These Boys definately need our prayers

As many know I coached a soccer team this last season. The boys on the team range from ages 15- 18 years old. I offered to continue coaching once a week during the off season but many that are on and not on my team want to play soccer for money, because gambling here is a big deal, a huge stronghold. So I still check in with them from time to time. Yesterday one of the boys called me and said that he has a difficult heart and needs to talk with me about it. So I went to meet him and ended up meeting many of my boys along the way. I discovered many things during that time. One named Money, his girlfriend went to live in a different city so he tried to kill himself by drinking poison. I don’t know how serious he was with wanting to die or if he just wanted attention. Then another boy named Pier Rayick got angry with his mom and decided to leave and go to the border and wash cars. With him I am afraid that he will get into trouble, he some times is not there mentally and makes bad choices when pressured. Then a boy named Dawlei was joking with one of his friends and it ended up turning into a fight. Dawlei started to walk away and the boy had a wrench and hit him in the back of the head. This was at school, where he got a wrench, I have no idea. Dawlei got 6 stitches. Yesterday I got to talk to him about his part in it and about retaliation. He also let me pray for him. Things are happening to these boys that the Lord placed in my life and that I’ve had the privilege to disciple. Please lift these boys up in your prayer times.

Worship is what you make of it.

Okay so the other day we had our community meeting and we had invited different churches to help with the worship. Let’s just say that the boys were a bit nervous and had never played together. Also in Cambodia they have never really learned about beats. It kind of reminds me of the movie “The Jerk” where Steve Martin is born into a black family and he cannot clap on beat.
So anyways they started to sing and when Khmer play the keyboard they put it on trumpet sounds, so the song is being played at extremely high notes. I looked around at the foreigners and saw the looks on their faces. I thought if my brother Matt was here, who is a musician he would be cringing in the back. Then they started to sing “I will sing of your love forever” and I belted it out with such joy because in the midst of off beat, horrible sounds and singing, it didn’t matter because I still wanted to worship our loving and amazing God, and I wanted to sing of His love forever.

Hip Hop

We have a hip hop dance class at our youth center so recently I joined the beginners class. And I am loving it. I have been making new relationships with many young Khmer boys and girls. Here are some pictures of a different hip hop class, not mine.