So yesterday I spoke on two very different occasions to two very different congregations about two very different subjects. In the morning, it was at the United Church in Bhubaneswar, a city of 1.3 million people in northeast India. I delivered the morning sermon to a crowd of about 300 educated, polite, and urbanized Indians. Read the full article…
Our final meeting in Phnom Penh was the most important of them all as our GSUMC team gathered with 10 District Superintendents of the Cambodian Methodist Church. We were struck with the courage of these pastors and leaders. Most are the only Christians in their entire family, risking reputation, livelihood, and family connection to follow Read the full article…
Today we a real highlight because our team was able to visit the Phnom Penh field office of the International Justice Mission. IJM works in the darkest corners of the human race: sexual slavery. Its four-fold mission: ersis1. Victim Rescue2. Perpetrator Accountability3. Victim Aftercare4. Structural Change The young girls who are trafficked deserve freedom. Those Read the full article…
Here are some odds and ends from our trip. I will give a more comprehensive Friday post later tonight . . . or early Friday morning, Charlotte time. Random notes: The world really is flat, as Thomas Friedman says. While delivering yesterday’s sermon in a village with no electricity or running water, the message was Read the full article…
As I mentioned in Tuesday’s post, Good Shepherd’s founding pastor Claude Kayler forged a relationship with Cambodian pastor Sopeung Sok in 1999 and 2000. As a result, our church was able to build a church building for Pastor Sopeung’s church early in the last decade. So today, I got to preach a sermon and then Read the full article…
