A SHORT VISIT TO PHNOM
PENH, CAMBODIA
20-23 JUNE, 2003
It
had always been on my heart to visit Indochina (Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam)
and its neighboring nations. By God's grace a door was opened for me to
visit Phnom Penh. This could be the beginning of more visits, not only
to Cambodia but also to the surrounding nations of Thailand and Myanmar.
In
the past, the 70s and 80s, I had correspondences with a few Christians in
Thailand and Myanmar (which was then known as Burma). However, the
relationship in the Word did not continue. Politically the nations in
the north of Malaysia were going through crisis after crisis. There were
civil unrest, wars and genocide. In Cambodia, about 2 million people
were killed under the regime of Pol Pot from 1975 to 1979, 4 years after the
Vietnam War ended in 1975.
Sometime in 2001, Bro. Nan Khorn received a package of books from the
ministry here.
He has no idea who was responsible for the books that were sent to him.
He only remembered that he did not write me nor know about the ministry
here. He gave a few books to a believer whom he brought to the faith
and it was this young man (Sopheak Somalee) who, having visited my website,
established a contact with me through the email. A visit was planned.
And, together with a brother, Bro. Kathirasan, I went.
Bro.
Nan Khorn is a 36-year old married man. During the later part of the Pol Pot regime,
together with his mother and siblings, he crossed the border into
Thailand to a Refugee Camp. All were later taken to the United States
in 1981 where he received the Gospel. However, he did not give himself fully
to the Lord until after High School. He was active for the Lord in
different denominations, but in
God's providence, he found himself a call to return to Cambodia to preach
the Gospel to his own people. He returned in 1993. In 1998 the Message of the Prophet-messenger, William Branham,
came to him through
an American minister. Only in 1999 did he then fully embrace it.
A work was established such that he began interpreting the audio messages of
Bro. Branham into the Cambodian Khmer language and also putting them into
book form. Helping him was his wife, Sis. Sokunnarath, whom he married
in 1999. Sis. Sokunnarath saw the truth when she was then in a
Charismatic church that has ties with the New Creation Church here in
Singapore.
Bro.
Nan has been active in the ministry, taking the message to people even at
the borders with the other nations. It has born fruits in the short span
of time it took him to sow the seeds. Do pray for him that the seeds he
sows will continue to yield fruits.
Bro.
Nan and Bro. Sopheak has written a few "message" songs in the Khmer
language. Here is one of them sang by Sopheak:
"Jesus Christ is the Bridegroom"