Opening the Door (As our youngest grandson said)
Today we worshipped together with the church body here in the office. It was quite a humbling experience from my point of view. It’s been very obvious to us that God wanted us to return to Cambodia. But my heart (Shary) has struggled many times over doing what He wanted of us. The pictures of our six grandchildren on our office wall with their parents speak loudly of those emotions. Just today I was looking at the photos from the airport and realized that our youngest grandson was trying so hard to be brave as his photo was taken, but his face showed his anguish of our departure. Enough said.
Yet, as we sat in this building where we had been for nearly two previous years, I began to understand God’s gentle nudging to us, or at least a glimpse at this point.
God is indeed in this house. His presence has embraced these folks who have chosen to follow Him. A total of 20 were in this service plus three children. One could imagine that the chorus of angels was also harmonizing the Khmer songs being sung above the torrential rains banging on the tin roofs outside the window. It was a Lutheran church service in source, but there is joy and life in this band of people worshipping together, some of whom were lifting their hands upward in praise to Him as they sang.
Our God is saying “Please pray for these people, my children, my servants. Stand with them, encourage them, and give them courage to share me with those who do not know me yet.”
In this little band of folk, 16 were men, four are studying to be pastors at this time, others are learning how they are to be strong Godly leaders. Pastor Vanarith’s message was simple, taken out of Matthew 12:38-44 and how we as Christians are sinners just like the people of Nineveh and Christ’s journey to earth saved us, just like Jonah’s journey to Nineveh, did for 
those people
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