His Work In Cambodia Amid Great Challenges

Is healing possible for a small country in southeast Asia?

Janine is in Cambodia, promoting Spotlight Listeners` Clubs. She writes, “ The enthusiasm for the clubs seems high, please pray they do something with it..”

The high-profile trial of Comrade Duch is also going on there now. During the Khmer Rouge reign of terror in the 1970s, he ordered the executions of 12,000 to 15,000 people. A “Killing Fields” survivor, François Bizot, explores possibilities of forgiveness briefly in his op/ed piece, “My Savior, Their Killer.”



Against this dark backdrop, God is at work in Cambodia. In the 1970s revolution to establish utopia, the Khmer Rouge set about eradicating religion. Now these former fighters (Comrade Duch included) profess faith in Jesus Christ.

If you look closely you'll see a tear streaking down her cheek. The KR recorded many of its victims with photos. She knew what was about to happen to her. -Janine


In a similar trial 10 years ago of Ta Mok (“The Butcher”) in Cambodia, who should emerge as the Khmer Rouge leader’s defense attorney? Benson Samay, whose own wife and 12-year-old daughter were killed by the Khmer Rouge.


I do not know Samay´s motivation. If he could serve the executioner, imagine what God can do in lives of perpetrators and victims who have embraced Christ! Where sin abounds, grace much more abounds.

If clubs get going in Cambodia . . . people (many who lost loved ones in the “Killing Fields”, I´m sure) will have SO MUCH to talk about.

photos provided by Janine. To go to her blog click her name above or click here.