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Merry Christmas to all! From our family to yours.

I enjoy life so much! Thankyou GOD!

  Khmer Bible Soft & worship songs from Visal are free for download.   I have tried the software. I am happening to have Limon fonts in all of my computers.   Here is my input.  The blog owners, Visal and Sam Oeun, though did not give reference about the Bible Soft, but give a great testimony. When you install the software, you will see visal’s email  in the contact. Visal is an educated person, and he is working with various Christian NGOs and organizations (There are more than 100 Christian NGOs in Cambodia). I will try to contact him and my Cambodia partner, just to learn more about him and the product.   Yes, the Software is legit, I heard of the development a while ago and they are developing for mobil phone as well.  A few Christian NGOs or missionary are working in that area.   We are blessed that they give out for free. I have people who asked me for such work on web base with searchable feature.  It could be done with Khmer Unicode and lemon or ABC fonts.   Now you could copy from that program to your Ms word or Publisher without typing the whole Bible.  This software used Limon font which is very popular in Cambodia. We in the States mostly used Khet Brother font ---Khet  is dying (developer no longer update his work). I hire a person to type all Hymn and Khmer holy songs into PowerPoint and only a few Cambodian leaders in Cambodia used them – they want it in Limon, rather Khet.   The Khmer Bible Soft used our old Khmer bible which is great—many people used it. Sompon Metrey Tmey translation gaining a good ground too in Cambodia. Bible society of Cambodia  have both versions available.   I wish the Khmer Soft have more concordance and other resources with that….but this is a great beginning. We praised God for such resources available for our Khmer community.  I applaus their work and praise God with them…Amen.   Try the worship songs....sound great and they are free to download.   Khmer Bibel Soft: http://visal-info.blogspot.com/2008/09/download_16.html   Free Limon font http://www.khmertutorials.com/download/page.asp?categoryid=1&category_name=Free%20Khmer%20Font         Limon Keyboard layout Key For Limon Fonts         Other resources:   Society for better book in Cambodia  Fonts and Keyboards  DictionariesTranslation Tools Software in Khmer  Khmer Spelling Checkers Sorters and Converters Khmer Software Initiative  Khmer Unicode  Khmer Email Application  Khmer Web Browser

Next week is the date fo the Youth Camp #13 of EFC Youth Commission (now changed to EFC-KEY=EFC-Kingdom Equip Youth). I am very thrill and excited to be around the camp again. The theme for this year is Mission For Life មានជីវិត មានបេសកកម្ម. It's all about the mission of the Lord in Matt 28:19 "Therefore go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." We are the generation who stand on our ground and answer for the calling of God. God called us to go to our nation and preach the gospel. That's the greatest mission of all for our lives is to bring the good news of Jesus and the free salvation to those who need. We want to equip our youth in Cambodia about the mission. If we talk about the mission, we have not seen Cambodian send as missionary to any nations, yet for our nation we have to do our best and working very hard to lead them into Christ's love. This mission is for all the Christian in the entire world. God called us to do this. Cambodia! is not that big compare to any other nations around. Why it take so long to spread the gospel of Jesus in Cambodia? Now it's time for us to tell these young ages to do the mission for their homeland and for the village, and provinces. Please pray for this year camp will be the blessing and raise up many mission team for Cambodia. Pisit

I would like to share some verses form the book of James, of which helps me remember who I was and also keeps me in check.      When I remember that is. lol! James (1:19-25)   Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. This is a reminder for us not to forget who we were and who we are now, and continue to walk faithfully in the word till the end.  

We have showed our responsibility by casting our vote for a person we can believe in that he will lead our country and the free world.  It truely is a historical event in this election ever that will shape our nation and remind us and our children in this political campaign.Let us put ourselves to rest in the hand of God which helps our new president the wisdom and knowledge to lead this free world respectively.  Thus, let us joint our heart and mind in prayer with Billy Graham. Billy Graham's Prayer for Our Nation THIS MAN SURE HAS A GOOD VIEW OF WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR COUNTRY! 'Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance.  We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done.  We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.  We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.  We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem.  We have abused power and called it politics.  We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.  We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.  We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.  Search us, OhGod, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and Set us free.Amen!' Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, 'The Rest of the Story,' and received a larger response to this program than any other hehas ever aired. With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called 'One nation under God.'  Think about this: If you forward this prayer to everyone on your e-mail list, in less than 30 days it would be heard by the world.  (It's worth a try!)   "One Nation Under God." 

