Day One - teaching Acts...

We had a great time with this group of leaders today. It is our third time to be with them, so there is a familiarity. There were 54 present today - and they represented 12 different provinces across Cambodia. Most of these are rural leaders as will be evidenced by my story a little later on.

We aked them to share about what God was doing in their lives, and two gave testimonies of God's grace and how He rescued them, giving them new life in Christ.

Teaching the book of Acts will be a life-changing investment in these leaders lives. It is relevant, and instructive to the situations they are facing as the emerging church in a culture of Buddhism.

We intentionally built some time in each lesson for our students to break up into small groups and pray and discuss the implications of each lesson. It was evident that they were really enjoying that time, and I think it will help them connect with each other better.

We made it through five of twenty lessons today. Tomorrow will be challenging, but promises to be a great time.

The funniest thing that happened today is that at the end of our time, Nivath Nhem, the Cambodian Baptist Convention President, went up and looked like he was going to make a couple of announcements. Well, he stepped over to the white board and drew a picture. I was trying to figure it out, when Jeff leaned over and told me - ""it's a toilet". OK, I'm a little slow. Evidently Nivath had to give our rural pastors a lesson in " how to flush a western style toilet" . It was complete with discussion and took about 5 minutes.

Just another reminder that we aren't in the US anymore.

Hopefully pictures tomorrow, I'm running into some technical difficulties with USB ports here.

Keep praying for us - your prayers are making a difference - pray especially for BuNa, our primary translator.

David & Jeff