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Series Code: JFAN
Program Code: JFAN000047A
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00:22 Hello and welcome to Jesus for Asia Now.
00:24 I'm Natalie Wood and today I have my husband Jon with me. 00:27 And we will be talking with our friend Tim Maddocks 00:29 who is a missionary in Cambodia. 00:32 Welcome, Tim, to the show. 00:35 So nice to have you here, and what did you just say? 00:38 I said hello. Okay. 00:40 In which language? 00:41 Cambodian or the Khmer language. 00:43 Excellent. Can you teach us? 00:51 Very good. Thank you. Okay. 00:54 So how long have you been in Cambodia? 00:57 I went to Cambodia in 1992. 00:59 And how did you choose going to Cambodia? 01:01 All right, God actually chose for me. 01:04 We had decided to join ADRA and the development work, 01:08 and ADRA offered me a position in Africa or in Cambodia. 01:13 Wendy, my wife and I had both sided for Africa, 01:16 but left the choice to God and He sent us to Cambodia. 01:19 Okay, so when you got to Cambodia, 01:21 was it beautiful tropical paradise? 01:27 Cambodia had been through years and years of civil war, 01:30 and it was still coming out of that. 01:32 There is still a civil war going on at the time in 1992. 01:37 It was really in quite a bad way. 01:39 Wow. 01:40 Now you talk about a civil war, 01:43 but this was the home of the killing fields and Pol Pot, 01:47 so it was pretty traumatic. 01:49 Yeah, they wiped out about 01:51 a quarter of the population of Cambodia 01:53 during the war years. 01:54 Wow! Wow! 01:56 That's hard to even imagine. 01:58 Yeah, it's hard to find someone 02:00 who wasn't affected 02:03 in a very close personal way by. 02:05 Yeah. And you took your family there? 02:08 God's choice. 02:12 Not only did I take my family there, 02:13 but all my family is still there with me 02:15 25 years later. 02:17 Hey, well, we want to get more into your story. 02:18 We have some pictures to share also. 02:21 But you started out working with ADRA, 02:23 and now you are doing something completely different, 02:26 so what happened there? 02:29 While we were working with ADRA, 02:30 we were also church planting 02:32 because immediately when I arrived in Siem Reap, 02:36 I realized I was probably the only Christian in the town, 02:39 so I had a greater responsibility 02:41 than just helping rice farmers improve their rice yields. 02:45 So we began church planting in town 02:47 and during that period of time God began to speak to me 02:51 and ask me to work full-time for Him 02:53 doing church planting and training church planters, 02:57 and church leaders. 02:58 And so, in 1996, 03:03 we began what we call SALT Ministries 03:06 and we moved away from working with ADRA 03:10 to working full-time for God 03:12 and God has kept us in that work ever since. 03:15 Okay, so you said, you moved away 03:17 from working for ADRA. 03:18 Now with ADRA, were you a volunteer? 03:21 Or were you being paid or... 03:22 I was being paid and although the salary wasn't super high, 03:26 I had free housing, free electricity, 03:29 free use of a vehicle. 03:30 Working for God full-time? 03:32 What does that look like as far as your wages 03:36 so to speak? 03:37 Well, I got my last paycheck, December 31, 1995. 03:42 So working for God meant trusting Him 03:44 to supply all our needs. 03:46 He also told me to use all the funds 03:49 that we had saved 03:50 to get the work started that He was asking us to do. 03:53 Right. So you had to buy land. 03:55 So what kind of land are you talking about? 03:58 A little place for one house, you said houses? 04:03 So God impressed us 04:04 that we should build a training center 04:07 and so we needed a classroom, 04:09 we needed accommodation 04:11 for students and their families, 04:13 and I felt about 20 acres would be about right. 04:19 And so we've... 04:21 God impressed me where to buy the land. 04:23 It was like the worst of worst land 04:25 as far as farming was concerned. 04:27 And so, the farmers were willing to sell it, 04:30 which was a good thing. 