Takeo Christmas

Believe it or not, this is a Christmas photo here in Cambodia. In the United States, Christmas photos normally consist of Christmas trees and snow. However, here in Cambodia, the perfect day for a Christmas celebration is a cool, sunny morning when the leaves are falling lazily from the trees. This is Christmas is the Takeo province, and we hope that you enjoy reading more about it.


We were asked to lead the children’s program for the Christmas service. Because we had the entire morning and because there were nearly one hundred children in attendance, we had big job ahead of us, and we knew that we were going to have a great time.


Tiffany prepared the lesson for the children, but we asked several of our female students to come along with us to Takeo to teach the lesson. Here you are seeing Tiffany and three of her students, SoPhol, Theavey, and Zanda doing a warm-up / morning massage exercise at the beginning of the lesson.


These three young women are training to be pastors. God has blessed them all with the gift of working with children, and here in Takeo they were able to use those gifts and their training that they received from Tiffany’s course on Child Evangelism to minister to the children. Here you are seeing Zanda explaining the principles of Light and Darkness.


It was very rewarding to see our students performing so well, but it was also very inspiring to see their ministry resulting in several of the children accepting Jesus as their Savior. Here you are seeing several of the children saying the Sinners Prayer at the close of the lesson.


Because we had the entire morning, we also had time for games. With each new game, the children became more and more excited, laughing and shouting loudly to each other. One of the games that we played was Samson, Delilah and the Lion, a Biblified (is that even a word?) version of Rock, Paper, Scissors. Tim was the leader of the boys’ team, who in the end were victorious over the girls.


We also played several games with balloons. Because it was a breezy day and because balloons just have a habit of running away throughout the day, we decided to use the largest storage area that we could, our car. We did this at the beginning of the day, and though we were all out of breath from blowing up so many balloons, the children had a great time stuffing as many balloons as they could into our Camry.


It was a great morning of ministry, but also of fellowship with our students. Seeing them in the ministry, teaching children, and helping with the service was very rewarding to us as their teachers. We praise God for giving us this great day here in Cambodia.


We also had a great amount of fun with the children. Here you are seeing them pose for a picture shortly after we finished our lesson.


Hey! Watch where you are going! Here you are seeing Leak and Som On taking a spin on someone’s bicycle before the services began in the morning.


It was a great morning in Takeo. Here you are seeing Tiffany posing with Teacher Channy, Theavey, SoPhol, Som On and Zanda as they sat down to the meal that followed the service.