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3/12/2025 0 Comments Dreams Coming TrueJesus is faithful to fulfil the dreams He puts on our hearts. Please see below for some photos and some short descriptions of all that has been happening. Thank you so much for your ongoing love and support. If you would like to pray with us some Prayer Requests can be found at the bottom of the page. Harvest School of Missions Phnom PenhIt was such a joy to be a part of hosting the first ever Iris Harvest School of Missions Phnom Penh. We attended an Iris Harvest School in Mozambique in 2011 and it changed our lives forever. We had the honour of hosting students here from Japan, Australia, China, America, India and Cambodia. God did some incredible things and it left a lasting impact on our whole Iris Phnom Penh team who also went through the school. Chomno Coffee and Riverside Outreach CentreFor over 10 years we have had a dream of having a space on the riverside (where a lot of our work is concentrated). There are a lot of vulnerable families based there and there is a large red light area in this area. We recently felt released to look for a place and we found a beautiful place over looking the river. When we first found the property it was fully furnished as a stripper bar with red walls and a dancing stage with mirrors and a strippers pole. Within a few days of deciding to rent the space the Lord put it on someones heart to give a very large generous gift to help us cover full rennovation costs and some extra too for a vocational training programme. Our Coffee project team leader Jen has done an incredible job of transforming and restoring the place (as you can see in the pictures). Which itself is a beautiful picture of God's redemption plan for the area and the people here. Light in the darkness Mollie got to be a part of hosting a Christmas party in a red light area bar location due to favour and a good relationship with the bar manager. Twenty-three girls heard the gospel (along with one male customer who was also present in the bar) as they shared a meal with them and gave them Christmas gifts. It was a joy-filled and unique time. We hosted Christmas celebrations in each of our communities and we also got to baptise 26 new believers in this time who have been faithfully attending the bible studies in the different locations. (You can read our recently published Iris Phnom Penh Annual report here which includes lots more incredible testimonies and other information about our team's work out here). Other special momentsIn the new year we went on a full team retreat with our team and their families. We also got to welcome some new people into the Iris Phnom Penh family who were graduates of the Harvest School of Missions. Six people joined our team from the school together and they are coming on board as unpaid volunteers including our very first ever Cambodian missionaries! One very special recent moment was having the privilege of baptising 12 believers at our home. They have been faithfully attending the bible study that meets at our home every week and have been impacted by God's love and His power to answer prayer. One of the regular attendees family at home were so impacted by Jesus moving in answered prayer that her husband, brother and two daughters recently received Jesus and wanted to be baptised too! There have been many other special moments, including our good friends and co-leaders of Iris Phnom Penh getting pregnant after patiently waiting for a long time. They recently left for the USA for six months to be with family for the birth. Please pray for them and for us as we try to lead well in their absence. On a personal note our family are overall doing well. We were blessed to have a much needed break in Vietnam with family over the new year and came into the year with fresh vision (and also a new puppy!) We thank God for all of you who stand alongside us and serve alongside us through your prayers, your love and your financial support. We cannot do any of this without you joining with us in this way. We love and appreciate you all! (Prayer requests are below)  Prayer requests:
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8/22/2024 2 Comments Ongoing miracles... Highlights:
Each photo (or video) below has a short caption explaining some of these highlights. Prayer points can be found at the bottom, thank you so much for your ongoing love, support and encouragement! This is a video the bethel team of ministry students made about their visit to Cambodia at the end of March. The school gave them a strict two minute time limit so they couldn't fit everything in but Jesus did so much during this special time that it would be hard to write about everything that happened! Here are some pictures from our outreach to the province with the bethel team. Many were healed touched and many became new believers. Including this beautiful eighty six year old grandma and daughter together in the picture above after we visited their home and shared the gospel with them. Our discipleship groups across the city are continuing to grow and it is so encouraging to keep hearing new testimonies of how Jesus is impacting people's lives and bringing new freedom and life.  In April we were out as a family at the shopping in the mall and I felt led to stop and talk to this young man who was on crutches. He was thankful I stopped and had time for him, he said he had recently been in a motorbike accident and had many surgeries in his two legs and arms. He said almost everyone he knew had deserted him and he had been suicidal. Benjy and I prayed for him and told him about Jesus. We met again a few days later and he said after our prayer his body felt so much better and now he only needed one crutch to get by. After that moment he knew Jesus was real and that Jesus loved him and our friend decided to pray with me to accept Jesus into his heart. In May Mollie and the Red light Outreach team visited Bangkok to join and learn from a ministry called Nightlight that has been doing anti-trafficking/red light district outreach for over nineteen years. It was such an encouraging trip and they all came back to Phnom Penh re-energised and filled with hope for whats ahead here in Phnom Penh! In June we set off for some vital rest time in beautiful England. It was a huge gift to spend some time with family and dear friends who have been such a huge encouragement to us. We also got to have a special anniversary trip away together to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary (our first trip without any kids with us in 9 years!) The Lord is a Good Shepherd and he knows how to restore our souls! We have come back encouraged and excited for the season ahead. When we got back to Cambodia we moved house we are feeling more settled in now and are loving the new place. The kids are also back in school and Abbie started pre school a few days a week. We are so thankful to be back!  Here is a testimony from Mollie about a very recent outreach to the red light area. "Before going out that night I had word of knowledge of deep pain in tooth/jaw (my was very painful for a few seconds ) and Ponleu saw picture of the face of someone we know and someone else on our team saw laughter. So we went and sat with the lady whose face Ponleu got a picture of, and 2 older ladies (both in their 40’s). Two of these ladies had tooth ache and both were healed when we prayed much to their amazement which led to laughter! Then one of them opened up about her heart problem and also the loss of her husband a few years ago in moto accident so prayed for her. She had previously been going to church and had been a believer but the loss of her husband had really shaken her. God is going after his lost sheep! Please pray for them all."  