Next week the Khmer New Year holiday will be in full swing. Please join us in praying:
- For a safe, healthy and enjoyable holiday
- For disruptions, thefts, and road accidents to be minimal
- For peace and discernment for Christians as they navigate celebrating their culture without compromising their faith
- For the individuals in our programs to make wise choices and experience contentment and joy as a result
Next week the Khmer New Year holiday will be in full swing. Please join us in praying:
- For a safe, healthy and enjoyable holiday
- For disruptions, thefts, and road accidents to be minimal
- For peace and discernment for Christians as they navigate celebrating their culture without compromising their faith
- For the individuals in our programs to make wise choices and experience contentment and joy as a result
Team will be in the air shortly. Please pray for the team as they reach out to minister in Cambodia with us for the next week. Pray for health, strength, and endurance. Also flight connections and that their luggage arrives with them.
Please pray for Emily in Cambodia, she is dealing with a sinus infection.
Please pray with us for a young man with autism who often spends time at our Center. Our staff are kind and encouraging to him, but due to his limitations he often doesn't understand or know how to respond to the people around him.
Pray:
- That God's love would somehow reach his heart
- That he would have relief from seizures and epileptic symptoms
- That God would encourage his family and draw them to Him
Today and in the coming weeks we are seeking government approval of several important documents that affect our staff and upcoming projects. Please pray with us that the requirements we need to fulfill would be clearly and accurately communicated to us by the officials we speak with. Also pray that the government would give quick and complete approval to our documents!
Today and in the coming weeks we are seeking government approval of several important documents that affect our staff and upcoming projects. Please pray with us that the requirements we need to fulfill would be clearly and accurately communicated to us by the officials we speak with. Also pray that the government would give quick and complete approval to our documents!
Today we ask for your prayers for a young man in one of our programs struggling with mental illness and other issues. We pray that God gives our staff wisdom in dealing with him, and that he finds peace and wholeness.
Over the next few weeks Cambodians will be celebrating Chinese New Year with street processions, idol worship, gruesome rituals, and drunkeness. This brings an atmosphere of chaos and carelessness that results in many traffic accidents and other issues.
Please pray with us for peace and safety for our staff, their families, our community, and Cambodia as a whole.
Tomorrow is Valentine's Day here in Cambodia, and sadly what should be a benign celebration of love is interpreted as a day where rape and immorality are considered normal (you can read more about Valentine's Day rape culture at
Please pray with us that young people in Cambodia would not use this holiday as an opportunity for abuse or sin, but rather that God would reveal His love and His design for loving relationships.
Please be prayerful for IHSI/Sak Saum as we enter into a new season.
A local pastor's family would appreciate prayer for their adult daughter who is now in the final stages of cancer and as of yesterday is comatose. The daughter, who is a Christian, shared at a recent Christmas celebration that her prayer is that God will use her situation to somehow glorify Him. We echo this prayer as well as ask God to give her and her family peace and strength during this difficult time.
As anyone from a big family or tight-knit community knows, kids that play together often share not only toys but sicknesses! Recently, many of the little ones in Sak Saum nurseries have been coming down with fevers and colds, despite their mothers' and caregivers' best efforts.
Please join us in praying that:
- Each child who is under the weather gets well soon
- Those who are healthy, stay healthy
- The young mothers who can become overwhelmed or fearful would feel peace and grow in wisdom about how to handle their children's health concerns
Several teenagers from our church shared with us this week that their teachers in public school have been trying to discourage them from their Christian faith, treating them differently than other students and informally "quizzing" them about Buddhism in a hostile way.
Additionally, some of these same students face taunting and negativity from family members and neighbors when at home, leading them to feel that our Center is the only place that welcomes them.
Please join us in praying:
- That God would encourage them and be the lifter of their heads as they remain faithful to Him
- That they would show grace and kindness to their persecutors, overcoming evil with good
- That our staff would have wisdom as we counsel these young believers
- That those who feel a need to mock or discourage Christians in our community would receive revelation of God's love for them, and that they like Saul/Paul would be transformed into whole-hearted followers of Christ
During the first 2 days of Water Festival there were 22 deaths and 77+ injuries reported. This is sadly quite normal during Cambodian holidays, due to lack of infrastructure, drunk driving, and other factors.
Please join us in praying for the grieving families, and thanking God that all of our staff and loved ones are safe and well.
This week the Cambodian Water Festival will draw approximately 2 million people into the capital. There is increased risk for theft, violence, abuse of children, and mass panic during this event. It also will mark the first Water Festival held since a tragic stampede several years earlier in which many lives were lost.
Please join us in praying for safety and peace in the area, and for protection for those of our staff and program members who live and work in Phnom Penh.
In Cambodia there are many religions and cults vying for the hearts and minds of vulnerable people. Please join us in praying for IHSI leaders and staff, that we would have wisdom in combatting the deceptive tactics of the Enemy, and that those in our communities would trust in God and the Bible as the final authoritative Word of God.
Today please join us in praying for Jonny, the little son of one of the young mothers in our Sak Saum program. Jonny has what appears to be a recurrent lung infection and needs healing and rest. Also pray for his mother, that she would feel peace and not fear.
Today please join us in praying for Jonny, the little son of one of the young mothers in our Sak Saum program. Jonny has what appears to be a recurrent lung infection and needs healing and rest. Also pray for his mother, that she would feel peace and not fear.
This morning's church service was a time of sharing testimonies, a beautiful opportunity for the congregation to encourage one another and hear what God is doing in individual's lives. Afterwards, we had an altar call and two people responded: Pich, a young teenage boy who has been spending every spare moment he can at our Center, and Sopheak, a man who recently entered Sak Saum's Brother House program. What a great way to end a wonderful service!
Pray with us that Pich and Sopheak are blessed as they seek God, and that their newfound salvations would influence their families and community to draw even more to Him!
