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10/30/2023 8 Comments

Increase and Growth

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The Well Prayer and Worship Room located in the middle of the Red light area
We have now been back in Phnom Penh for 15 months! It has been a wild and beautiful journey of adjusting to life here as a family. Cambodia is a beautiful nation with the most kind and hospitable people and truly over this last year we have fallen back in love with the people here.
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Abigail helping us pray for a sweet old grandma
Our language abilities are slowly coming back and the kids are learning a new way of life. It has been such an honor to co-lead our team here ; which is now consisting of 26 people ; including 12 missionaries ! The people we get to work with are some of the most kind and inspiring people I have ever met.
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The number of missionaries on our team has doubled in six months! From 6 to 12
​Iris Phnom Penh has historically been an anti-trafficking organization. We have a team of full time Cambodian social workers whose aim is to keep children and families safe and helping them in very practical ways. We want to prevent but also intervene in any trafficking cases that come to light in our communities. We serve in several at-risk and impoverished communities where we run kids clubs and do regular outreaches, building relationship with those in need.
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One of the communities we serve in. Photo from @irisphnompenh instagram
Our child sponsorship program enables us to support families in need and make sure each child can attend school. Love looks like something and so for every baby milk, family food package we give out it opens the door for people to know they are loved and that God sees them and cares for them.
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A discipleship group in a different community we serve in,
We wholeheartedly believe community transformation won’t happen without people knowing Jesus, and knowing who they are in Him. This only comes from regular exposure to the truth and constant relationship with His body (the Church). So recently we have being putting an even greater emphasis on discipleship. We have a discipleship groups in all our communities which are growing and people are encountering Gods love and power !
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The discipleship group that we host weekly in our home is also going well. This picture is from when we recently gave them solar audio bibles.
Our family is doing well, the kids have so many friends here and are finding things that they love to do. Both kids have been playing football/soccer and enjoying it (despite it being very hot). Abigail is learning Khmer faster than I (Mollie) am at the moment and its very sweet to see her greet people in the traditional Khmer way! There have been some regular challenges with Steve’s health with some food intolerances here but the kids are always quick to pray and we are seeing God move powerfully through their prayers!
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The kids are enjoying life out here

The Well that never runs dry ....

It has been such a joy to see Gods promises spoken to our team over a decade ago coming to fruition in “The Well” the prayer room in the red-light area. ​
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The view from The Well prayer room
We have had many powerful times of prayer and worship both as a team and wider with other Christians from different organizations ; declaring Gods redeeming powerful love over the centre of the red-light district.
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The Red light area near our prayer room
We now have a full time team based in the red-light area and weekly outreaches into the bars. Last week we started our first discipleship group for these women and it was so beautiful. Our dream is one day to see a church established here but for now we praise God for this group! 
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The near-by riverside outreach
We are also seeing increased fruit from our kid's club in this same area and some of our kids have asked to receive Jesus which is impacting their whole families. It's beautiful to see how whole families are now listening together to the audio bibles that we have given them.
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Our team were recently blessed to have a visit from Sharon and Hannah who both encouraged us greatly!
We are continually astounded at Jesus' constant faithfulness and goodness over here, even in spite of ourselves and our own imperfections, He is more than capable! He alone deserves the glory!
So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth." 1 Corinthians 3:7
We also give God praise and thanks for yourselves and your co-labouring in loving and serving His beautiful people here. Every prayer, every encouragement and every financial seed sown in makes a huge difference. We dearly appreciate you all and thank God for you!
Please pray with us for: Our Team : We have grown significantly and appreciate prayers for unity and good communication. Please pray covering over us as we continue to work in some of the darkest parts of the city. In 2 weeks we are all heading to Malaysia for an Iris Family gathering with bases from all around the world. For many of our team its the first time out the country so please pray for us!

Our Family: That our marriage and our kids and our health would thrive here ! Especially praying for healing for Steve's current dietary intolerances which cause regular health problems.

Ministry provision: We are growing so fast and the needs are so huge please join us in praying favour for us as an organisation for funding and resources that we need as we grow. In the troubles of 2020 we lost all of our child sponsors and so we are praying for more child sponsorships to help support the continued work in the communities that we serve. (We are looking for people to be advocates for this so if you have a heart to share about the Stop for the One child sponsorship programme in your church do this please get in touch! We have some simple resources we can share with you)

Lives transformed: As we are expanding our discipleship groups and looking more at church planting please pray that all those who would attend would continue to encounter God and grow in faith ! That we would be able to steward these precious people well and keep pointing them to Jesus. The author and perfector.