More from Mollie: God has given me a heart to see women empowered to be able to leave the bars with other great business opportunities. Often these girls have little or no education and so creating business they can thrive in is important. About a year ago God told me he was giving me creative business ideas and I had this random idea of crepe/pancake food carts. This week my friend from BSSM Emily came to visit us here in Phnom Penh and managed to somehow raise the full funds for the 1st cart ! I then went into the shop on my road and I saw a crepe making machine which I have never seen before here. This in addition to many other little signs seems to confirm this is what God wants - so watch this space as hoping to start with my first cart (similar to the one in this picture) soon. I am also developing a range of candles with my sister in law also to help bring funds/jobs for vulnerable women and girls here.  We are excited to be hosting our first ever Iris Harvest school of Missions in Phnom Penh at the end of September. The school is 8 weeks long and we have students coming from India, Japan, China, America and Cambodia! We are honoured to be hosting some special guest speakers from abroad too. Please pray for us as we host our first ever Iris Harvest School in Cambodia! Prayer points:
Thank you so much for your constant love, encouragement and support, we couldn't do any of this without you all. Much love in Jesus, Steve, Mollie, Grace, Benjy and Abbie  2/17/2024 1 Comment The Lord who Heals youThank you so much for partnering with God's work in Cambodia and journeying alongside us! Lots has been happening so we have decided to use photos with a short caption below each one. There are also some prayer requests written below. Thank you so much for journeying with us!  In November our team had the privilege of joining the Iris Asia Gathering in Malaysia. On the first evening our team got to have dinner with Heidi Baker and share a bit about what the Lord has been doing in Cambodia.  It was a refreshing time of connection and encouragement. For some of our team it was the first time they have left the country.  After Malaysia I (Steve) felt led by the Lord to pray for healing over my food intolerances. For 2 years I had been unable to eat anything with even a small amount of wheat or milk in it. If I did, I was sick for two days afterwards. In Cambodia because nothing is labelled I was getting sick regularly. After praying for about an hour and a half one morning and taking authority over the sickness (because of the authority in Jesus' victory on the Cross) I felt something leave my body. Then I felt the Lord say "you are healed". That morning I told the kids I was healed and they were so excited! They said "lets eat something together" so I ate cereal with milk with the kids that morning and had no after effects. This is picture is from the same day I was healed. We went out for lunch to celebrate (I couldn't eat any these foods before)! Since November I have been able to fully eat a normal diet again!!!  In December we had a team come from Iris Harvest School and had a great time where Jesus moved and many were healed and saved. This is a picture of us all on province outreach.  We also got to do lots of exciting Christmas parties and activities in the communities we work in.  Mollie, Jillian and the team also had the honor and privilege of hosting a dinner for 13 precious girls who are working in the Red light area. The girls were invited to 'Come to the Table' - to have a seat at the banquet table with King Jesus. Our team arranged for 13 ladies to be able to leave the bar for the evening. We decorated our prayer room for Christmas and set a beautiful banquet table for dinner. There was dancing, singing, crying, laughing, eating and deeper friendships built. The gospel was shared, one girl was healed, and God moved in many hearts in ways that only He can. Such a dream come true for our red light outreach team.  We took a special trip to province to celebrate some good friend's engagement ceremony.  We recently moved into a brand new building in the new community with 2000+ unreached families in it. Iris global put a video about it on the website called donor see. If you are interested you can watch it by clicking here.  Celebrating Christmas at our home with some of our team. It was great to be able to eat Christmas dinner together although its the time of year when we miss our families the most!  Mollie and the red light area outreach team have been continuing to faithfully and consistently minister in the red light areas even in the midst of some ongoing challenges and set backs.  Visiting our Cambodian family in Sihanoukville.  We got to have a little trip to the coast over Christmas holidays which unfortunately got cut short because Mollie had a really bad ear infection and she had to go to hospital. We are praying for ongoing protection over our rest and family time!  In January there was a lot of sickness in our team but one of the highlights was being able to join other leaders in Chiang Mai for a evangelism and discipleship conference. It was a really powerful, impacting and encouraging time!  There was some really great training about multiplication of discipleship groups and we got to hear some incredible testimonies of what God is doing around the world and also got to catch up with some friends from the online Bethel Leaders Network Far East Asia revival group that we are a part of.  Chinese new year is a big thing over here now so we took the kids out to see some dragon dancing. Abbie did not like it with the loud drums and the giant dragons!  Our team recently partnered with some other NGO's and agencies to have a dangerous paedophile arrested and deported (he had abused children in different regions multiple times before). He was grooming some of the kids in one of our communities and because of our team's testimony and relationship with the girls the authorities were able to move quickly and intervene protecting the at risk children. We pray for this man too. That he would put His trust in the power of the Cross of Jesus Christ and His Lordship, before it is too late for him.  This is a recent photo of one of our discipleship groups that do a bible discovery on our street. God is really moving in their hearts and they are bringing new people in to add to the group who want to learn about the Lord who heals them.  This is a recent picture taken of our whole team (there are three people from our team not on this photo and two guests here in this shot). We barely fit in our office now! God is moving and continuing to change lives in the communities we all work in. Thank you for continuing to pray for us all! We so appreciate your ongoing support and faithfulness in standing alongside us as we serve Jesus together here in Cambodia and SE Asia. Every prayer, every gift, every word of encouragement makes such a difference to us and our team out here and has an impact in this nation.
We have a list of current prayer requests below for our family and team;
Much love in Jesus, Steve, Mollie, Grace, Benjamin and Abigail |
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