Doug and Suzanne Lyte and Michelle Thomson are booked to go in January 6th-19th 2010 to Cambodia
to support our Missionaries Mimi and Didi, as well as the local church they are working with.
Below is a recent email Mimi and Didi wrote to the church:
 
Dear Family at DCC,
Greetings from the very windy highlands of Cambodia!
Imagine Doug, Suzanne and Mich needing to put up their own accommodation on the camp-site.
(They will not have tents, but they’ll have some pieces of wood and some tarpaulin. I think we may
all come back to our home to sleep overnight. But then that’s no longer camping, right? Mind you,
even indoors here in our houses it may well be in-door camping for them.) Imagine Bunong folks
staring at Mich as they may never have seen someone so very pale before, and so tall for a woman!
Thank you for lending them to us for a while, thank you for supporting them in myriad ways to enable
them to come.
 
The OuReang church has no idea of what a ‘church camp’ means. Well, there is no word for camp in
Bunong, so we have explained to the leadership as just “…all the families being together, cook and
eat together, and have lots of worship meetings and games. We’ll pray for God’s healing upon many
people…” They can’t see it all in their minds but they are excited because they don’t have much in
their lives to excite them.
 
Even spiritually they do not see supernatural things that are exciting. They love to listen to the Bible
being taught but they don’t read the Bible for themselves. There is a lot of physical sickness
amongst them. They have not seen and do not see His power work amongst them, nor understand
the incredible power of God. They love to pray but it seems to be only a ritual and we think they believe
in the power of the words in the prayer and in the person praying – this may stem from their
traditional powerful ‘shamans’ and ‘chants’ – rather than knowing God well and believing in Him.
So we pray that in the short time the DCC team is here, God will show His healing power, touch their
hearts to see revelations in the Word, see some lives truly transformed.
 
When we first mentioned the idea of ‘coming together’ for 3 days, their first reaction was “where are
we going to get money to feed ourselves?”. This is symbolic both of the spirit of poverty and their
actual poverty. So we wrote to Doug to see if DCC could contribute something towards the camp.
There is nothing at the campsite, so they will find things around to build their lodging. It’ll be like a
real rough Boy Scouts’ Camp. We’ll need money for food and prizes for games. It will be a real treat
for them.
 
So the church camp is 2-pronged:
1. for them to taste God’s presence in their midst– outpouring of His Spirit upon the Bunong church
2. for them to just have fun– away from the drabness of their lives
which is a problem here.
 
Please be praying for the team that they get God’s insight to minister
here and to share with all of you back home.
We ourselves need encouragement too. So we pray through this
little team, God will encourage us.
Journeying together, Didi & MiMi
 
For more info for how to support the team heading over, and if
you have anything for us to pass on to Mimi and Didi, see Doug.