Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Dancing and Are You Single?

I love Cambodia!
The last two dAys at the conference have been wonderful! So far we have heard from 3 different speakers. Edwin from South Africa taught how each of us have our signature on this world. Kevin who was born in Iran and raised in Sweden had an incredible testimony of how his Muslim mother found Jesus and through her consistent praying, her son (Kevin) found Jesus too! The other speaker was Matt (he has a really long traditional name because he is from the MicMah tribe of Canada). Matt is a spokesperson for indigenous tribes all over the world. He goes to the tribes and encourages them to worship God and Jesus through their culture. So many people have told them that to follow Jesus they have to leave their culture behind...but that's not true! God is the creator of culture and fully intends for Jesus to be in the culture, not outside of it. He showed a video of a bunch of tribes that gather every year to worship God together...so awesome! Tonight we had a time of worship. Edwin (who is South African) led us in a dance. He had the whole room doing dance  moves while singing "Hold on to Jesus" in 3 or more different languages! SO much fun! There was eventually a whole room conga type line going (mind you there is almost 200 people at this event). After that we sang How Great is Our God in about 20 different languages at least (there are 25 countries represented at this conference). It was great!!

So now for my funny moment:
This afternoon we had evangelism.
I was with 2 Cambodian girls and Santy.
One of the girls named Sopoem wanted to go to a house with a lady who wasn't able to leave her home due to being and elderly and sick. This lady is a Christian and a very sweet lady. After being at the house for a few minutes her son arrived. He spoke some English. After talking for a little bit he asked Santy and I if we were single. After a little while he asked me "Do you have plans to marry after your DTS?" I responded with a 'no, I am still pretty young, I am only 19" he said "oh you are young" Santy looked right at him and said "yes she is still very young" (Mama Santy always looking out for us!). After a little while the man continued to just ask me questions (not Santy). Questions like: what does your name mean? Then comments like: The way you sit is like Khmer, maybe we will see each other in 3 years, etc.
Oh but it didn't end there. Once we were getting ready to leave Santy asked if they would like prayer for anything. After getting some responses from the Grandma he said:
"Please pray that God will give me a good wife. Doesn't matter if she is foreigner or if she is Khmer. I just really want a good wife" [as Santy described the moment: "he says this whole looking straight at Brittany"]. After that we decided that we would all pray together out loud BUT the man requested that I close the prayer. Kinda awkward trying to pray about wife situation haha!  

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