Love Cambodia

The Healing Home has been pretty well full on this last week with many comings and goings. There have been some heartening stories and some real challenges going down with us too.

Upon our return we heard that a lovely little guy who had been with us last year, Kal, was in a bad way again. He was the little bloke who was full of worms and has been diagnosed with TB. We heard that life again is a shocker for the lovely kid; his alcoholic dad had smashed up their possessions and been in fisti-cuffs with the neighbour; Kal was having to work in the fields and that his parents had not followed up on the TB medication.

We had been praying for the little fella, that there would be real answers for his situation. Now he is back with us, safely tucked under Da's caring wing. He is shy as but is beginning to cuddle into caring arms now. May God make a way for him to have a protected, nourished life.

Kal is 11 years old, but looks seven or eight. He is yet another young one who has been malnourished all his life. Here he is tucking into his lunch.

Rin, a delightful 20-something young lady, has spent 10 days with us. She was referred by a couple in our church, who live in the same village about 30 minutes out of town. They had told her about Jesus and Rin wasted no time praying to receive the Lord when she got to the home. You have never met anyone so keen to get to church; she was so excited to finally be able to go. Her neighbours can only fit their family on their motor scooter.

Sopheap praying her very best prayer for Rin just before Rin headed back to her home on Monday. Her dad has died and mum has remarried - meaning she has quit on her family. Rin lives with her sister, brother and their families, caring for their six young children six days a week.

Rin says that there are no other Christians in her village except the family who have befriended her. There is a church, she says, which gives rice to everyone who attends - but no-one who attends believes; they just come for the rice. How is that for perceptiveness from such a young one!