Message from Bill Hale
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January 2009
Dear Friends,
In March of 2002, I took my first trip to Cambodia to encourage Pastor Chheng Nuon and the Church of Mercy. During our week-long stay, the Lord moved me for Cambodia in a profound way and gave me a heart for the Khmer people. I continued to visit and help the Cambodian work over the next few years. After my third trip in 2005, the Lord began leading me to move to Cambodia to work as a helper to Pastor Chheng and the church planting mission.
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My wife and I arrived on the mission field in January of 2007, and Katherine, our first child, arrived ten months later. We live in a small farming village called Prek Ambel. It is about an hour south of the capital city of Phnom Penh, a city of 1.3 million people. We work daily with the Prek Ambel Training Center (PATC), a school Chheng started three years ago for the training of biblically-sound Christians and future church leaders. The school has four areas of study: Biblical studies, Musical studies, EFL – English Language studies, and Computer Technology. My wife and I both teach classes in the PATC:
Bill
Systematic Theology
The 1689 London Confession
Computer Technology levels 1-4
Guitar levels 1-3
Jennifer
EFL - English levels 1-4
Additionally, I assist Pastor Chheng in overseeing the day to day PATC operations and our long- and short-term church planting strategy.
As we work with the PATC, we are continually reminded of the profound impact it could have on the future church throughout Cambodia. After being here for two years, we continue to sense the Lord’s leadership in our living and working in Cambodia. We are convinced the Lord has opened a door for effective ministry in an area of the world which lives in spiritual darkness. We are so thankful to be a part of this work, and desire to make the most of this time, for “behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Cor. 2:6). Please pray and ask God to help us as we seek to glorify Him and train His people in righteousness!
May God bless you and may He keep you,
Bill Hale
For more information go to: www.thechurchofmercy.org.
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Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
I John 3:1-3
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