The most profound moment was the final evening when two Khmer YWAMers spoke on revelation they’ve been receiving lately. The first spoke to the reality that the country of Cambodia has been on the receiving end of help for years and would never consider being ones to offer help to other nations. Then he brought the strong challenge to the group that as leaders they are no longer called to only receive but to be a source of leadership to the nations around. He brought to light many lies that the nations has believed that would keep them from walking in this call and they repented and agreed with the Lord about the new day upon them! What a joy!

We responded with a roar of worship that declared how great our God is and recognized that he is appointing us all to be leaders in this generation to transform the country of Cambodia. He has already anointed us and is now sending us out to reach this nation and the surrounding nations. YWAM is to be from every nation, to every nation. So Khmer young people are being called not just to Cambodia, but to the other nations in the world to prove that out of weakness and brokenness God can bring such incredible power. I believe it was a very important night for this nation and will be a big part of this group moving into a new season. It was so exciting to be a part of it! As the Khmer prayed out in their own language I couldn’t understand their words, but the Holy Spirit was so powerful crossing every language barrier and touching the hearts of every one in the room. We sang many Khmer songs which were so fun to lead with my friend Date as they would sing out with all their hearts to the Lord. They declared from the top of their lungs that nothing will stop them from taking the Gospel across this nation and no matter the cost they would walk in obedience to this call! What a great night!

I’m so thankful to the Lord for the opportunity to hear the hearts of this nation and declare together with them that this nation is ripe for a great harvest! It is a new day here and I’m excited to hear the reports in the coming years!

I’m struck by the fact that the facets of the Lord are endless and we could worship the Lord uniquely each day for the rest of our lives and never exhaust the nature and character of God. I know for me as I have entered into missions the last 18 months I have had a new revelation of who the Lord is and the significance of worshiping Him with every tribe, tongue, and nation! It is one of my favorite things to do! The more nations, the better, and I truly believe the Lord feels the same way! If you’ve never had that experience then I encourage you to do whatever it takes to put yourself in a situation where you can worship the Lord with people of a different culture. It will change the way you worship for good!

For the last couple weeks as a team we have had a growing sense that the young people we are teaching are very receptive and hungry to know Jesus. In prayer, we felt that this Friday was going to be a day where many would come to Christ. We have learned from our hosts that in Cambodian culture people will raise their hand when asked to in response to a Gospel presentation out of respect for the speaker. We were wrestling through how to give them a chance to authentically respond to the Gospel and not simply respond out of respect for our team. In prayer we felt that we would ask anyone who had a desire to commit their lives to Christ to stay after class so we could clearly lead them through the decision to say no to every other religion and say yes to Jesus. We wanted it to be very clear that you cannot worship Jesus and Buddha, but only Jesus!

All week we had been sharing the reality of God’s desire for relationship with us, our separation from God because of sin, and God’s solution through the sacrifice of His Son Jesus on the cross. Friday we reviewed all these details and gave them all a chance to respond by staying after class and out of 120, 37 stayed after to commit their lives to Christ! Our team is thrilled that this village is being transformed by the love of Jesus Christ! This is only the beginning and we believe that there is going to be many more young people that give their lives to Jesus. We are trusting for an entire village to turn to Jesus and follow Him alone for the rest of their lives!

This has been one of the greatest highlights of our outreach in Thailand and Cambodia! The great thing is we still have four weeks to disciple our new brothers and sisters in Christ and believe for more and more to come!

We have been sharing daily with about 100 students at the University of Nations Youth Center in Battambang and also another 60 children in a nearby village. In both of these places we have begun to see physical healings and salvation that has been such an incredible joy!

As I lead a young man to the Lord on Sunday he declared that he felt so loved by the Father as He surrendered his life to Jesus. He clearly renounced believing in every other religion and gave his life completely to Jesus Christ as the Lord of his life. It was such an incredible privilege to pray with him and see such an authentic decision to follow Jesus.

Pray for us as we continue to invest our lives into this beautiful community and believe for real lasting transformation in individual lives and this community in Cambodia. We believe that what we have seen this past weekend is just a small taste of what we will be  apart of the next 6 weeks here in Battambang, Cambodia! Join with us to see this come to pass.

We have joined Mileng in teaching English and Bible to about 60 young people each morning and have been meeting their families all week. The families have been so excited to welcome our team into their homes and are looking forward to coming together as a community this Sunday to discover more about God’s love for their community and each of them individually.

We couldn’t be more thrilled at the chance to work together in this community to see it touched by the love of Christ! Pray with us that there will be amazing fruit that will last in this community!

It started with about 50 youth and has grown over the last number of years to be a group of 500 young people who gather to learn English and are loved by amazing Christians and given opportunities to hear of the love of Christ for each one of them. Many of these young people have come to know the Lord personally and also many have joined YWAM staff as full-time workers in the mission field here in Cambodia and other parts of the world.

We are teaching close to 100 young people and loving it! Our team is coming alive as they are getting the chance to share openly with each of these students. Teaching English is such an effective form of evangelism because the young people that are coming have a desire to learn and grow each day. Stay tuned for more updates and incredible testimonies of how God is moving in this beautiful nation! Many Blessings to you all!

Aaron

Through all of this and more we have fallen in love with this nation. Two weeks has hardly been enough to satisfy my longing to spend more time in this beautiful country. Today as I looked ahead to the Call2All DTS in April of 2011 I started thinking of spending a few months here for outreach. I believe God is preparing this land for a great harvest and I for one would love to be a part of it. I certainly think that having a ministry on the largest university in the world is fairly strategic!

My prayer is that we have been a blessing to the ministry here with YWAM Thailand. I know they have been an incredible blessing to us. I believe the fruit we have seen over our short time is being passed on to very capable hands and I believe the seeds we’ve sown will be watered and harvested. I believe the water we’ve poured on the soil is soon to produce a great harvest that the team here is so ready for! I would encourage as many as possible to come join this family here in Thailand to work the field in this nation. I believe you will love every minute! I definitely have!

Today is yet another day filled with service projects and evangelism at the university. Pray for us that the Lord would go before us and prepare the way of the hearts that we meet. We want to see continued harvest while we are here and are grateful for every opportunity to share His love in these communities!

Thanks to everyone who is praying with us!

That’s right, with the joy of a child he came into the family of God and is going to be bringing his friends with him. In a couple days he is going to meet with our team again and bring a couple friends. He told our team that he would bring them and they would love to read the bible together and he was happy to lead the time! This is the sound of an evangelist!

Pray for our team as we minister at this campus and with children in this community. We believe God wants to touch this nation powerfully and our prayer is that we can be used over the course of our short time here to start something that will continue and even grow once we leave this area. God, let it be!

Today we continued our orientation to this area by visiting a Buddhist temple. What an amazing experience to see how deeply engrained this religion is in Thailand. Over 94% of those in Thailand are Buddhists. Our hearts truly broke for the people living under the lies that they need to earn merits with a god to gain favor with him. My Jesus is so good! He has loved me when I merited nothing and gave me complete and total forgiveness when it was the last thing on my mind.

This evening our team ventured out to the university campus across the street to meet people and trust for open doors to share Christ’s love on this campus. The reports have been so wonderful as many friends were made and doors are opening to see God move powerfully in this part of Bangkok.

Tomorrow we begin our work with the wonderful King’s Kids team and will also continue to build relationships at the university here. Join us in prayer as we trust God to breakthrough in this nation!