In 2012, my wife and I planned to take a three-week vacation to spend time with our families and travel for our own pleasure in Cambodia. But finally we decided to participate in providing mobile medical ministries and water wells with support from our Eliot Cambodians and other Buddhist friends in the Lowell area. During our trip to Cambodia in November, I also performed baptisms in a remote church in Battambong Province.
In the pictures, my wife Saneth is helping with a mobile clinic in a remote village in Kompong Cham Province, a woman is being baptized in a worship service at a remote church, and children are praying at a worship service in Battambong Province.
For the medical ministry, we served two rounds for each clinic and there were about 1,600 people who came to receive treatment from our doctor. We witnessed the Lord’s blessings pouring upon those suffering people. For example, a woman, who had not been able to sleep or talk and had not taken care of her six children for many months became a nourishing mother again. During our second round clinic in Battambong province, she was carried in by a sister as we were ready to leave. Her face looked very pale like a dead person. Her eyes sometimes moved slowly. I asked the doctor to treat her, and he gave her a one-month supply of medicine. The doctor told me that she had severe mental illness.
After we left that place, the woman’s face was in mind my mind all the time. Later, after we finished a second round at other places, we came back to Phnom Penh city. My mind still carried the woman’s face, the dead and pale face. I prayed to God, “God, I do enough and have enough. Please let me have peace.”
During my vacation/missionary trip in Cambodian, I could not get the woman’s health condition out of mind. I then called a local pastor asking him to visit her and let me know about her condition. The pastor did visit her, even though she is not a Christian. He told me that she now could talk and sleep and was making food for her children again. After hearing this good news, I thanked God for the miracle of healing the woman and sparing her children. I also called the doctor to tell him about the woman’s condition.
When I came back home after the trip, I called the pastor to find out how the woman was doing. He said she had run out of medicine, and she was not talking or and sleeping much. It was about two weeks, not a month yet, and I found out that she had taken twice the amount of medicine she should have taken; therefore, it ran out so quickly.
When I heard about the woman’s situation, I sent money to Ms. Bopha, Rin Chan’s fiancée. (Rin is a newly baptized member of Eliot Church.) I asked her to buy a cell phone for the woman’s family. Now, the woman’s sister can contact the doctor directly, and the doctor has sent more medicine to her at Ms. Bopha’s request. Recently, I talked with the woman and her sister on the phone, and they thanked God for the medical ministry. They have started attending church weekly with their children!
Please remember this woman’s family and other suffering people in your prayer.