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-Chris Allison
The Allison Family - 2010
It has been a really, really long time since I last put an update on here, so I wanted to do that. We have now been in Cambodia for almost a year and a half (not including the 3 months that we spent in the states). There have been a lot of ups and downs in just this short while that we’ve been here. We are so excited, though, to be living this dream and seeing God’s hand unfolding His works in front of us. This truly is one of the coolest lives one could live.
Thank you so much to all of you who have been praying for us. This is the best and most important thing you could be doing! We have just sent out our latest newsletter, so hopefully that will catch you up on some of the things we’ve been doing. You can subscribe to our feed if you’d like to also (use the orange button on the right).
I will try to post on here more often in the future. Thanks for reading.
(chum-reab-sua) – This is how you say hello in Khmer, the official language of Cambodia. We are working hard to learn the language so we can serve the Lord all the better in the future.
So far since we have been in Cambodia (a little over two months now) we have been blessed with a great house to live in in an excellent neighborhood where we can talk with our neighbors and grow our language ability. We have moved into our house, been given a new puppy, had 2 birthdays (Maggie and Chris), begun language study, hosted potential future teammates, and much more.
It’s really exciting to be in Cambodia working towards what we believe God wants us to be doing. That having been said, it is also sometimes discouraging living here because we see what a huge task lay before us and how slow it will be. We do still believe that God wants us here and we will work our best to learn the language and serve Him – and He will do what He wants with us and the people we influence. We are learning constantly that ministry is all God’s even though it seems that is rests on us. Prayer is one of our most important jobs as missionaries.
Please keep us in your prayers as we work to learn the language, fit in here, identify with the people, and eventually bring people into relationships with the Lord. Please sign up for our newsletter (over on the right) if you are interested in receiving monthly updates. Thank you.
Well, we have been in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for a little over two weeks now. We arrived here on Monday, April 13th and we have been staying with another missionary couple here. We are spending most of our time right now looking for a house to settle into and trying to get otherwise settled in and accustomed to living in Cambodia. There are also a few odds and ends we need to get done like getting our visas sorted out and finding a tutor to teach us the Cambodia language: Khmer.
We are so grateful to everyone who has helped us get here. We feel a mixture of feelingsbeing here. We are excited and anxious to begin learning Khmer and interact with local people and eventually start working to build churches, but we also have a feeling like, “Is this real?” Overall, we are very glad we are in Cambodia and excited about what God will do here and with us in the future. Please continue to pray for us and for the Cambodian people. To receive regular updates of our work in Cambodia, you can sign up for our newsletter – click the picture on the left. May our Father bless you today!
