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Twelfth Cambodia Short-term Missions Team
The team will be going to Cambodia April 7-17. At present there are 19 team members, including one doctor, several nurses and other brothers and sisters. Thank God for giving us members whose different spiritual gifts work together in service. But, at this time we have no dentist. Please pray for this. Also, please be in prayer for physical and emotional strength for team leader Rev. Polly Ho and each team member. May each one be a holy vessel suited for the Lord's use.

Missionaries 
Please pray for our missionaries so that they can graspthe local language quickly, and so be able to communicate better with church leaders and lay people, missionaries Rev. Paula Guazon, Rev. and Mrs Margin and seminary intern Ms. Rebecca Chung must find time for language lessons every day. Please pray that as they are pastoring the church at the same time, that they can still focus on language study. Pray that God will grant them special ability.

Light and Life Bible Training Centre is now in the first school term of this year with courses in Old Testament Survey and discipleship training taught by FMCNA missionary to Taiwan, Dr. Becca. Please pray for her teaching, the accuracy of the translators, and for the 12 students to be able to absorb all the training and for their spiritual lives to be renewed.

The united baptismal service will be in April. Almost 100 believers are preparing to be baptized in a covenant with the Lord. Please pray for those who will be baptized. May they continue to press forward spiritually and be salt and light for the Lord in Cambodia.

Cambodia Child Care Ministry is currently applying to the Cambodian government for registration as a non governmental organisation (NGO). However, the government official responsible for this has been on vacation outside Cambodia, resulting in delay for the application process. We have not yet been registered. Please pray for this. If we can register the Cambodia Child Care Ministry identity as an NGO, then it will not be necessary later to apply to local governments for permits for expansion of our work, such as new churches, the Bible Training Centre and short-term medical missions teams.

Conditions in the capitol city of Phnom Penh: The dirt road outside our home in the capitol turns into a river of mud with every heavy rain. As sister Rebecca Chung wades through the water to go downtown, even some of the major thoroughfares may be flooded. Some days ago she discovered a man wrapped in a blanket lying under a large tree, with a plastic rice sack used for a sunshade. A woman companion was next to him. His hands and feet were ulcerated and he was thin and weak. sister Chung went back home to get some disinfectant and pain medicine, some oral re-hydration salts that someone else had left with her, and two litres of water. She and brother Kung Ty went back together to look after the man. She guesses that the man was suffering from epilepsy. Brother Kung Ty had seen the man before. He and his wife were living on the streets, and this time they were both down sick! In this unfortunate country, those with long term illnesses can only travel this kind of road!