Cambodia Report
by Josh Hamby SOC Director
In 2008 Pastor Clendennen conducted the first SOC in Cambodia. We had many students from Cambodia graduate the schools in Indonesia and Malaysia but until 08 we had not conducted a school in Cambodia.
I was not able to attend that school but months later I was told by Pastor Clendennen it was one of the hardest schools he had ever taught. He said, "They show no emotion, they can't read, and you really don't know if they are understanding or not what you are preaching."
The School of Christ teaches that fruit is only known in its second generation. "The Church today will be judged by the disciples she produces." So when we received a call from K.D. Sophat to please come to Phnom Penh I was very excited. K.D. Sophat is the head military General to the Senate of Cambodia.
He had attended that first school in Cambodia and he was moved by the message and knew Christians in his country needed this message from God's word. With the country being 2% Christian and still hundreds of villages that have never heard the name of Jesus the only answer is for the Church to rise up and carry the gospel to them, to those perishing for bread and thirsting for living water.
I was blessed to have Brother Fred Wynn, evangelist from Oklahoma, accompanying me on this historic trip. We had 41 students from all over Cambodia and a few from the border of Laos. On the first day God came down in such a mighty way. The students stood for over half an hour with their hands raised as tears came down their face.
From the very first lesson there was a complete liberty to minister. Not one student was late for prayer and we were told that many students were up at 3am already in the prayer room. Even before the school was over we were getting asked to come to their churches and conduct a school. Everyone agreed this message of Pentecost is the answer to reaching Cambodia.
Brother K.D. Sophat was greatly moved by the change in the people. He told us never had he seen people seek the Lord as these changed students. With his government position he has asked us to come back and run 5 schools next year in the North East, North West, Central, South East and South West. Also he has promised military clearance to any village we would like to go and preach.
Today is a new day in Cambodia and with the genocide of the 70's, refugee camps of the 80's, and extreme poverty during the past 20 years behind them people are looking for hope, looking for Christ. Not only do we know Him but He lives in us and through us. Cambodia has around 15 million people. If the Lord tarries by 2013 we will have a church in every village of Cambodia. Not a hard task or impossible. The Lord has given us the land and now we must possess it.
In Christ,
Josh Hamby
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