First day in Sihanoukville

Yesterday we took a four hour bus ride to Sihanoukville on the coast of Cambodia. It was a pleasant ride and we had air conditioning. We arrived and took tuk-tuks to our guesthouse. It's quite funny trying to pile all our stuff inside a vehicle meant for just 4 people. We got checked in and had some dinner at our guesthouse. After that four of us (Brent, Isaac, Keara, and Megan) left to go check out the town. We ended up at the beach. It's a really nice beach but this area is filled with lost people who came here to do bad things (such as sleep with prostitutes, drugs, alcohol, and even abuse the children who wander at night). They call this area the Pattya of Cambodia. We got down to the beach last night wanting God to move in some way. The four of us prayed as we started walking that God would take us out of our comfort zones. We saw this guy begging in the sand who couldn't walk. He was crawling on his hands. We walked past him and the stopped and prayed a little ways off. Keara heard God say that if he came and sat behind us we would pray for him. As we finished praying there he was. We asked if we could pray for him and he had a friend come over to translate. He said yes. We did and he was very grateful. But the best part was after when we wanted to tell him about Jesus but ended up talking to the translator. He said he wanted to know Jesus and have him come into his life. He wants to talk to us more about it. We got his number and plan to go back soon to meet up with both guys. We are trying to get our hands on a Bible in Khmer but the goverment makes it hard to get them in the country. Pray that we can find one for T-Ruk I think is his name and possibly locate a wheelchair for the guy who is disabled. Our plan especially over the next few days with so many tourists here for holiday is to do prayer walks and evangelism with the people here. It will be pretty intense and really challenge us to step out and be obedient to God's leading. Most of that will be on our own time. The rest of the time here we will be busy working at the school, orphanage, and with the church. We are taking on the task of repainting all the walls at both the school and orphanage. First we need to scrape them then paint. At the school we will be teaching English, teaching devotions, teaching sports, and I'm sure a lot more. At the orphanage we will do more of the same and just spend time with the kids. We just found out that tomorrow we are performing our drama in church and sharing testimonies/a little preaching. So basically we arrived yesterday and now outreach is full on. It's awesome to see though cause we felt too much like tourists for the first few days. Now we're diving in with all we have. Please pray especially over these next few days as we go out on the streets and pray with people and tell them about Jesus.