Hope Filled Communities

"Helping to create strong independent hope filled communities" is the CHO motto, and we have seen much evidence of that this week.

Today we went out to a village that is relatively new to working with CHO to do what was labelled as village outreach. The arrangements for school on a mat and church are quite similar and this was sort of a cross between the two. There is a church that has started meeting in this location and events like this will hopefully lead to it becoming a school on a mat location. This is one way that CHO is helping to improve as many rural areas as possible, by creating opportunities and catering for all aspects of life. The aim is to provide education and vocational training, advice alongside Christian teaching, worship and study. The practical and spiritual are completely together in everything that CHO is doing, it is impossible to separate the two. We have witnessed communities that are willing to keen to embrace both.

The whole team, except Tim, who was busy pastor training, took part in the village outreach. It was great to be together as we have often been doing separate tasks for much if the week.

To give you an idea of the importance of children here, there were approximately fifty this morning, forty more this afternoon with four or five adults in attendance. The numbers were similar at church on Sunday, with the adults outnumbered by the children by at least six to one. This is why education plays a massive part in the development of the region and the country and CHO is so dedicated to the children of Cambodia.

Matt.