Last month Rundell and Judi Maree came to visit us for a Sunday. Rundell was the consultant who did the check on Jarai Matthew 1-16 chapters. It was great to spend time with the Marees and learn from them and their experiences. Judi took lots of pictures and shared them with us. She said she knows the missionaries usually don’t have time to take pictures of their ministries and she likes to do that for them. So here’s a few from our normal Sundays…
Our Sunday begins around 8:30 with Sunday School. There are four groups: men, women, children, and youth. The men and women meet outside, the youth meets in the church building, and the children meet in the old church building. Somewhere around 9:30 or 10 we gathering in the main building for church.
Twice a month we have a neighborhood Bible Club in the afternoon at our home. This includes games, singing, Bible lesson, and snack. We have a completely new group of kids coming since we got back from our time in the States. It’s been a good change and the group of mostly older elementary girls seems to be attentive.
Sunday evenings (no pictures) we have a Bible study with a few adults and some children. We sing, Josh teaches a lessons from Firm Foundations, and we pray and then have snacks.
Last week the Cambodian government asked all religious gatherings (Buddhist, Islam, Christian, etc) to stop until the Covid-19 situation is eased. (Public and private schools have been closed as well.) This means no church or Bible club for the time being. We were told that we can meet in groups of 5-10 people (which is slightly hard for us when our family already equals 7!). We plan to still have our Sunday night Bible study, but we will restrict it to people 13 and older – which will keep our numbers down (it’s around our kids bedtime anyway, so we’ll just let them read in their room).