Happy 4th of July! It was quite unusual celebrating America’s Independence this year in the USA!

This is a very busy but exciting month for the ministry in Pursat. Will you please bring these five things to the Lord in prayer over this month of July?
1. Some have asked about Kone. He has not yet decided to follow Christ but continues to attend the teaching times on Thursdays and Sundays. He is counting the cost of following Christ. Please pray for this man to confess Christ before men.
2. Forrest and Matt Hancock (summer BJU intern) are taking a survey trip this week (July 5-10) to the areas near the Thai border that we have evangelized in the past. They hope to be able to water the Gospel seeds that we planted in previous years. They also plan to connect with some believers there to encourage them in the faith. Please pray for this trip.
3. On July 11, Forrest and Matt will begin a weekly teen Bible study in our village of Khbal Hong, similar to what we did last year. July, August, and September is the “summer vacation” time in Cambodia. Please pray for the Lord to bless this weekly outreach time with spiritual fruit.
4. From July 14-21, the McPhails will be hosting the Southeast Asia Team from BJU. They have a very full week scheduled with them. The believers in Preiy Nyee and Anlong Vul will be sharing testimonies and challenges with the men on the team and vice versa. Pray for Forrest as he does a lot of translating back and forth. Pray for the American believers and the Cambodian believers to have mutual encouragement and fellowship around the things of Christ.
5. Last of all, please pray for us here in America as we minister in SC in our sending church as well prepare for our furlough meetings in the South during the month of August.

May the Lord richly bless your “labor of love” in prayer for our team this month.

Praying for the net to fill in Pursat in our absence,

Chris, Heidi, Rachel, Isaac, and Susanna

Dear Family and Friends,

I just sent out a prayer letter last week but I wanted to mention one special prayer request to bring before the throne of grace this week.

It appears that God is starting to move in a special way down in Anlong Vul, the village where Ming Khom lives and where we have done extensive evangelism over the past two years. Another older lady has joined Ming Khom in the church. Also, a middle-age man, whom Forrest and I have both witnessed to over the past year, seems to be near conversion. I would like to ask you to pray earnestly for Kone this week. He told Forrest that he will decide whether or not to follow Christ this week. His Buddhist family has given him “permission” to believe and become a Christian if he wants. His conversion would be significant as he will be the first man to believe in AV!

I will keep you posted about this request. Thanks for your prayers for Kone.

Until the net is full,

Chris

Greetings from Clemson, SC! We are currently at our first furlough meeting, a missions conference, with our sending church, University Baptist. We have been in the States for four weeks now and have gotten used to being Americans again! The culture shock only lasted for a couple of weeks. It has been great to see so many of you already and we will be looking forward to seeing more of you in Ohio, Michigan, and West Virginia in the coming weeks. We would like to ask you to “hold the ropes” for the following requests over the next few weeks:

1. Please pray for our travels up North during the month of April and May and for the Lord to be glorified and God’s people to have joy as they hear of God’s doings in Pursat.
2. Please pray for a unique opportunity to meet some Khmai-Americans in Virginia next week (April 2). They are related to some of our friends in Pursat. Some of them are believers, but many are not. Many of them only speak Khmai though they have been in the States for more than 20 years.
3. Please pray for our teammates who are in Bangkok awaiting the birth of their baby girl. Jennifer is due March 29 so it could be any day now.
4. Please pray for the church in Preiy Nyee during the McPhails absence. Thi will be doing most of the teaching and his mother, Janna, will be teaching Ming Khom over the next few weeks.

Until the net is full,

Chris for the Seawrights

Greetings from the United States of America! We left Cambodia on February 21 and after a few days of traveling arrived in the States on February 26. When we left Southeast Asia, it was 90 degrees. When we arrived at the Chicago O’Hare airport there was 6 inches of snow and it was 30 degrees! It was the first time our kids had seen snow (or can remember snow, in Rachel’s case)!

The jet lag has been harder than we remember and we are definitely having some reverse culture shock but things are getting more and more normal each day. We praise the Lord for good health overall in this transition time. We are now settling into our new home (with Heidi’s parents) in Greenville, SC. Her family has been very helpful to us during this time of adjustment. They have especially enjoyed our funny questions that show we have been in another world for four years :-).

Thanks to all who prayed for us in our travels from Pursat to Greenville. We are looking forward to seeing each of you soon. We start our furlough meetings in three weeks.

Until the net is full,

Chris

Praise the Lord for the safe arrival of our teammates, the McPhails, this past week. We have been helping them get settled in and just had a good first weekend with them in the churches. Everyone is glad to have them back–not just us adults but also our kids!

The first wedding in the Preiy Nyee church is only two weeks away. This will be our family’s last big event before we leave for our first furlough on February 21. This wedding is going to be a huge event in the life of the church and the community. Many of the families in the church are already experiencing increased persecution and temptation. This wedding will, in many ways, be a test to see how much of our Biblical teaching they understand and are willing to obey.

In this update, I want to limit our prayer requests to one family in the Preiy Nyee church: Aun, his wife Peul, and their children. Their daughter, Prum, is the one getting married on February 4. Over the past couple of weeks, this family has been experiencing intense verbal persecution from their neighbors and others in the community because they are refusing to serve alcohol at the wedding reception. Most of Aun’s work friends have been pressuring him to drink and last week he gave in and got drunk a few times. Satan is trying to destroy his testimony before this wedding. He has repented of his sin but is still struggling to do what is right. He wants to please everyone, but this is impossible. This is a true test of his faith in Christ. Both the church people and the members of our team have promised to pray for he and his family every day until the wedding is over. Will you also pray for Aun and his family over the next two weeks?

Thanks for your prayers.

Until the net is full,

Chris