The Khmer Khronicle

From Global Lutheran Outreach missionarie Sharolyn Frahm (Serving in Cambodia)

It has been a long year. For many it has been a longer, almost two year stretch, into a new norm. I can raise my hand on that one.

Maybe it is time for me to rejoice in the ‘years’. rejoice, and be glad in it. May we all embrace this wondrous Jesus season.

Each day I am able to wake up and praise God for another day in His world to be His hands and feet. Some days it’s not been easy, and some days I think I’ve not done as good as I should have, but I know God’s grace reigns in my world.

Each Christmas I am reminded of the best Christmas gift of all that I have been given…Thank you Father.

And also that none of this may never have happened to me if God had not given me a husband who loved me like God himself does, and because of these two, I am forever His.

May you have a blessed ‘Jesus’ birthday Christmas…because of this one day each of us is earmarked.

Love, Shary .., and George who proofreads this in heaven.

Update Cambodia
This past week we were able to get a strong internet signal for over an hour, giving us some wonderful time to talk about life in general, ministry in Siem Reap, and some new goals going into 2022.

Cambodia now has open borders with no testing requirements prior to arrival for all those who have been vaccinated. Surrounding countries are not all on the same page as yet.

2022 will soon be ringing in as a new year for each of us. A clean slate, a new agenda, and at this point an empty calendar to start with. As we each ponder how this new year will be wrapped up, spread out, and used day by day, I pray each one of us is doing just that…to take time to listen to what God would have in store for us in our daily lives in service to Him.

For me, the tug and nudge to return to Cambodia is paramount, God willing of course. When we left the last time from Siem Reap, the ministry platform was growing by leaps and bounds.

Remember these young adults are the largest percentage of Khmer out there these days. These kids have not known the ravages of war nor displacement, and have grown up with at least some food in their bellies. Now many are searching for, and many have found, is that Jesus yearns to be solidly set in each heart.
Praise God for each and every soul who accepts the offer of salvation in that life journey.

As I write this today, George has been wearing his heavenly crown for over five months already. In his physical absence here, I am forever grateful for the hands and feet of church members and family and friends who have stepped forward into areas they knew better than I did. Even more so, the three adult kiddos and their families have encircled me tightly with their love, patience, and guidance in so many situations. So blessed *_*.

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Christmas is in the air…

As we just celebrated Thanksgiving, and begin to conclude this year with the Christmas season we are reminded more than ever of the many things to be thankful for. I am thankful for my education, my experiences of the past, my family, my friends in Guatemala, my work, my students, my church, and my supporters of my ministry. All of this has made me who I am today and has brought me to Zacapa to work as a missionary.

MOST eyeglass team
Like I previously stated, a team from MOST ministries was sent to Zacapa starting the week of Oct. 31st to host an eyeglass clinic. If you are not familiar with MOST ministries, they are a Lutheran short-term mission sending organization based out of Michigan that send groups all over the world to share the love of Jesus through various methods. On this trip they hosted an eye clinic at the Lutheran School in Zacapa where they did general eye checkups and gave eyeglasses and sunglasses to people that need them. I assisted that week at the clinic in translating at various stations, and got to meet many people from Zacapa that attended, as well as the team members from the states. One of the members of the team was Pastor Walt Schoenfuhs. Here is a crazy connection for you: Pastor Walt was the pastor of my mother’s church back in the 1980’s, and married my parents! And here he is in Zacapa taking a picture with me! It was great to connect with him as well as several of the team members.

What’s coming up this month?
Now into the month December, Christmas music can be heard in my classroom. This month I gained two new students, one on guitar and one on saxophone. Both students are using instruments donated by generous supporters of my ministry. Thank you! Pictured below is the first saxophone lesson.

With my more advanced students we continue to work on preparing them to play on Sundays, and now I have a larger selection of students to choose from so we have a nice rotation from week to week. Hopefully we can work up something special amongst the musicians for Christmas Eve.

New missionaries!
The theme of Global Lutheran Outreach is to send missionaries “from anywhere to anywhere!”. And that is exactly what they are doing. The newest missionary family that is preparing to go to the mission field is Victor, Belen, and Sophia Rivas. Victor and Belen are a young couple with a 4 yr old daughter from Guatemala that are in the support raising phase before they can serve in the South American country of Guyana. Victor, with a background in education and a gift of working with youth, and Belen, as a musician and Sunday School teacher, this couple is well equipped to reach lost souls in Guyana. Pray for them, and look them up on the GLO website or Facebook page to learn more and follow their latest post, and consider supporting them as well as they begin this journey. They will be the first Guatemalan Lutheran missionaries to serve abroad.

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