Activies at the school

  More Scholarships

 Monthly prizes for first place in their classes

 

AGHO's Chenda 2nd grade

repeat winner

Eangly 6th Grade

1st place every month

Kindergarten

Sreypich 4th grade

Lisa 1st grade 

return student

 AGHO's Mangly 3rd grade

Repeat winner

 Kindergarten

 Sreypow 1st grade

return student repeat winner

 Buntheng 3rd grade

 AHGO's Veasna 5th grade

1st place every month

 Micah 4th grade

repeat winner

 

A small portion of our extra classes

for the children that can't read or write yet.  They focus most of their time only studying Khmer.  Hopefully once they can read we can place the back full time with their class and they can begin to catch up. 

 3rd grade

 2nd grade

 4th grade

 Donations help us clean up and help us prepare the way for more buildings.

 Back filling the pond, space for more buildings and no more worries about a child drowning.

 Teachers hanging out at the last VBS

Past pictures I've enjoyed looking at recently as 

I am always fascinated at the beauty of the kids in Cambodian.

This little one reminds me of an old friend Kim Torres/Russell 

 Obviously 1 of my 2 favorite students

Still passing out the beanies from a lady in Arizona, was a pretty big hit

 PE between 5th and 6th grade at the orphanage.

 We have about 155 children now and this is what that looks like.

 We had an angry teacher visit us the other day, his complaint was that we were making things difficult for them at public school.  Evidently the government has be nipping at the local school to do a better job because we are making them look bad.   He wasn't happy with the pressure they have received.

 It was one of those backwards compliments we have enjoyed so much. 

Receiveing Mode for Poperty Funds

Little Update.

A Heart For Wisdom school recently sponsored an event which started out as just an hour or so of a Missouri team playing music and visually acting out the scriptures at church.  It turn into a major event while the team was on the airplane.  We ended up playing the Jesus Film, playing worship from our church and a neighboring church.  We also had a Christian players preform Lazarus and the Poor man and the Prodigal Son along with the Missouri team playing their worship and interpretive dance to the bible.  

There was alter calls and prayer.  Were hundreds of people were saved and people were healed.

We've had 14 new children added the school and 10 children to church.

It I feel was a very successful event.  Just getting the Word out I would have considered successful.

God certainly has blessed the work.

Right now it seems like we receive a new child nearly every day.

We are going to send out a flyer to notify the community that we will stop accepting new children because we have been only receiving children that can't read and write.  The families have realized that after 3 months that their children are not learning at the public school and are making the change to our school.  But it is beginning to make it difficult for us to keep the class sharp and moving forward when we are introducing new kids all week  long.

Right now we are at 144 students.

We also had a group of teachers come to us and tell us that they think what we are doing is wonderful and will be a very successful school.  They said they want to spend time volunteering at our school 6 to 8 hours a week.

This was a very kind compliment to have non- Christian teachers approaching a Christian school that is competition for them.  It is also wonderful to see there are caring teachers at the public school.  They too are just stuck in a system they don't like.

 

I want to share with you all that I have this very big feeling inside me that we are about to grow. 

I already know that next year we will have more students than we will be able to handle.

I also feel like we will have the land and begin to start building this year.

Maybe because we have had so many people telling they want to help, or that raising funds for this will be easy.  It is hard to describe but it almost feels like the day before your birthday or Christmas and you know tomorrow you will get gifts.  

It is that feeling that tomorrow I will wake up with an email from Liz at church saying God has blessed you guys again.

Of course tomorrow is figuratively speaking, probably not tomorrow but I can feel it, it is in the air,it is around the corner.

So right now I have set out to design the class rooms and workout a possible layout for the buildings on the land.

We really would like to make invitations to everyone and their friends that we are in the receiving mode for School Property Funds.

We are looking at two possible pieces of land one is closer to the road at $5 a meter.

There is the more likely option at $2 a meter but about 1/2 mile down the road.

 Our purchase of the land will reflect the donations received for the land purchase.

We currently have $13,000 out of the $150,000 we are looking for.

Also if there are persons out there blessed with planning that wishes to help in the design of the buildings or property please contact us.

I could really use this type of help.

Please pray with us that God will bless us and the work abundantly.

Kit

 

 

 

Pride in a Godly way

I am not one to boast, but I do like to share about what God is doing through us.
The teachers much of the work, God is using them dramatically.

Today we are over 120 students at the school.  It seems like we take a new student nearly each day lately.

The great thing about the what is going on is what is being said.  How I love to hear the comments coming in for all over of how we are reaching and serving our community.
I will try and post quotes frequently so you can rejoice with us.

Most recent and one of my favorite quotes is from my father in-law he was getting a haircut the people around were saying "if you want your kids to learn to read and write you need to send them to the Jesus school".
Yes, that is the reason we are here and people understand it.

Out of the 122 children 22 of them can't read or write so we had to create an extra class to get them caught up.  This is a class I think that shares our care and desire to help the most.  We have children from the 3rd to 6th grade in there that were pretty much on their way to nowhere, possible dropouts next year for the 6th graders, but not now.
People are telling us their child has learned more in one month than they did all last year in the public system.
The parents like for the work we are doing.  Honestly it is not that we are the best so I my pride is not look at us or what we do, we've just started, but it is far better that what they had and we are touching the peoples hearts.  But mostly it is God working through us He is making the difference, even if it is just the amount of love and care to try hard and give more than we get.
 
We really hope this translates into growth and strengthening of the church, easing their thoughts about Christians and maybe making a change themselves.

So thankful to be used in a big way.  God is great.