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OLYMPIA PRESBYTERY ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON CAMBODIAN MINISTRY/MENTOR
Rev. Irvin Porter– Jay Misenheimer,CPA- Rev. Heather James- Elder Arlen Davison- Rev. Lynn Longfield- Rev. Dr. John Haberlin

Nov. 2008  Vol. No. IV
Happy Thanksgiving Friends and Families
We cannot Thank God enough for the friends, families and churches that are a blessing to the Cambodian Ministry.  Personally, our families have been very blessed through your love and support. Thanks God for the continuing leadership of the presbytery, our host church, and others churches that come along side with us in this partnership to allow God work through us to be a blessing to others. May his light continue to shine brighter in all of our broken communities as we move toward the advance season and the anticipation of the celebration of the birth of our Savior-Jesus Christ.
Thanks to the Cambodian Presbytery Advisory Committee and the Cambodian Steering Committee who works very hard to provide leadership and financial support to sustain our presbytery mission. The Cambodian leadership team and the congregation has been nurtured through your ongoing strategy for mission and very excited about what God is leading us into a new phase for this ministry. Therefore, we must continue to be faithful to him who is the ultimate source of our strength and hope. We trust that our works will continue to glorify his name because he is our provider. May we have
the courage to continue our service by sharing his unconditional love with others.

I thank God bringing me and leading to meeting and making new friends every day. The men Bible
Study groups have been blessings to all of us. There are three groups that gather to share our
concerns and to study his Word here at the Cambodian Presbyterian Ministry every Wednesday at
6:00 pm; some of us join the Presbyterian Church of Puyallup men's study on Thursday at 7:00am and third one is on Saturday at 7:00am near by my rental resident where my neighbors Randy and his wife Jane who serves as a Radio Broadcaster-the Good News of Christ in Taiwan. Please come and join us at any of this site.

We are so blessed with the connection of Elder Arlen Davison who introduced me to Major Jay Misenheimer and his wife Karen. He has been our First Cambodian Presbyterian Ministry Financial Consultant-a State of Washington CPA. Major Blessing to us! I am getting a good lesson on financial responsibility and will help to train our people to take ownership of this important task. He donated his
valuable time and resource to assist us-including the soft ware which is to be kept at the church. We appreciate our host church for the gifts of foods and warm clothes for our needy families. They are so bless with prayer of Thanksgiving!

Our meeting with the neighborhood Advisory Council went well. We met several city employees and including a Tacoma, Police Chief. Our elder had a good conversation with the Chief of Police regarding our young people, issue on crime and gangs in our area. I am blessing to meet with the Chief this morning at the Police Department with the invitation of the department Chaplain to join in at the first Thanksgiving Breakfast Prayer. We hope that this will become a tradition of Thanksgiving to God and the promotion of his Kingdom.

Thanks to First Presbyterian Church and the Presbytery's offering to support its mission project. Our thanks to Pierce County Chaplain for a donation of a conference table, the Tacoma City layman prayer group for some chairs and elder David Corner for bookshelf and some office chairs to Cambodian Ministry.

Some important meetings and networking with our Cambodian Community. Elder Mak and I visited a Cambodian electronic repair shop on McKinley Ave.  I also met with the following people: Nyssayodome and Marie who works for the Tacoma Community House, Mr. Kravanh and two of his colleagues who will partner with us on the Asian Water Festival 09. I also visited Michelle who directs the Senior House three blocks from the church. She welcomes some of our elders to be in her group for fellowship and friendship. We also attend a wonderful breakfast at the Hilltop Peace Community with our EP’s invitation to learn more about their program reaching out to low-income students and their parents. We had a wonderful time at Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church sharing our story on how
God delivered us from the Killing Fields to the US. I will visit Pastor Brian North’s mission committee mid of December and Pastor Jefferey’s congregation sometime in January to learn more about his church planting process. I spoke with Rev. John Schmick and Rev. Mark White. Both of them are
working on supporting Cambodian Mission this next year. Thank be to God for his provision may other churches come along side as well. Please continue to pray for the matching fund so that we can apply for the GA mission grant. We thanks churches and individual donors who pledge to support our presbytery mission project. Thanks to elder Davison, Dr. John Haberlin and Jay Misenheimer who met with me prior to our last Presbytery meeting to pray and to strategize our goal for Christ’s mission with a recommendation from the Advisory Committee on Cambodian Ministry follow-up. Pray for Presbytery Council this coming December 2nd and the Presbytery meeting that will meet with the Cambodian Ministry Advisors to discuss its future. May God continue to lead us in those meetings.
May God bless us and his church,
Sahara Chea
Your ministry Partner
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