The six member ICAN International team travelled all the way from Fiji during the month

of July to join us in time to share the gospel with Svaay Damnark 2, a new Kuy village in the hills. We set out early in the morning and travelled most part of the day when the warm rays of the sun and the cool winds of the Kuy lands started to beat down on us. We reached our destination early in the evening. We walked 10 kilometres and took a tractor ride for the next 5 kilometres to reach the village. It was an exciting and challenging trip for all of us because it was a new village and God was extending our borders in reaching more Kuy people with the good news of Jesus Christ. The Lord used a 55-year-old widow, Vanthet to embrace the gospel and welcome us into Svaay Damnark. It was also through the perseverance and frequent visits of Pra Sok, a fellow believer and house church leader from the neighbouring village and the power of the Holy Spirit that convicted Vanthet to receive the Lord Jesus into her heart.

This new found love for Jesus brought Vanthet and her four young children much joy and contentment. They also shared this with their families and friends in the village. When we arrived, our hearts rejoiced to see a group of villagers gathered and waiting expectantly for us. The distance we travelled and the tiredness we felt could not compare with the smiles on the faces of the children and older folks that greeted us. We took them Khmer bibles as gifts and the ICAN International team shared the gospel in song and dance, much to the delight and amazement of the villagers. Eight people gave their lives to the Lord Jesus Christ that evening. We had to stay overnight at the tractor drivers home because it was getting dark and the continuous evening rain had flooded the nearby river crossings. We left early morning and had to swim across two rivers to get to the neighbouring village of Srey Thnong.

Pastor Moses OConnor and his five member team arrived into Phnom Penh in mid-July this year with a heart and passion to visit the mission fields in the Kuy lands. Despite flight delays and setbacks, the team arrived with great enthusiasm, in good health and joyful spirits, thankful to the faithfulness of God. They came prepared with the gospel in song and dance and was all eager to hit the mission treks after only 24hours here in Cambodia. CMF Cambodia is also excited of great opportunities this network is bringing about for the extension of the work here in Phnom Penh and also with the Kuy villages. The students and the Kuy people were all excited to see new faces and new people come to visit them and bless them with gifts and bibles translate into their own language. Our programme was an intense one but all this changed due to the leading of the Holy Spirit that directed us to the new Kuy village in Svaay Damnark 2.

Pastor OConnor had briefed his team on what to expect but God stirred up within them great compassion for the people. They brought gift packs for the women and Khmer bibles and demonstrated Gods love in action through song and dance. It was also the main message of their mission trip, Gods Love In Action. They travelled 10 kilometres on foot and took a tractor ride for about five kilometres before doing ministry to a newly reached Kuy village. They shared the gospel through song and dance to new believers deep in the Kuy Lands of Cambodia. They took shelter for the night in a villagers home and left before sunrise to make their way back to base camp in Phnom Penh. They swam across two flooded rivers that filled up during the nights heavy downpours. They got their first experience of life in the mission fields with the Kuy people of Cambodia and I believe they will treasure those moments with joy. We loved having them here with us and there are plans to come back with more teams before the end of this year.

The visiting ICAN International team from Fiji was shocked to see people moving in droves scavenging rubbish for food, clothing and pieces of cardboard for shelter. The sight was overwhelming for them but their heart of compassion was much stronger than the sight that was before them or even the stench that permeated their entire being. The ladies broke down and cried and shook their heads in disbelief at was being played out before them. This is the real mission field where survival of the fittest is experienced. The team brought cakes and food packs with them to distribute to the people who had gathered around them. One of the most fulfilling part of this visit to the rubbish dump site is when they were able to sit on the mud with them, enter their bare cardboard homes, embrace naked children and seeing the smiles on their faces when they were handed food packs. The teams response was, the harvest is truly plentiful but the labourers are few. They have promised to send more teams on their next visit in November and December this year.

Mom is a 23-year-old Childrens ministry teacher in Srey Thnong and is the eldest of six children. When we visited them, the children performed an action chorus item and this was the first time for them to present this form of ministry. After our visit, the Church in Phnom Penh decided to support Mom financially with their new house building and she was asked to come to Phnom Penh for more discussions. She didnt have any means of transport or finances to pay for her way to the city. She believed in God for His provision. Her prayer was answered after her father went hunting and for the first time hunted a big wild boar! They ate, sold, fed nearby houses and brought some for the students at the hostel and myself. Money gained helped with her bus fare.

Veasnas dad passed away in the evening of Wednesday, August 15th. On that same night, Veasna and her three younger sisters had to take the body home to their province, a three hours journey by road. She experienced an overwhelming peace during this time. God provided for her financially to organise funeral arrangements and she knew it was Gods strength and power that sustained her. She encouraged her mum and sisters to be strong and came back to Phnom Penh on Saturday in time for church the next day where she shared and testified of Gods faithfulness to her and her family.

Prayer requests

Full time Kuy workers Open heaven and new strategies to reach the Unreached New Tuk-Tuk for rubbish dump and hospital ministry More passion for the lost. Blessings Susu Cinavou Phnom Penh Cambodia