Messy Church

Yesterday was a day where I was able to linger on the two extremes of the human story.

Spending several hours at Tual Sleng, the elementary school turned concentration camp.  Lingering over the countless pictures of people waiting to be tortured and executed by the Khmer Rouge.  I spent about twenty minutes in a room with cases of human skulls, where you could see the evidence of blunt head trauma or gunshot wounds.  I walked into the cells were the prisioners were kept- looked at the leg irons that gnawed through skin and ligament to bone as prisoners were strapped to beds and electrocuted.  All of this in the name of NO God.  People talk of the attrocities committed in the name of religion, but perhaps they should linger on the atrocities committed in the name of no religion other than the religion on self.

 Contrast that with hours of hugging and singing, wrestling and playing with the children who live in our orphan home.  Guys this place is a patch of heaven. IN a place where so much darkness abounds (human trafficing, child sex slaves, government corruption, etc) in this small house the kingdom of Jesus Christ reigns supreme. These kids are treated as God intended.  Every day they learn of the Love of Jesus at school, over home cooked meals, games, in \the new families they have found.  On the way to the orphanage we see children picking through dumpsters for scraps of food.  When I look at the smiling healthy faces of our children, It is hard to grasp that they used to be the ones looking for food in the garbage! 

 I spent a lot of time talking with Narun, the director of our orphanage- dreaming of opportunities for our Church to start another one. 

Satan has tried to destroy this country- but we are seeing evidences of Jesus taking it back. We will just need anothe 40 people to sacrifice 40.00 a month in order to start another orphanage. My dream is to bring my whole family out here. I’m sure the kids would love to stay with the kids at our orphan house.

We spent the day driving to Siem Riep. On the way we passed a 4 square Gospel Orphanage. We stopped, met the directors and were able to pray with them and leave them with a financial blessing.

I have so much more to right- but I know JMC is probably doing a much better job at it two internet kiosks over.

 Please Pray for me as I prepare for sharing an evangelistic talk on Saturday, and for my preaching at Narin Chey’s church two times on Sunday!