January, 2025
Dear prayer and mission co-workers,
Greetings in the precious Name of the Lord.
Every Lord’s Day, after the morning Gospel Church service, five to six teachers from the Gospel Church go to the temporary worship place to have a children’s Lord’s Day service. There is a temporary worship place made with a tin roof (to block the rain and sun) on the empty lot of the Life Water Church in Dangdong Village. This service is pictured above. Since the time when COVID-19 was spreading around the world, we have been teaching the Word of God, singing praise songs, and having prayer with the children of the village at this location. Our prayer and hope is that the Living Water Church will be built here in the future and that God’s servants will come and serve the church, and children will be saved and trained, by the grace of God.
Without exception, as each year passes, the children of the village leave the church when they move up to the next grade. This village is so underdeveloped that there is no place for the children to receive education. So, after the church is built, we can open a kindergarten and an after-school supplementary class like we have at the Gospel Church, to spread the gospel and continue the Lord’s Day services.
By the grace of the Lord, the Gospel Kindergarten in Kandal District has been divided into two classes for 5-year-olds and 4-year-olds, since November of last year. All six kindergarten teachers grew up in the Word at the Lord’s Day school of the Gospel Church. Thanks to your support over the years, four of them have graduated from college, and this year, two teachers from the Gospel Kindergarten are studying at college. Four college students have also received scholarships from the church and now serve at the Gospel Kindergarten in the morning. They are thankful to God for this opportunity and grace to serve. In the afternoon, they open three after-school supplementary classes to teach English. Although the classes bring in a small amount of money, it provides part-time jobs for the teachers. Please pray that the members of Gospel Church and the children of Living Water Church will be established in their faith.
Our Gospel Church has decided on prayer topics for the year 2025, and is praying about these topics during the Lord’s Day worship and Wednesday prayer meetings. The topics are as follows:
Prayer Topics and Goals for the Gospel Church
- Let us serve God with obedience, humility, gratitude, and joy.
- May God revive the Sunday 8 o’clock children’s service and the 10 o’clock adult service through the power of His Word.
- Pray for and evangelize non-believing families, so that we can be saved and we can worship together this year and revive our church.
- Let the saints be united and live in harmony and serve the Lord with one heart.
- Give tithes and thanksgiving offerings with all our heart.
Prayer Topics and Goals for Living Water Church
- Let the Sunday afternoon children’s service be held joyfully and with thanksgiving.
- May God give, to the teachers who serve, the strength and faith to handle their duties and may He bless their studies and their future.
- Let the faith of the Living Water children grow spiritually, so that they do not leave the Lord. May they become worshipers and volunteers with the Living Water Church in the future.
- May God give the people the resources so that the Living Water Church can be established.
- May God’s Spirit be evident so that children from distant neighboring villages will come and worship together this year.
We both pray that you will continue to walk with the Lord in the New Year. And may you be blessed so that the Lord’s grace will overflow both in spirit and body.
In Christ,
Stephen and Lydia CHOI