Elspeth, who has never been sporty, has dared to try something
different and has joined the school soccer team. She played her first
match after training session and a few
helpful hints from dad. Needless to say the team is not the most professional,
more of an inclusive, ‘let everyone have a go’ type. Please pray she will
have lots of fun, get fit and learn that she can try new things.. Also
that the team will not get discouraged as they haven’t scored a goal yet
against other schools. We are grateful that Elspeth can conference-Skype
2 friends who are on HA
Catriona is still getting up early, ready to start the day,
wanting to meet up with friends as much as possible on non-school days. She
enjoys basketballs but the students were banned from taking their own balls to
school recently. She loves to collect and trade stickers. Please
pray she will be a good friend to others. So many children come and go –
goodbyes are very difficult.
Please pray that they will enjoy themselves at our church retreat,
13th- 15th May. Pray that they would have
opportunities to get to know some church members a little and feel more part of
the church. Currently they just read books or play with the daughters of
another OMF family during the service. There is sometimes a small Sunday
school for the Khmer kids but Elspeth & Catriona don’t join in as they
don’t understand much. A lot of our members know quite a lot of English
so the language is not the barrier – shyness on both sides.
Darren will lead the Bible studies for the singles, please pray as
he prepares. He says:
I will probably be doing quite a lot of teaching at the retreat,
mixed with some group work (and feel I still have a lot of preparation, I
haven’t even started to think about translating to Khmer yet). I am also
preaching the Sunday after.. Issues to do with Ministry of Religions and
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Tax are
all moving slowly – we’re waiting on others before we can do anything else,
although Field Leadership has to decide whether to go to MoFA without the MoR
MoU this decision will be taken soon,
and the next time we go to MoFA will probably be our last chance to try and get
our NGO status renewed. We are now at a decision point about the holding
company (we have all the info we require about what’s implicated in setting our
own up), or using a 3rd party – wisdom for this please
Susan, still waiting for news of English teaching. Meanwhile
I am enjoying seeing our four neighbours more.
We are grateful to God that both Elspeth & Catriona are very
settled. They don’t like even the thought of us returning to live in
Scotland. Please pray as God leads us, they will be peaceful.
Thanks for Praying.
Love Susan, Darren, Elspeth & Catriona
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