This is Travis after getting off of a plane in Siem Reap. It was the final leg of a long journey from Memphis to Cambodia. After this picture we met our translators and rode with them for 2 hrs from Siem Reap to Poi Pet. When we arrived at the Poi Pet city hotel we rested up for the next two days of teaching.
Here we have a picture of Pepper teaching the concept of multiplication. We taught 25 or so church leaders. These leaders were hungry and worked very hard to copy down what we were teaching.
After each teaching session we broke into groups so that each table could begin reteaching the lesson to one another. After each session of reteaching we then would get together to pray through the material so that God would use the material in our lives and to pray for those who the leaders would then go and minister to.
This is a group of pastors ranging from 40-60 years of age. Their stories were so encouraging. We met pastors who were victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide as well as pastors who had worked for the Khmer Rouge. It was amazing the way they loved each other and accepted one another after some being on opposite side of such a tumultuous past.
This is Pepper and Travis with our translators Bopea (left) and Poline (right). After teaching Bopea and Police took us back to Siem Reap for a few days of sight seeing. Bopea and Police are leaders of the church here in Cambodia. Bopea overseas the newest, most up to date Bible translation of the Khmer language. They both oversea ministering to church leaders and leading church planting efforts. They both are married, have children, and live in the capitol city of Phnom Phen.
On Sunday we got to visit a worship service at an orphanage in Poi Pet. Here you can see some of the younger leaders carrying out a drama about the Gospel. They were teaching the orphans there that good works won't get you to heaven and that only faith in Jesus will get you to heaven.
While we were at the orphanage Travis made some new friends. He was a natural with the children there. I'm not sure that they would have let him leave if they had been given the choice.
This is the Old Testament overview that I taught in one of the sessions. I was very encouraged because Bopea had mentioned that the leaders didn't have much exposure to map education and that the overview would be a huge help to them.
This is the group seeing the Angkor Wat temple in Siem Reap. This 12th century temple was a tremendous site to see. It took approximately 5,000 workers and roughly 200 years to build. Travis fed some monkeys and we drank from fresh coconuts. Quite the experience.
Here we have a picture of Pepper teaching the concept of multiplication. We taught 25 or so church leaders. These leaders were hungry and worked very hard to copy down what we were teaching.
After each teaching session we broke into groups so that each table could begin reteaching the lesson to one another. After each session of reteaching we then would get together to pray through the material so that God would use the material in our lives and to pray for those who the leaders would then go and minister to.
This is a group of pastors ranging from 40-60 years of age. Their stories were so encouraging. We met pastors who were victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide as well as pastors who had worked for the Khmer Rouge. It was amazing the way they loved each other and accepted one another after some being on opposite side of such a tumultuous past.
This is Pepper and Travis with our translators Bopea (left) and Poline (right). After teaching Bopea and Police took us back to Siem Reap for a few days of sight seeing. Bopea and Police are leaders of the church here in Cambodia. Bopea overseas the newest, most up to date Bible translation of the Khmer language. They both oversea ministering to church leaders and leading church planting efforts. They both are married, have children, and live in the capitol city of Phnom Phen.
On Sunday we got to visit a worship service at an orphanage in Poi Pet. Here you can see some of the younger leaders carrying out a drama about the Gospel. They were teaching the orphans there that good works won't get you to heaven and that only faith in Jesus will get you to heaven.
While we were at the orphanage Travis made some new friends. He was a natural with the children there. I'm not sure that they would have let him leave if they had been given the choice.
This is the Old Testament overview that I taught in one of the sessions. I was very encouraged because Bopea had mentioned that the leaders didn't have much exposure to map education and that the overview would be a huge help to them.
This is the group seeing the Angkor Wat temple in Siem Reap. This 12th century temple was a tremendous site to see. It took approximately 5,000 workers and roughly 200 years to build. Travis fed some monkeys and we drank from fresh coconuts. Quite the experience.