04:31 And after buying it, then God spoke to me again 04:35 and said, "Expand the land." 04:38 And it's like, "Well, we don't have much money 04:41 and we've already spent a chunk of it 04:43 buying the first part of land. 04:45 We have to develop it 04:46 and you want me to buy more land." 04:47 So I ask God, "To give me a sign" 04:50 and that was to show me in the Bible, 04:52 and so I took a Bible and let it full open 04:55 and put my finger on a text 04:56 without looking at what the text said, 04:58 and then brought the Bible and read it, and it said, 05:02 "Expand the borders." 05:04 And I did this four times and each time the intent 05:07 that it takes was to enlarge. 05:09 And so I said, "Okay, God, 05:10 I understand this is Your will." 05:12 And we went ahead and bought more land 05:14 to make a total of 42 acres. 05:17 Okay. 05:18 So the first picture we have 05:20 is of your first house there on the property? 05:23 Okay, describe to us 05:24 what this house is that we are seeing here? 05:26 Well, this is a typical house for the poor people. 05:30 And this house actually cost about $300 to build. 05:33 And it took local people about three days to put together. 05:38 And the reason we did this 05:41 was because God had told us 05:44 that He wanted us to live like the local people. 05:47 And so we started living like the poorest of the poor. 05:51 And this was a way 05:52 I think that God wanted to help the local people see 05:56 that we were there to help them, 05:58 not to exploit them. 06:00 Okay, so your house was made of grass? 06:03 Palm leaves, bamboo, and wooden poles. 06:07 And where was Wendy's kitchen? 06:09 Wendy's kitchen was right beside the steps. 06:12 The steps just behind 06:14 where we are standing and so it's outside, 06:17 and it was just a little clay cooking pot type thing. 06:22 Stove thing. 06:23 You put your fire wood in and lit it up, 06:24 and put the saucepan on top. 06:27 And, yeah, she was very gracious 06:31 in being subject to such 06:33 difficult conditions for cooking 06:36 but she did a good job. 06:37 How old were your sons when you went? 06:40 When we went to Cambodia, 06:41 Shannon was almost one year of age 06:44 and Caleb is three and a half. 06:46 So here in this picture, 06:49 Caleb's seven and Shannon's four and a half. 06:53 Wow. 06:54 So they have grown up 06:55 their whole lives in Cambodia basically? 06:56 Pretty much, yes. 06:58 And they speak the language fluently, 06:59 they read and write the language as well. 07:02 So when I say the word, home, you think of Australia? 07:06 Home is where my pillow is. 07:10 No, home is there for me Cambodia. 07:12 But also knowing it's where God wants me to be. 07:15 So you chose to live in this house 07:16 so that you could become more like the local people. 07:20 What kind of ministry you would call that? 07:22 We call that an incarnational ministry. 07:25 So becoming like the people that you are working with. 07:28 And the purpose of that is... 07:30 So that they will accept you, 07:31 so that they will see that you are not better than them, 07:35 that you appreciate their way of living. 07:39 To remove as many obstacles to them 07:41 seeing the gospel as possible. 07:43 That's right, yeah. 07:44 Okay, so it's the dangerous area 07:46 that you moved into, 07:47 away from the downtown part of the city. 07:50 Lot of people were robbed at gunpoint. 07:53 Have you had that experience? 07:54 Yes, one night about nine o'clock at night, 07:56 we heard a disturbance outside this little thatched house. 08:00 And as I went out with a flash light 08:03 to see what it was 08:05 and there were three AK-47 rifles pointing at me. 08:07 Whoa! Whoa! 08:10 So what did you do? 08:11 I stepped back in the doorway 08:13 'cause I didn't want them getting into the one room house 08:16 where my kids and my wife was. 08:20 They asked for money. 08:21 And so my wife gave them money 08:23 she had which was very small amount, 08:26 Cambodian money and they looked at it 08:28 as in the light that was coming through the door 08:31 and threw it back into the house, 08:32 so they were obviously upset. 08:34 At that point one of them stepped out to me 08:37 and he put the gun just here, 08:41 and so I am looking down the black barrel, 08:43 and I can see the angry face, 08:45 and I can see his finger was on the trigger. 08:49 So what happened next? 08:51 I began to think about the fact that I was gonna die. 08:54 Yeah. 08:56 And as I thought about it, the thought came to my mind, 08:59 "Do I really believe 09:00 that I am saved by the blood of Jesus?" 