Wendy & Yong's letters from Cambodia

Here is Wendy & Yong's Christmas Greeting 2024

‘giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves’  Colossians 1:12-13 

Dear Family and Friends,

Thank you for your ongoing journey with us here in Cambodia. As we approach Christmas, we pray for you, that it will be a time to celebrate the birth of our Saviour, to enjoy and appreciate the gift of our families, to give thanks to God for all His provisions and blessings as we reflect on the completing year. We pray you may experience a season of singing, of joy and generosity. 

Following on from our October news, we are thankful that the hospital power supply was repaired and resolved after three weeks of challenges! Throughout October and November we have been completing the annual staff reviews at the hospital, we have also had another 2 nurses join our team, which is wonderful. We will sadly also say goodbye to one nurse who wants to devote more time to her studies and our head nurse continues on maternity leave so we have plenty of work to do!  

We are also thankful that in November Wendy was able to make a short visit to see her dad, which was timely as he was recovered from pneumonia. God provided in so many ways for Wendy to do this trip, including funding for the ticket, release from work through the hospital team, the wonderful hospitality received in the UK- dear friends and also new friends made through airbnb! 

Our ICF church is growing again after so many turnovers. There are more small children in the church, a new engaged couple and some new members. The pastor asked us together to be the church’s homegroup coordinators. The job required that we front-end anyone seeking to join a homegroup. We ask them some general questions and see which homegroup would best fit them. We would need to meet with the homegroup leaders to see if they have any needs. Hopefully this would lend structures to how the homegroups would run. We are delighted to be asked to take up the positions and we are cautiously stepping into the role.

Pray and thanksgiving:

• Thank God for the restored fixed power supply. 

• Please continue to pray for the journey to faith among our staff- especially for the 4 nurses in our team who don’t yet believe and follow Jesus. 

• Please pray for and rejoice in the upcoming hospital all staff retreat- an annual 3 day gathering for fellowship, prayer and re-commitment to the vision and values of MMCC hospital, December 6th-8th.

• Thank God for Wendy to have some time visiting her dad in November. 

• Pray during the Christmas services and fellowships that the churches across Cambodia would warmly welcome curious newcomers and proclaim the good news of Jesus' birth- Immanuel. 

• We have a few friends coming to visit and stay with us in January/February- we pray for their safe travel, that their time here would be full of God’s presence and purposes.

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