Missionary Shary Frahm – Serving in Cambodia

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How Firm a Foundation

The scoreboard says that we have less than 12 days to go to raise $1980. We are at 79% of our goal and it would be a shame to miss it at this point. If you are not currently a giver, won’t you pray and ask God if you shouldn’t at least give a token gift to the church in Snor. If you are a current giver, pray if you can stretch just a little further. In either case, please encourage others to get involved and be part of this project. You will be blessed.

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Cambodia National Lutheran Youth Camp 2017

This past week we accompanied a few of our Siem Reap youth to the Cambodian Lutheran youth National Camp. There were a total of 111 youth from across the country who traveled and met up to learn, discuss, and share about youth contemporary issues. So many, of not the majority, are first generation Christians in their communities and stand on the front lines. For many of them, the road as they stand firm, is not smooth and simple. They’ve made sacrifices within their communities and their families.

The photos and videos can speak volumes more than I could type here. One particular young man, from nearly the start, would come to me with questions during the breakout sessions. When I asked to give me his idea first, his reply was simple and direct “I don’t have one yet, so please teach me/us some explanation so we understand more.” He shared that he had just gotten a bible, and was reading it, but didn’t understand a lot of it yet. Gratefully he had a local pastor to mentor him.

Our last night was talent night.

Each sending area had the opportunity to share something related to the theme ‘youth contemporary issues.’ Samuel wanted to do something on Pentecost. Thank goodness for the internet and YouTube at that point, plus Veggie Tales. We managed to pull off a dual language 3 minute skit then Sophena climaxed it with a perfect song. Samuel got in his mini sermon in Khmer in between.

No, we didn’t ‘win’ the grand prize, but in my mind these young people did a perfect presentation and I’m so proud of them. I’m thinking they maybe had no clue about the healing of the blind man nor the cripple until that time. Enjoy the video snips and the pics.

Oh yes, I was the blind person, and the odd girl out for speaking another language, as Peter and John were out doing their miracle thing at that time.

Oh, the gorgeous voice singing is none other than Pastor Samuel’s wife Sophena, who leads the music portion of this ministry in Siem Reap. She is known region wide for her glorious God given talent~and she praises Him with that very gift again and again.

Video links below. Click on them and they should hyperlink to the video: 

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Khmer Khronicle June 2017

KK June 2017

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How Firm a Foundation ~

Dear Friends-
Many, if not all of you, know that for the last 6 years, George and I have spent significant time with the Lutheran Church in Cambodia. One of the Pastors we have come to know and love is Pastor Samuel in Siem Reap. As of February 2017, we have had the pleasure of getting to know Pastor and his family on a daily basis as we are working solely with him.
Pastor has four preaching stations in the communities around Siem Reap, one of the poorest provinces in the country. However, he has been able to purchase a piece of property upon which he hopes to build a shelter to house the Lutheran Church in Snor, Cambodia. But this last rainy season there was a significant set back. Because of very heavy and late rains, the church property has suffered significant erosion. The community cannot afford to make the repairs before the upcoming rainy season without your help.
In order to do this, we have created a crowd funding project, “How Firm a Foundation” with We Raise, part of Wheat Ridge Ministries.
There are two things that we ask you to do:
1. Pray how God would use you to help this struggling church. The minimum donation is one dollar made with your credit or debit card. In the event that we do not make the primary goal of $9650, your card will not be charged. This project will only run for 45 days, so you are not making an obligation beyond that. It is a one time project. The details of the project are on the We Raise web site which you can access by clicking on Pastor, his family, and George below.
2. The second thing we would ask is that you help us spread word of this project on your social media pages. Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, etc. The principle of crowd funding is many people giving small amounts when summed together can accomplish great goals. George and I will receive nothing from any donations through this project. So your help in spreading the need is utterly important.
May God bless you all for your help!  Thank you.
George and Shary
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Khmer Khronicle May 2017

KK May 2017

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Where It All Began ~ 23 years ago.

This is where missions really started for us 23 years ago ~ with a group of young Lutheran high school students who took up the tremendous task laid before them with grace and valor, traveling to Russia over Easter to share time with Novogord School 31, bonding with students with whom today that friendship still stands. Their example has truly affected many since those moments and time.

 

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Angkor Wat area in a Nutshell !

Ironically today TripAdvisor listed Siem Reap Cambodia #8 of the top destinations to visit in the world, just as I was thinking to share a speck of the area in our backyard called Angkor Wat. To say that this is old is an understatement, to put it mildly. If anyone who has not ventured into learning about Angkor Wat, this is your chance to see a bit of it to jumpstart you.

 
Interestingly it took a tourist police guy at Bantrey Srei to show me a feature on my phone that I hadn’t figured out how to use. I’m suspecting the man has handled many a phone in his days there so he was really adept with what he did. So I’m told that usually the police aren’t much help when you may think you need them, but the tourist police have had high marks on the expat site here and this guy lived up to that statement. Yup, we all slipped him a buck or so for his time. He knew things and saw things that could have been easily missed.

Please enjoy some pictures of the area that were taken last week located on my Facebook page if you are interested. Thank you!

https://www.facebook.com/shary.frahm

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Khmer Khronicle April 2017

KK April 2017

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A New Learning Curve

Kok Kraul primary school was visited Saturday afternoon while school was still in session. It is located between three villages and houses 125 students. The unusual part of this is that this school advances all day school, with the children coming at 7:30am and going home at 4:00pm. I was told that this is the only school with this privilege, which apparently is a pilot program between the WFP and Feed My Starving Children. These children are given lunch thru the efforts of this program, which apparently came thru the Ministry of Education. This school does not have electricity as yet, though it stands on the roadway.

 

The norm throughout this country is that children either attend morning or afternoon sessions 6 days a week. Pastor Samuel would like to advance an English program into the school, which at this point has no English instruction for either the students or the teachers.

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Church Delight in the Jungle

Kok Kreul is a village outside Siem Reap. It is obvious that this wonderful group has been meeting in worship on a regular basis to the point that we see many points of a usual worship service (confession and absolution for one) going on in the midst of the norm of khmer language always used. These folk have no modern conveniences such as electricity so if they own a TV it is operated by a battery or generator. They put a tarp down on the floor so its reasonably clean for worship. There is no fan to move the stifling heat in the room, and since it’s in the jungle, there isn’t much breeze.
Shoes are left at the door. These people are joyful and when they come together it shows their love for Jesus. Age range is 7 months to 70 years. All are female, except some young teen males. They open each service with songs of praise, and they practice these songs before they begin service. They give thanks for the offering that is gathered amongst them at each service.

This is also where one of the English programs has been going on for a short period now. Yesterday one of the ladies I had seen during English class sat down on the green mat with me and clearly spoke “How are you doing today?” and thereafter she replied in clear conversation “I am very fine, thank you.”IMG_9626 IMG_9627 IMG_9628 IMG_9629 IMG_9631

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