09:04 And as I thought about that, 09:05 the answer was emphatically yes. 09:09 And God just filled my heart with this warm 09:12 sense of joy and peace, 09:14 that's a really hard thing to describe. 09:17 So, in this moment 09:18 where I think I am about to die, 09:20 I am in this euphoric sense of joy. 09:24 Were you smiling? I have no idea. 09:28 I think things like that they just happen so fast, 09:30 the brain's working at light speed, 09:33 and it seems like a long time but it wasn't long time. 09:36 Wow. 09:37 So you have this sense of peace and what happens next? 09:41 One of the three guys steps up to the one with the gun 09:44 and pushes him over. 09:46 He must have thought 09:47 he was really going to pull the trigger, 09:48 and the guy stumbled and dropped the gun. 09:51 And as he got up, he grabbed the gun 09:53 by the barrel and swung it and hit me in the leg 09:56 with the steel handle that was on the gun. 09:59 Wow! Should have broken your leg? 10:01 So did that... Yeah, what happened to your leg? 10:04 Well, it should have broken my leg, 10:05 my legs are really skinny. 10:07 But, and he hit me with quite a lot of force 10:09 but it was as if my legs were cemented to the floor, 10:13 there was no damage to the bones. 10:14 I did have a dent in the muscle for quite some time after that. 10:18 But, I then said to them, "I will get you some money." 10:22 And I walked across the house, 10:24 Wendy, my wife stepped into the doorway 10:26 to keep them out 10:28 and I had two bundles of money there in the house, 10:32 one was about $18 in Cambodian money 10:36 and the other was $1,000 in the US money. 10:38 That's what they were going after. 10:40 Well, I figured they didn't know 10:42 I had $1,000 in there. 10:44 Because normally I wouldn't have a $1,000 10:46 but that day I got money out of the bank 10:47 to buy wood to build houses for our lay training program 10:51 and I wasn't able to buy the wood. 10:53 And I couldn't put the money back in the bank, 10:55 so I had to have it with me in the house. 10:58 So I figured, well, they don't know it's here so 11:01 and it's God's money, 11:02 so I am gonna give them the smaller bundle, 11:04 and so I handed that out through the door to them 11:06 and they looked at it, disappeared into the darkness. 11:09 Wow! Wow! 11:11 That must have been quite intense for you and Wendy. 11:13 What did you do next? 11:14 We got down on our knees and prayed, 11:16 thanking God for His protection. 11:18 Yeah. 11:19 You might ask me, 11:20 why did God allow that to happen? 11:24 And that was a good question. Thank you. 11:26 My wife had just been talking just before they came and said, 11:31 "It's important for us to experience 11:34 what the local people experience." 11:36 And one of the things they experienced 11:38 and really feared was being robbed at gunpoint, 11:40 and so just 30 seconds later this event happens. 11:45 I don't think God engineered it, 11:47 I think it was a satanic thing but God used it. 11:52 And the local people fully expected us 11:55 to pack up your family and leave 11:58 but we didn't, we just carried on trusting 12:00 that God would protect us. 12:03 And that broke down a lot of barriers in our community. 12:07 And they began to accept us as part of their community 12:10 because we were willing to put up with the things 12:11 that their community had to put up with. 12:13 Wow! Amazing. 12:15 And so then, out of that came your church plant? 12:18 That was a significant point 12:20 in helping our church plant move forward. 12:22 Amazing. Wow. 12:23 So how long did you live in the first house, 12:25 the grass house? 12:26 We lived in the grass house for one year. 12:28 Okay. And then you built a new house? 12:30 Yes, we built a two story wooden house 12:32 like what the more wealthy people 12:33 in the village lived in. 12:35 Okay, describe that to us, 12:37 are there screens on the windows? 12:38 No, you're not having screens on the windows. 12:40 No screens, it has shutters. 12:42 It's not lined inside. 12:44 We did have one glass window that looked into our bird cage 12:48 so we can enjoy our parrots 12:49 and they couldn't fly into the house. 12:51 Did you have an inside toilet? 12:53 In this house, yes. 12:54 We had built the toilet inside. 