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Now I have a complete Khmer Bible in Microsoft Word in Khek font and also in Limon font. I can send through e-mail free upon request. The purpose for this is to help you to be able to copy and paste the verses you need without typing the whole text. My e-mail address is samith@thepoint.cc Blessings,  

Continue from Blind Man Asked for Help... Muhammad:  After Muhammad conquered Mecca, some of the remaining free people of Arabia joined together in an attempt to defeat him.  Leading on his white mule, Muhammad marched out against them with a huge army of 12,000 men.  However, the enemy made a suprise ambush against them in the morning twilight, and Muhammad's soldiers broke rank and fled in terror.  Muhammad withdrew to the right and shouted, "Where you going, men?  come to me.  I am God's apostle.  I am Muhammad the son of Abdullah."  A few stayed with him, but most kept running.  Muhammad asked a man with a "powerful voice" who was standing by to call out for the people.  One hundred fighters eventually came back to stand with him.  Ultimately the huge Muslim army defeated their enemy that day.  This is known as the Battle of Hunayn. The point is that Muhammad demanded that his followers protected him. Jesus:  While he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived.  With him was a large crowd with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests and the elders of the people...Then the men stepped forward, seized Jesus and arrested him.  With that, one of Jesus' companions reached for his sword, drew it out and struck the servant of the high priest,"  Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.  Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?  But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way?"...Then all the disciples deserted him and fled.  -Mathew 26:47, 50-54, 56

What do you think about the character Mrs. Carmody?  Here's a summary:Mrs. Carmody She is a religious woman with the extreme belief in a bloodthirsty God; Mrs. Carmody is driven insane by the scenario and eventually declares that a human sacrifice must be made to rid the world of the mist. She is shot and killed by Ollie shortly before the escape attempt. Mrs. Carmody was initially perceived by everyone involved as borderline insane, but achieves a growing congregation as the story progresses. Perhaps the most benign of the terms used to describe her was "Too Old Testament." At one point, she accuses someone of stealing food, yet at the same time is sipping out of a likely non-purchased pint of milk.I just hope we don't turn out like her! 

Cambodian New Life Church 2922 Washington Dr.Houston, TX 77038   Cambodian New Life Church is almost completed her new building. The house of God needs your prayer and donation for chairs. If anyone wants to donate, please send check to the above address.   May God bless everyone.   Chamnan    

Khmer bible in limon and Khek fonts are now available for download. The idea is that you don’t have to type them. Thanks to pastor Samith and pastor Thearit for converting them.   I have been told that in Unicode is now available too. We will add them, if we have them and have permission.   There are computer programs in this download too, just look for computer images.   http://www.khmerchristian.com/download_resources/   Enjoy!!!

I guess this is Mr. Hean’s sneak preview of CD #3? Or he just does it for fun? Created his own music too...gifted!   http://www.cambodianchristian.com/home/public/music/song/id_1198/   His profile: http://www.cambodianchristian.com/home/Hean   His production, ministry and bio http://www.cambodiangospelmusic.com/

Have gone through some old photos today and  I have found some of the pictures, perhaps some of you may be recognise someone? Link below http://www.cambodianchristian.com/home/user/kimsaheng/gallery

For any members that desire to download any of the sermons here, the capability is not yet set up.However, you can still do it by having The_arrow send the file to your email address. Contact The_arrow  (not sermon_uploader).These mp3 files are an excellent tool for putting on to cds for older people who are stuck at home and bored and need to hear the Word of God.They are great to have in one's ipod for walking around the mall or the park or anywhere else !!

I just returned from Cambodia where I spent 3 months at the Cambodian Christian Arts Ministry School in Phnom Penh. It is a selapat training school--performing arts and visual arts. My husband and I want a Khmer language teacher. We want to prepare to live at the CCAMS. Is there anyone who has contacts in Knoxville, Tennessee, especially any Khmer church here?

