = 980 KHMER BIBLES: 1000
WATER FILTERS = 104
Vietnam Hmong Bibles, (127 Bibles, weighing 92kgs!)
The day after arriving back in Phnom Pen we headed to the airport, with double Luggage of Hmong Bibles, (127 Bibles, weighing 92kgs!) and flew to Hanoi. Yes, another miracle there when we arrived. They were checking passengers but by the time we got to checkpoints they had stopped checking, and we walked right through. God loves to surprise and bless us when we are about His #1 Task. We met up with some new contacts in Hanoi and discussed ways to help them more. We are all excited about the Audio Bible Players and how they will be used. They are also much easier and safer to carry to the people, and 1 Player can help so many people to hear God’s Word together.
As mentioned previously, another donor has connected with us and contributed some funds in order for us to buy 100 solar power audio Bible players for the many illiterate among the Hmong Tribes in the north Vietnam mountains. Illiterate and elderly, poor eyesight people, have generally been overlooked and we hope to address this need. We plan to work with local leaders who can facilitate “Audio Bible Groups” to meet regularly and listen to God’s Holy Word in their own languages. Another brother/leader in Ho Chi Min city has also asked us to help provide audio Bible Players for the Jrai and Bahnar tribes who have no Bible in their heart language. So, for early next year, and the March-April Trip, we plan to buy direct from the factories in China, several hundred solar audio players (250-300), a few thousand mozzie nets and a few hundred microfibre water filters. God has laid this on our hearts so He will surely provide. We have a wonderful recent testimony of how a very alcoholic, non-Christian man was listening to the Audio Bible Player for a few weeks. He then believed in Jesus and was INSTANTLY set free from his addictions. Oh, the power of the Word! Praise God. “Faith comes by Hearing!” We have also just set up a website which will have all of our Materials listed there for free download. We pray the Lord will use it to reach many souls to be established in the Living/Written Word forever. Amen.
We are getting many more requests from Vietnamese leaders for Hmong Bibles – about 25,000 so far……. A daunting task for Robyn and me, so, praise God, we have some teams coming to help next year onwards.
For the April Trip in 2020, the focus will be on doing “saving lives – Saving Souls!” Village Outreaches with Vietnamese church leaders from Phnom Pen, and targeting various locations in Cambodia where they have Vietnamese churches. Next we will be especially doing Vietnam border crossings, and also flying to Hanoi with teams from Europe, with lots of Hmong Bibles. Last of all Theo plans to find and try some other border areas for future crossings. So, plenty to pray about. Thank you all.
We pray that you, our dear Prayer partners will feel included and a part of what we are doing, and that God will lead you to pray according to His perfect will, as needed. He hears, and answers.
As always, we truly appreciate your fellowship in the Gospel, and your prayers and encouragements. Upon return from our trips we always report back to our valued Prayer Partners. May you all be inspired, as you will see how the Lord has used your prayers to do mighty things to accomplish His Purposes.
Again, thank you ever so much. May you and your families be greatly blessed. Always.
Please visit and tell people about our Websites:
- Mosquito net Outreach Project http://mop-project.icu
- Waterfilter Outreach Ministry http://wom-project.icu
- Seafarers Missions http://seafarers.icu
- Audio Bibles http://audiobibles.icu (NEW)
In His #1 Task, wherever, by whatever means. Theo & Robyn
Bibles, mosquito nets, water filters for Battambang, Siem Reap, etc in Cambodia. Last is our trip to Vietnam with Hmong Bibles for remote mountain tribes. We also subsequently shipped Audio Bible Players there.
Below pics are new Hmong Audio Bible Groups meeting in remote mountains in north-west Vietnam where illiteracy is high. What a joy to bless them with this opportunity to hear God’s Word together. ” . . . Faith comes by hearing . . . the Word . . . “.