Dreams Coming True

Jesus 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 Penh

It 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 Centre

For 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 moments

In 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!
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​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:

• There are so many needs over here and there is so much to be done that it is very easy to get caught up in it all and not have anything left over in the tank for the people most precious to us (our own family). Please pray with us for a really good, clear work-life balance and an ability to really love our family (our first call) in the way that Jesus calls us to love them.
• Financial provision for our family, we have been invited to an Iris Global leaders retreat in the summer in the USA and we are praying for funds to be able to attend as a family of 5!
• A large Team from Bethel in Redding, California coming soon to minister and help with outreaches. Pray that many are touched by Jesus' love and receive salvation. Pray for us as we plan logistics, etc.
• Pray with us for grace and wisdom to lead well especially as our wonderful co-leaders are away for the 6 months. Pray for us to serve well with, love wisdom and diligence.
• In one of the bar locations our team have been visiting on outreach has a lot of underage girls (young teens) in it who are not allowed to leave. We are slowly building relationship with them but please pray with us for breakthrough in this case.
• Mollie is also hoping to start a food cart business as an alternative form of employment for some of the women, pray that we find the right person to help her train and mentor the girls.
• Health over the team and our family, protection, provision and safety as we serve here.

...We send regular updates and prayer requests on a Signal Messenger Prayer and Update group. If you would like to join it you can do so by clicking here

​Thank you so much!