As you know about the worship team retreat this year which I have mentioned to you in the last blog. Well, we finally did it and we have such a great time together as the worship team from the 6th-8th of March at Picnic, Tangil resort.  This year we have 53 people come together in one place and do the retreat. Among these 53 people, there are 5 from NLF Phnom Penh Thmey and one from NLF-Kraing Thnong. If we all come that would be more than 60 people altogether. We praise God for the enough money to runs this event.  The program this year is much more interesting than the previous years that we have done the retreat for the worship team. The first day when we arrived, Ps. Jesse took over the whole morning session about Worship team as a leader and Bing excellence. We had a group discussion in the morning and everyone really participate on this discussion. After the discussion each team present their input and then there are some debate took place with questions and answer from each team. One by one everyone team get to present their ideas and value. To me it seems like this is good thing for them to do that.  After the whole morning has passed come with the lunch time. But my team don’t want to stop debating and answering the questions they still want to do some more. So then we told them that in the evening they can continue with what they want to do in the morning. Lunch is ready! We are altogether help to set up for the lunch and everyone very enjoyed the lunch and the fellowship among their friend and their new friend. After lunch some of the guys help to clean up and some of the guys do the dishes according to the schedule to wash and do the dishes. What a great morning.  We took a break and we come back around 2:30PM to participate wit the activities. This year I have put together 2 games with were involve with 2 teams. The first game we play called: Mind Field! It was a game that required team effort. After the first round finished they stop for 5 minute to find the strategy and discussion on how to do this activity better and using team effort. We’ve done the first game with lots of fun and laughing and team effort. After the Mind Field game done we went outside and play another game. This game is much more fun than the first one. I called this one is Water Balloon Volleyball. We have 2 teams again compete with each other but this time we play with water balloon. O man! This is a fun game ever for the day.  After the game is over we have sometime just to do some free game for anyone interesting in playing anything they want among their team or group game. We play Freeze tag, Hid and seek game and much more. Then dinner is ready! After dinner Ps. Jesse continued of what he suppose to do and then he talking about intimacy with God and we have a great time in the presence of God that night! After the lesson everyone wanted to play Capture the Flag but the weather wasn’t good for us to play. It drizzling and rain and stop and rain, so we decide to go to bed but there are some people when to play Guest Hid and Seek!  The next morning we spend sometime reading and pray and do self devotion with God in the morning but some of the guys slept in because they play too much at night! We had a very good breakfast and we thank God for the cook this year they have done a great job. After breakfast we did group photos and Ps. Jesse and some of the guys have to come back to Phnom Penh. After we clean up and small break I start with some lesson about the vision of the church and the visions and goals for worship team. We talk through and we discuss the matter together and we had a good lesson in the morning. After the visions and goals discussion be took a break then we come back with a lesson: Vital Element of Praise. We went through the Bible together and find out the vital element of praise. Now I’m getting tired and so does everyone! So we take a break and get ready for lunch. Whose! What a day!  In the afternoon we had another activity going on after that we went out to swim. After the hot days we really enjoy the water. At night time I share with them about the Forgiveness and Reconciliation. Seem to be very interesting for this guy after we finish the lesson we pray for one another and I gave the opportunity to those who didn’t get thing right with their friend to do some reconciliation with one another. Perfect! God is in the midst of us and we had a forgiven night! After the session we play some more game! Whose! Another game! This called Capture the Flag! Everyone really participate in this game and we play until 1:30AM. Then we went to bed.  The last day is here finally and we had so much to learn and we had lot of fun too. Start off with NLF-Phnom Penh Thmey Team leading praise and worship and we can see the spirit of worship is there. After the worship I continued with another lesson about praise and worship. We finished up and then after lunch we packed up and ready to leave!  From years to years we end up with amazing memory in each of the retreat that we have done together. I thanked God for his grace over my team. I love my worship Team. They are my joy and my pride. Without them I can’t bring the spirit of worship and unity there. We planned to have another year of the retreat in March 5-7, 2009. Can’t wait to be that time.

Love; How much is one willing to sacrifice in order obtain or sustain love? Love varies form person to person, such as fame, fortune, family, flesh, and so on, depending on that persons individual view. If one is willing to sacrifice themselves fore the things of this world, how much are we will to sacrifice for our FATHER, LORD, and GOD? This is a touchy subject. I understand that it is hard to reply to questions like these, so I will start and try to break the ice. I've been staying in Jacksonville for about 3 month with minimum financial support so that I can gain strength in faith and in spirit. Even though the job that I had up north wasn't all that great but still, I chose to give it up in order to be closer to our FATHER. If anyone else like to share, please feel free to do so. Would love to hear about it.

I have heard of Cambodian Christian in New Zealand, but have never met one in person.  Today I have found a church with some Cambodian members and I decided to write them. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Bill and Rita, I have visited your website http://www.papbap.org.nz/cambodian.htm , and discovered that there are some Cambodians in your congregation.I really appreciate your church and give glory to God for reaching out to Cambodians in your community. We have started a Cambodian Christian community website a few year back and now is a social network. Many songs, sermons, bible readings, videos and so on are available online in Khmer.  Please inform our Cambodian Christian brothers and sister of this resource. God bless,Amra P.  Team leader of www.cambodianchristian.com 

I put this Q in the poll and I feel like post it again to see how much you can come up with your thoughts.  Suppose you have 10 minutes in heaven with God, what are some daunting questions you would want to ask God?  And, how do you want God to answer you.  I know this is critical, but you must think in God's position.  Hope to hear from all of you