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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):
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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 ).
(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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May God continue to give you grace as you lead others into his kingdom. Diane and I love you all.
Thank you Michael, you guys are such an encouragement to us. Sending our love from over here
This bought me to tears. We are standing with you all in prayer.
Thank you for all you are doing as you share Jesus and work with God and the Holy Spirit. Supporting you in prayer and excited as you see breakthrough in Gods plans for your work. Praying protection over you all and over the new converts as you seek to step out more, as God directs your work there. Blessings and love in Jesus Name. Maureen