Mekong Floating Ministries: Church dedication

Unbelievable!

Methodist Church dedication. The Methodists are sponsored by Korea. Korea has the most involvement here. This was a very big deal. It took four years to build the church. For the first year it was outside under a trap. That was ten years ago. As you can see in the pics it was quite crowded but it was truly amazing. There were Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic. You name it. As the speaker said, "We are all followers of Jesus Christ. Makes no difference what we call ourselves."

There were over 75 pastors from all over Kampong Chanang Province. I met so many. I met the one I know the Lord wanted me to meet. He is a Vietnamese pastor in Kampong Chanang and his daughter speaks fluent Vietnamese, Khmer and English. We talked quite a bit. Told him about our ministry and what we would like to be able to do with the Vietnamese boat people in a year or so. We are going to be getting together soon. I gave his daughter my card and asked her to go to website and blog site and read. This will give her a little better idea of what we are planning on doing. They were very excited about the whole thing.

These first six pics are all of the ribbon cutting

There are 223 Buddhist Wats, 53 mosques, and 66 churches in Kampong Chanang Province. This does not include house churches here. In Kampong Chanang Province the Christian is the fastest growing. But that is not so in most other places. There is a lot of talk about how it was their responsibility to raise up leaders go out and spread the Gospel to Cambodia and the rest of the world. That they should use Korea as their example. That we are all the body of Christ and that each one of use has a different part to do but that we all work together for the one and only goal. That the whole world should know of the the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

Traditional dancers. They are bringing the offering to the Lord thanking
Him for the sacrifice on the cross for us

Maybe that's it. They don't look at the denominations as one is better than the other. They are all one part of a bigger Body. The Body of the church. I think it also helps that they are not a prideful people. They are quite humble and that is one the hardest things for me to deal with. When you are raised from birth to have pride in all you do, well it takes a lot for God to knock some of us down a little more than others.

I can't tell you how much I feel that God has put us here at this time. Not just me, but everyone who is part of MFM. Pastor Rith feels the same. As I look back over the last five years and see what the Lord has done in my life to perpare me for this time it is amazing. And then I see what He has been doing here in Kampong Chanang for the last ten years.

And I end up here!