Recently the children at Serve Cambodia’s education centres have been making special thankyou cards to send to their sponsors in Australia and around the world. They wrote and decorated messages of love and appreciation to their sponsors, who have made it possible for them to attend either Tarsha’s Legacy Centre or Harvest of Hope.

The children value their education so highly, and can see that they now have a bright future to look towards. We would also like to say thankyou to all of our supporters and sponsors who are helping to give these children hope and a future. We praise God for each of you!

In a few weeks time sponsors can look forward to seeing one of these special cards arriving in their letter box! If you don’t have a sponsor child but would like to support and encourage one of the children still in need of sponsorship – please send an email to enquiries@servecambodia.net so that Sam and Sochea can organise this for you.

HOH · Sponsorships · TLC

We would like to wish everyone a Happy Khmer New Year from Fellowship of Hope! Officially, Khmer New Year was celebrated from the 13th to the 15th of April, but the occasion was celebrated for much longer than just the 3-day public holiday. The children at TLC and HOH were also excited to celebrate with their classmates and teachers. This was a time all the children and staff could have fun together before travelling to their ‘home towns’ in the countryside for a week-long holiday with extended family.

At TLC, students had a great time playing many different games together. Some of these were traditional Khmer games which have been played for many years in the past, and some activities like the three legged race and games with balloons and soccer balls were new ones to try. The children really enjoyed all the games and lined up with excitement to wait for their turn.

At HOH, the students also enjoyed games with balls and balloons. Plus they played some games which were all about teaching the children team unity and how to work together. The games were followed by a big celebration meal. As the children come from poor families, it is a huge delight for them to join in with a large group celebration like this one.

Thanks again to everyone who has supported Serve Cambodia’s work over the years. We are so grateful to God that so many children can be blessed through the TLC and HOH education centres.

HOH · Khmer New Year · Sponsorships · TLC

In July last year, we held our second training conference for all of the pastors serving around Cambodia under the Fellowship of Hope banner, plus pastors from some of our sister churches as well. Click here to read all about it, and to see some photos of the pastors and ministry leaders gathered together.

In July this year we will be holding our 3rd Pastors Training Conference. Once again our friends from Perth Bible College will be organising this conference with us, and will be sending a team to provide teaching and training for our pastors and leaders. Please read the conference information below (you can click to enlarge), and we would greatly appreciate your prayers and financial support to make this planned conference a reality.

Please pray that God uses this conference to strengthen, equip and unite our pastors in their service of our Lord Jesus. If you are able to help towards the cost of running the conference, then please send your donations directly to Perth Bible College. And if you would like to spread the word among your own congregation, then please email them a link to our website or to our new Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/ServeCambodiaFellowshipOfHope).

Bible teaching · Pastor · Perth Bible College

Exciting progress has been made recently with two of the construction projects at Happy Village: The completion of the ‘Happy Village Products’ sewing room, and the next stage of building homes for the Kian Klieng relocation project.

With the help of Mission Direct the new sewing room has now been completed. Here are some photos to show you the improved facilities they have helped to create. As you can see, this is a wonderful space for the women to continue their good work supporting their families. We are so grateful for Mission Direct’s ongoing support over the years. They have made a huge contribution to many of Serve Cambodia’s facilities and they are always a pleasure to work with.

If you have visited our new Facebook page recently (http://www.facebook.com/ServeCambodiaFellowshipOfHope), you will have also seen many photos of the work that has now begun on the new homes in Happy Village. 8 new homes will take shape over the next few weeks so that families from Kian Klieng slum can be moved from their poor and unsafe conditions into a cleaner and healthier environment. As you can see, there is a lot of hard work going on and these eight homes are going up very quickly! Song and his team of builders are doing an excellent job as always. And Song expressed again this week that he and his team feel grateful for being able to support their families financially by being employed to work on this project.

Once this first block of 8 homes are complete, then the final 16 new homes will be built next at Prey Sor (near Harvest of Hope). The foundations have been prepared at Prey Sor already, and we are praying that God will provide the remaining funding that is required (averaged out at AUD$4,500 per home) over the next few months.

We hope that you will continue to pray for us and support us as this work continues. Some supporters in particular have been working very hard to make this project possible and their contribution is very appreciated. The fundraising committees in Devonport, Tasmania and Wagga, New South Wales have led the way with fundraising from the beginning of this relocation project - thank you all so much!

Construction · Current Needs · Happy Village · Kian Klieng · Mission Direct · Praise Point · Prey Sor · Sewing project · Song