The Advent of Love - Cambodia

I love Cambodia. The people ... the country ... I love Cambodia! Plain and simple. So I was excited to return as part of the team to put on a conference for the leadership team and the families of World Relief Cambodia, which are majority Cambodian.

After spending the first few days visiting in rural provinces where World Relief is doing great work, we headed to the Koh Kong province in the Cambodia/Thailand border on the Gulf of Thailand to hold the retreat. (More on the 6 hour bus trip another time!)


This leadership conference allowed us to teach, minister to, pray with and genuinely love and serve the workers and their families. The group included about 120 people and the theme was The Father's Love from 1 John 3:1-3.



There were main sessions in the morning with breakouts for small groups and great, personal discussion.


Worship and prayer times.



While all that was going on, we provided youth and the children's programming with the same theme.



And then in afternoons, we had breakout sessions with everything ranging from mani/pedi pampering times, jewelry-making and legos for kids to How to Lead a Bible Studay, Christian Men's Leadership and Love Languages.(My duties included: facilitating the main group discussions, organizing the mani/pedi pampering and leading a breakout on How to Lead a Bible Study.)


And of course, I had to join in the lego breakout time since, with two sons, I'm very experienced.

We all had our own responsibilities and duties. And, while not everything ran "according to plan," it was great to see how the Lord showed up when we just let go of control.


As you reflect on the birth of our Savior this season, may you experience the Father's Love. And may that love compel you to live your life giving His love away.