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We have a more regularly updating prayer group on signal messenger. If you are interested in joining it​ please click here.)
 Much love in Jesus from us all here!
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5/31/2023 5 Comments

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
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We were able to continue the adult discipleship group in the new community that contains 2000+ unreached families.
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We also started a new kids club in this community.
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We were blessed to have some very encouraging visitors come and share with us.
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Our dear friends and former team members also came and really encouraged us and our team.
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At the end of March we were blessed to be able to host a team from Bethel in Redding, California.
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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 .
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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!)
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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.
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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.
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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!
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On the last day of the province outreach we baptised 5 people and it was an incredible time of Joy and blessing.
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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.
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Grace recently did a Khmer traditional dance performance with her dance class in her school assembly and did a great job!
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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!
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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!
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We also celebrated Grace's 8th Birthday in March and Benjy's 6th birthday in May!
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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!
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1/23/2023 4 Comments

Some good news from Cambodia

Jesus has been doing some wonderful things over the last few months. There are lots of testimonies and many things to be thankful for. We have included some pictures below with some text briefly describing each one (hover your mouse over/ click on the images below to see each description):
We have regular ministry with the street kids on the riverside. One night when I was sharing there were a few new faces so I shared a gospel message then we got to pray for some of the kids. A few of them got healed, one kid got healed of headaches another said he felt fear leave as we prayed and another received healing in his leg after asking for prayer for bad knee pain. We then asked them if they would like to receive a blessing from Holy Spirit. Lots of them got touched by God’s love and kindness. Two of them in-particular seemed touched by God’s love for them.
We had a team from Perth, Australia visit our railway slum community and after kids club they did some family visits with our social workers. They got to pray for some people and we saw Jesus do some miracles. One lady had intense pain in her legs from back damage, after two lots of prayer Jesus fully healed her and she felt no more pain! She readily decided to receive Jesus' into her heart! Another lady received healing in her body and her eyes which were sore also felt better after the team prayed.
We got to give new school uniforms out to the children who were on the stop for the one programme and preach the gospel to their parents. Out of the 18 parents that came I counted 8 of them put their hands up to receive Jesus! Please pray for us as we disciple them and at least 2 others that received Jesus during this time (during the Australian team house visits.) (Photo by Iris Phnom Penh).
During our adults discipleship programme in the community we work in we had a time of testimonies. Three of them contributed and shared how they got completely healed by Jesus after prayer from the visiting team. That created an atmosphere of faith in the room. After praying for them at the end of the discipleship time two others testified of being healed of different issues in their bodies and others testified of feeling peace and all heaviness leaving. Please pray for the others who got touched/ healed or put their hands up to receive Jesus the week before but didn’t yet come and please pray for more men in this community to be impacted by the glorious gospel that sets us free.
Our team were able to find somewhere to live for a family that were at risk and living in their tuk tuk. We found them a place in a community we didn’t even know about before. (The room we found for them already had murals of Jesus on the walls! We are praying that this place is an open door into this community and a strong discipleship group can be established here). We have started a family discipleship group in this (unreached) community and in the first meeting of the new year another family from that community joined in with them also!
Christmas was a wonderful time of celebrating the greatest gift of all time! We had parties in all of the communities we work in and a bonus outreach in a community we had once lived in Sihanoukville. It was lots of fun!
We were thankful for a very special time with family visiting us over the holidays.
We were blessed also to have a great visit from our bethel missions pastors at the beginning of January. Our family and our team were very encouraged by them.
At the first family (adults) discipleship of the year at the railway community 3 people testified of being healed after receiving prayer in Jesus’ name. Please pray for them all as they continue to grow in their faith.
The kids in our communities are learning English, learning about Jesus and being educated on how to stay safe.
We had a really refreshing, encouraging and deep time on our team retreat. We had so much fun and many people were deeply touched by wonderful Holy Spirit.
During our team retreat our bus driver was powerfully impacted. He had walked away from the Christian faith in 2003 but as He was sitting around watching the meetings he was so touched by the presence of God and our team’s love that He stood up on the last night and repented and rededicated his life to Jesus! 20 years and Jesus has got him back in His fold! He got baptised the following morning!
Grace also wanted to get baptised after this and it was such a beautiful and special time where we could really feel the presence of God.
Much love in Jesus from us all here!
Thank you so much for praying along side us, giving support and being such a huge encouragement! You are a part of this work also and contributing to the victory with every prayer, gift and encouragement that you bring.

(All of the above testimonies and prayer requests above were shared in our Signal Messenger update prayer group and is a more regular way to stay updated from us and receive our prayer requests click this link if you are interested in joining it ).
Please pray with us for:
  • Health in our whole team and our leadership team, we have been experiencing some challenges.
  • Wisdom in leading and clear understanding of God's will, there are lots of exciting things ahead but also lots of big decisions please pray with us for clear discernment and wisdom.
  • We are dreaming of finding a property on the riverside we so can expand what we do in this area, there have been years and years of prophetic words about this. 
  • Now our co-leaders are back from a break in the USA we can share the responsibilities between ourselves more and we have a strong desire to go after language learning and really invest this next year to become fluent enough to disciple and teach without the need for an interpreter. Pray for lots of grace and discipline in this essential area too!
  • Pray for our discipleship groups, there has been lots of fruit already, please pray protection over the new believers and that the groups will continue to grow with an increase from the Lord and they will continue to impact their communities.
  • Wisdom in work-life balance, it's very easy to get very busy here and we don't want that to be at the cost of being able to love our family and kids well. We are in this for the long haul! Please pray with us for lots of wisdom and grace in that.
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