Necessity

We use it without thinking. It's almost like the air we breathe or the electricity in our house, and if it were gone... our lives would drastically change. Water. Not only water, but clean water-- non-toxic, thirst-quenching, soul satisfying water. 

Through a specific water filtration system that our friends in Cambodia have developed, they are reaching hundreds and thousands of people by meeting the most physical of needs. What we take for granted, the Cambodians thirst for and they don't even know it. They don't know why they get sick or why they have chronic headaches, but the answer is as simple as the most necessary of substances: clean water.

What a beautiful picture! Water is providing the way for sharing the love of Christ and His message for mankind. Just as they don't realize why they get sick or why their water is unsatisfying physically, they don't realize why their lives as a whole are unsatisfying spiritually. They continue to feel empty; their spiritual attempts to find meaning in this world continue to make them feel dry and parched. They are "thirsty" and they don't know why. 

For as Jesus said to the Samaritan woman, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. The water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." - John 4:13-14

Prayer Requests:

1.) Pray that the Holy Spirit will continue to give the Cambodians a strong thirst for the gospel message.

2.) Pray for the physical needs of Cambodia and that we could be the true hands and feet of Christ as we try to meet them.

3.) Pray for our friends and that God would continue to give them the creativity to find ways to  impact their neighbors. 

4.) Pray that as Jesus Christ's body, sharing His message would be a necessity in our lives everyday. 

The 3 Minute Challenge

In one week our team will begin our physical journey to Cambodia. The spiritual journey for this trip, however, began much earlier.  We committed ourselves to pray for people that we had never met and that we don't truly understand and it has been eye-opening and even life changing. We're thrilled that you have decided to join us and are excited to see not only what impact your prayer life will have on Cambodia but the impact that it will have in you as well.  

Starting today, if you subscribe to getting our email updates, you will be getting short notes from us about what specific areas that we feel are in need of prayer from travel, to health, to responsive hearts in the people that God is going place in our paths. 

So, the challenge is this: 

Every time you receive an email update spend 3 minutes in prayer. Just 3 minutes bringing to the Lord these needs and praying for Cambodia. (Obviously you are not limited to 3 minutes but you have to start somewhere, right!) It will be hard at first but as we go along our hope is that you will be as moved by this exercise as we have been. 

Here are today's prayer request:

The Cambodian People: 

That God would continue to move in their hearts to allow them to see past their tradition and culture to seek truth and God's salvation plan. 

The Cambodian Church:

That our brothers and sisters would feel emboldened and impassioned by their faith and seek out ways to share with their family members and neighbors the joy of their salvation.