Prayer Request for Christian Friend's Mission Back Home to Cambodia

Email ^ | 12/8/2008 | A friend

[tang-soo]

Introductory note from church friend telling others of Suzie's upcoming trip

Please be praying for Suzie as she makes the monumental trip back to the land of her birth to share the Story with her family. If you haven't met Suzie, you sure need to make a point to seek her out. She is an amazing young woman with tremendous resiliency and a true testament to the power of God over you even when you don't know who He is quite yet. Suzie came to the US speaking very little English....became a US citizen and a college grad. She is also a single mom of a teenaged son.

Let's commit to praying earnestly for Suzie's trip...for her safety, and that the Holy Spirit will be upon her and work through her to bring her family into His family!!

This is Suzie's note

Hi ***, I hope you are doing well!

I wanted to inform everyone that I will be going to Cambodia on January * at *:** and returning on February * at *:**. On the way there, I will have a * hours lay over at *****. On the way back, I will have an * hours lay over in ********.

Please pray for my safety during my travel and while staying in Cambodia as well as the reception between me and my family. More importantly, please pray for me as I have a hunger and desire to share Christ with my family. I feel that I don't know enough about the faith so please pray that God will give me the words and wisdom to share the truth and stay firm to potential resistance and negativity. My goal is to share about Christ and pray that the family and neighbors will see Christ through me...that will be one of the most profound and powerful testimony I can provide...I believe. I also wanted to purposely use this trip to recreate my past during the war so I can have closure, but due to the limited resources and certain conditions I will face, I am not sure if it will be possible.

Just a little flavor of my life for those who do not know me. I grew up during the war reigned by a group called the Khmer Rouge. I was taken away at the age of 5 to perform manual labor such as building roads and planting rice in the rice patty, work from before sunrise to after sunset while experiencing starvation everyday with the Khmer Rouge soldiers standing on the side ready to shoot and kill at any moment.

I was also kept from seeing my parents and the rest of my family. Every night laying in the stillness of the pitched dark world, all of my emotional and physical being ached, desperately missing and longing to be in the circle of my mother's arms again. Thus, many times I would escape in search for my parents, but always got caught by one of the Khmer Rouge's soldiers...sometimes caught at midway, sometimes caught as I reached my mother, and sometimes caught shortly after I have a few moments with my father/mother. With each escape attempt and when caught, it is called for one to be killed. However, in my case, I was never physically or verbally harmed by the soldier who caught me and brought me back to the dorm.

All of the times I was away from my parents and family, I had always felt a higher being was watching over me. Even in the midst of extreme and frozen fear, at times I felt calm because I felt the protection from a higher being and by a spirit. For many years I sought understanding about that. While alone, I longed and ached for my mother's love as well and always felt protection from above, escaped and came to Thailand in 1979 where I watched the Jesus Christ movie (not knowing a word of English yet ), and came to the US in 1982 where I was introduced to Christ. It was then that I knew the protection I felt ever so strongly came from God and the Holy Spirt. This is why I cannot be mute about sharing Christ with my family. This trip will mark the first time I unite with my family again since 1979.

[tang-soo]

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[Mamzelle]

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