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Newsletter from FirstKids Cambodia
 Greetings
from Cambodia! We are growing from strength to strength by
the Grace of God. Truly God has been our strength and very
gracious to us in all our endeavors. This has been very
challenging months for me since my coming back from my
so-called rest. As some of you are aware the Year "2005"
represents a sequence of events that brought both many
fruitful and difficult times as well. I haven’t had the time
to sit down to really assess the situations and already six
months have gone so quickly for 2006 with some eventful
happenings. To begin with, these are the new additions to
Agape Assembly Toul Kork. About 15 new believers from the
community accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their Lord and
Savior. Amen! Eight (8) of them are not in this picture
above. We are going to be 2 years old by this October 2006
and our congregation is about 45 strong. We are in the midst
of starting three (3) new home cells in our community. Keep
praying for us that we will impact the community around us
and Agape Assembly Toul Kork will grow to 150 strong
members. We are also praying for 35 adult families from the
community to joint and be part of our church. Please commit
yourself to pray and intercede along with us to see these
vision and dream become a reality. Amen.
Our students having fun! It’s
water time! As you can see they are having a gala time
swimming and playing with water. To some of them it’s the
first time to swim or to play with water in this magnitude.
Some of these children do not have the luxury of toilets or
bathrooms like what we have in Malaysia. They do have small
toilets with pails like in the villages. Boy! Do they having
a good time on this water day!
 On
another note at FKKC our students get to learn all about
computers and have computer lessons with its entire
curriculum. It’s part of our vision to train these children
in their formative years. In the community there are those
who are very rich and those who are very poor. The rich
families send their children to better schools because they
have this misconception that cheaper school fees equal’s
poorer standard of education. Not necessarily the case!
There are many schools in Phnom Penh are “NGO” or church
based schools. They do not charge high school fees to
accommodate the less fortunate ones. Most Cambodians do not
know or understand well enough this information. They think
most “NGO” or church based schools are cheap schools for the
poor therefore the education system must be bad. There is a
saying in Cambodia that goes like this… “Good things come
expensive.” Research shows many of these schools that charge
expensive school fees do not have proper curriculum or good
teachers. Many are volunteer teachers for short-term period
only. The students always have new teachers after every
three or four months.
This year our ESL (English as Second Language) program has
been a great blessing to us here in FKC. As you cansee these
students are performing skits and drama in their own
language to minister to their own people. They have been
blessed by sharing their own testimony to friends and
families. Volunteers (Barbara Read; Leah and Yvonne Norman)
from Australia have been great blessings and help to us as
friends in time of needs. These ladies have sacrificed their
time and financial resources to come and teach both in our
ESL and kindergarten. Our doors are always open for them to
serve here in Cambodia anytime and we welcome others
like-minded people as well.
 Praise
God! These are three new motorbikes sponsored by individuals
and Re-Gen ministries from Australia to be used for the
village ministry at Takhmau. It has enabled the local
ministers do their work more effectively. In many ways it
enables them to cover more areas than before with less time
and efforts. Friends and sponsors please pray along with us
that the new village ministry at Takhmau will grow to be a
strong out-reach reaching out to its community. Amen! Hot
from FirstKids Cambodia.
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