and we were touched by God for the harvest ahead . . . Day 3

Official Day 03 - 060110

Workshop: Time management and Budgeting
Evening Christian Youths Training: How to grow as a Christian (Cross Values)

(Calyn explaining the rules of the money management game. In this game, each of the youths are given a certain amount of tokens from the start and as the years went by, they need to think what they want to invest in.)

(Weiling as a career manager - providing jobs like being a tuk-tuk driver. Thru this station, the people can earn more tokens.)

(those who did not spend money well on food will be sent to hospital for drip and they have to spend money for the medical fees.)

(lunch time together at Joko's Eden Cafe. We linked up with Marcus CIP team together with Julian and his wife Serene.)

(group photo)

Evening workshop

(playing ice-breakers)

(breaking up the cross values into 4 parts - Prayer and Worship, Word of God, Fellowship and Serving God)

In a few hours time we will be having 120 youths coming for the outreach event. I feel that God is working in the hearts of many people and as we gathered to pray in the afternoon and at night,

I am so touched to know that the people here really want to see Jesus be known.
Pray for us that God's power be filled in the event venue we are using and His hand touching every heart that comes thru the door.

- Guan Rui -

Tomorrow's The Big Day!

We're done with all the workshops. It has been an amazing few days where God has helped us in so many ways. There were so many things that could've gone wrong, but God sent the right people at the right time and all we had to do was give our best in whatever we knew how. He is in control and His kingdom will advance no matter what!

Tomorrow's the big day and we'll be spending the morning and afternoon preparing for it. We'll be fasting lunch (fast with us if you can!) in preparation for what God is going to do.

Tomorrow's event will be 3-5pm (4-6pm S'pore time) at the National Institute of Education (NIE!). Do pray and intercede with us for the youths in this country. Will definitely update on the outcome of things as soon as we can tomorrow.
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Today's journey :)

Today weiling and i we conducted a workshop on self management in the area of managing our finance and to persevere in our planning. A continuation from yest's workshop.

The challenge when we were planning was not language barrier but culture. The cambodians youths are simple-minded and things have to be put across simple and direct. Content had to be cut down greatly cause they will not be able to understand but to have simple and yet deep take home points. Simple in terms of content but deep enough for them to apply in their lives and that it is relevant. We had to replace most of the content with activities and games, and to focus on key debriefing take home points at the end. It was challenging but fun to plan and also how God expand our creativity and also enabled us to bridge the gap.

To teach the cambodians the importance of saving, planning and prioritising we came up with a game with different scenarios over a span of '10 years' and they had to work, go to school, go church, fall sick and go market to buy food. It was interesting but chaotic. The activity was finalised quite last minute as we had to take note of some of the culture differences and also their way of living. Many impromptu things and it was a little bit chaotic but overall i think the main points were drove in. Through this activity we also managed to bring in some christian values and also the importance of growing their relationship with God.

Physically quite tired already :) but God is sustaining me and keeping my energy level up! :) continue to keep us in prayer for protection :) Excitied about tonight's workshop on follow-up :) Cause there are a few female leaders around who are really serious about God and i hope to be able to share more with them and impart to them. Yest had a chance to talk more with them and after the conversation i was so blessed by their Spirit! God is soooo amazing. Going for dinner and the workshop already tmr is the exciting Day!!!!! So exciting it can last for 50 years ;) ahahhaha..... Nope, its so exciting it can last forever. Whatever we are doing has eternal value. Gotta go le!!!! Will blog tonight.

Cal is blessed, ministered, renewed, exciting, happy, crazy (by tim).... hahahahaha.

More Prayer Requests

We had a very blessed time with the leaders praying for the event tomorrow. They are pinning many hopes on people coming to know Him through the event tomorrow. Tomorrow is Cambodia's Independence Day, the day that the people were set free from Pol Pot's regimes. The event is called Freedom Concert, and the leaders are praying that people will be set free and lives will be transformed.

We went down to the Outreach Event venue to pray over it just now. As I was praying, I felt the blood of the Lamb over the doorposts, that the place will be protected and that people will be set free just as the Spirit of God set Israel free from the Egyptians.

I'm very privileged to share the message. It is a huge responsibility but I'm trusting God to give me the right words to say. Our brother Somien, whom God has allowed us to work with over the past few days, will be our translator. He too is an orphan who was saved by Jesus and whose life has been transformed. God will speak through him too. Calyn, Guan Rui and Wei Ling will be involved in the skit, Joyce will be playing keyboards for some parts of the skit, and Serene will be leading the intercessory session.

Pray with us...
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