Teaching and Scraping Walls

I'll give you a short recap of the last few days. Sunday we went to church. It was actually not too bad considering it was mostly in a different language. On Saturday the pastor asked us to do part of the service. We said we would do our drama and share 2 testimonies. The morning of he asked one of the guys (Brent) to preach that day. We are learning to be prepared for anything and really listen to what God wants to say through us in every situation. Next week we will be doing the entire service, including worship. We actually have almost a full worship team within our team so that has been awesome to worship almost every night. We go on the roof of our guesthouse where we can see the entire town and the ocean. It's beautiful up there at night and a perfect place to meet for worship, prayer, and team bonding. We are so thankful for God blessing us with such a nice place to stay.

Monday was our first day with the school. Some of us were going to observe the English classes to get an idea how we can help teach. That observing turned into teaching right away. We walked into a 2nd grade class after lunch and the principal let us in. I guess the teacher was gone that day. He just said, "you teach." So we looked around the room and just started throwing stuff together. That happened the entire day. Despite not being prepared to actually teach, let alone be in a Cambodian classroom with no Cambodian teachers it went really well. It's surprising how much the let us do. I don't think you would have known that we were coming up with stuff on the spot. The loved the songs we taught them. Now we have a few lesson plans so hopefully we'll get better every day. We also led the teacher devotional this morning and will every morning. They are super willing to let us do anything. The rest of the team has been scraping paint off a wall all around the orphanage and school. We are about half done scraping after 3 days of work. Then we will be painting the wall. That should go a lot faster.

The team is really starting to come together and we're getting serious about why we're here. We're starting to talk to more and more people around us about God. And we've been doing intercession twice a day. Tonight and on New Years Eve we will do a prayer walk down at the beach. That is where all the prostitutes are as well as men who hire them and men who abuse children are. Pray that we would be bold and talk/pray for whoever God leads us to. We've been praying for healing over some of the beggers and will continue that. We want to see miracles. Happy New Years!