New things springing forth

At the beginning of the year our team strongly felt these verses from Isaiah 43 highlighted to us. So far they have been very accurate! There are some exciting new things springing forth!

​We have decided to use photos with a short caption below each one (rather than writing a long wordy post). There are also some prayer requests written below. Thank you for journeying with us!

"Do not remember the former things,
​Nor consider the things of old.
Behold, I will do a new thing,
Now it shall spring forth;
​Shall you not know it?
I will even make a
road in the wilderness
And rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 43:18-19

We were able to continue the adult discipleship group in the new community that contains 2000+ unreached families.

We also started a new kids club in this community.

We were blessed to have some very encouraging visitors come and share with us.

Our dear friends and former team members also came and really encouraged us and our team.

At the end of March we were blessed to be able to host a team from Bethel in Redding, California.

The first night the bethel team were here we helped to arrange an evening to encourage the local leaders and missionaries serving here. Many were blessed and refreshed and there were many healings .

The whole week they joined our regular programmes and outreaches then afterwards we went on a special outreach to the province (Cambodian countryside). We did some house visits to pray for and share the gospel with people on the first afternoon. Below is a video about one of the many miracles that happened during that outreach. (Including a connection that goes back over 10 years!)

This is a picture from the gospel outreach in the evening. Many came and heard the goodnews. People received healing and gave their lives to Jesus.

We also did antitrafficking education and a gospel presentation to over 280 of the children in this village. Sharing the power of the name of Jesus over the darkness.

They did a special gospel presentation in the form of a play about the power of Jesus over the darkness the children were really impacted!

On the last day of the province outreach we baptised 5 people and it was an incredible time of Joy and blessing.

We thank God that our family has settled in well. This is a picture of Abigail enjoying a stroll on our street to go and see the nearby chickens.

Grace recently did a Khmer traditional dance performance with her dance class in her school assembly and did a great job!

In hospital for more tests. Steve was unwell for most of April and we couldn't figure out what it was. We had tests for Dengue and Typhoid come back negative but then Holy Spirit told Steve in a dream what it was (it turns out he had Legionnaires' disease). We were then able to get the right antibiotics course and Steve eventually made a full recovery. God is so faithful!

Our team has a total of three discipleship bible study groups that meet weekly. One of them meets at our house and it has been really fun hosting and trying to guide the group using Steve's limited but improving Cambodian language skills!

We also celebrated Grace's 8th Birthday in March and Benjy's 6th birthday in May!

Another exciting recent development is that our team recently opened a place of prayer and worship in the heart of the red light district in Phnom Penh!

We have had prophetic words about this area of the city for over 10 years and recently we felt the Lord saying that the time is now! We recently hosted a prayer and worship evening with friends from other organisations and all came to worship Jesus together and pray for this area. It was a beautiful night of encounter and hope and felt like the start of something.

At the end of May a few of us returned to the village that we had visited in March when the Bethel Team was here. We were able to minister to the church, we held an afternoon session that was originally intended for the church leaders, but most of the church wanted to join for this as well!

It was so beautiful to see their hunger to learn more and their love for fellowship together. We also checked in on some families who we visited and had given audio bibles to last time. Most of them talked about how they listen to them every day and how the audio bible really encourages them and gives them strength!

We are blessed to be able to visit the UK for a few weeks in June before we fly to Canada to be a part of Steve's brother's wedding. It will be a short visit but we are looking forward to reconnecting with some family and friends!

We will be sharing at our local church in NE Lincs on June 25 and at the church of some other good friend's in Highworth, Wiltshire on July 16 (on our return through the UK after getting back from Canada). 

We are so thankful for all of you for journeying alongside us as we serve Jesus and the people of Cambodia together with you. It is a beautiful thing to watch as the Lord makes a "way in the wilderness and Streams in the Desert".

Please pray with us for:
-Blessings and protection over the team here in Cambodia.
-Favour with government connections and for administrative eases. There have been some recent struggles with some administrative/ registration processes and pray with us for favour and great connections with the government.
-All the new believers, new disciple groups and new connections in Jesus. That they would continue to grow in their faith and remain steadfast!
-Increase in all areas, including financial provision, as God is increasing the "New Things" that He is doing here we know and believe that He will provide for it. Please pray with us for the protection and fulfilment of that.
-For safe travels, no sickness, a good time of connection with friends and family and that my brother would have a really blessed wedding! 
-Continued protection and health over our family as we serve Jesus out here. 
-We have a more regularly updating prayer group on signal messenger. If you are interested in joining it please click here.

Sending all our love from Cambodia!