12:56 Okay. And the kitchen? 12:57 Kitchen was downstairs, was a very small kitchen, 13:01 but it was much better than the kitchen 13:03 Wendy have had in the previous house. 13:05 She thought it was luxurious. 13:06 It was covered and how did Wendy 13:07 do the washing in these houses? 13:10 Well, outside the house we had a ring well, and so... 13:13 What's a ring well? 13:14 It's a concrete, a well with concrete rings 13:17 going down into the ground. 13:18 And so... So you lift the water? 13:20 Yeah, we have rope tied to bucket 13:22 and just throw the bucket in and pull it up. 13:24 She had some bowls to pull the water in 13:26 and then she washed by hand. 13:28 Wow! Okay. 13:29 And then how did she dry clothes? 13:31 Hang it up in the line. Okay. 13:33 So it's sort of, you would wring out the clothes 13:35 and then take them and shake them out, 13:37 hang them up. 13:38 Yeah. 13:39 So as far as bathing, 13:40 I mean you didn't have the indoor shower 13:42 at the first house 13:43 and you had the bathroom inside at the second house, 13:46 but what happened with bathing? 13:47 The bath time was really fun 13:48 'cause we could bath us as a family, 13:51 because you bathe outside in the open, 13:53 everybody can see. 13:55 So you have to dress modestly enough 13:56 so that, yeah, you are not exposed. 13:59 And so we used to have baths as a family 14:01 and we have conversations when we're taking a bath 14:04 and it was actually a really happy time. 14:06 So then while you are at this house, 14:08 what was your main mission task? 14:10 I mean, God put you on this land for a purpose? 14:13 God's main task first was to train laypeople 14:17 to be leaders in local churches, 14:19 and to go out and start new churches. 14:22 Okay, so describe the church at that time, 14:24 the church of Cambodia? 14:26 In 1992, when I arrived, there was basically no church. 14:30 So there was just a handful of people meeting 14:33 in the capital city, Phnom Penh. 14:35 But there were people returning 14:37 from the refugee camps in Thailand 14:39 who would become Christian, become Adventist 14:41 and some of them had been trained to be leaders. 14:44 So they were coming in and they were sent out 14:48 to start new churches in different cities 14:51 around the country. 14:52 And because of the trouble 14:55 that the country had been through, 14:57 a lot of people were looking for hope, 15:00 and so we found that many people returning to Christ 15:02 when they heard the good news of salvation through Jesus. 15:06 But these people are coming out of a Buddhist mindset 15:10 and often poorly educated, 15:12 and so it's a huge leap to become an Adventist. 15:17 And so they needed time and they needed teaching. 15:22 So our lay training program 15:23 that was four months long live in program. 15:26 Was opportunity to deepen their faith in God 15:29 and deepen their understanding of the Bible 15:32 and prepare them to go out and share with others. 15:35 So how many four months training programs did you do? 15:38 We did 12 over a ten year period 15:41 and about 400 people attended. 15:43 Okay, so then that was training people 15:46 to go back into other areas, 15:48 do you have any stories about any of these church planters 15:51 that you would like to share? 15:52 There were three young people 15:54 that came to one of our trainings 15:55 and they were Cambodian. 15:57 And at the end of the training, the mission, 16:00 the Cambodia Adventist mission using global mission funds 16:04 from the General Conference sent them way up 16:06 into the northeast of the country 16:08 to a province called Ratanakiri. 16:11 And they were witnessing to Cambodian people 16:14 but a lot of tribal people 16:17 as well as there's quite a number of different 16:18 tribal groups up in that area. 16:20 And they brought a number of tribal people to Jesus. 16:24 One of those tribal people then came and trained also. 16:28 And then he went back 16:29 and started sharing with his people. 16:32 And this picture that we see here, 16:34 this is a picture of one of his worship groups 16:38 which I was blessed to be able to visit 16:41 and also to baptize about 20 people 16:43 that have come to know Christ from his tribal group. 16:45 And they were the first people from that tribe 16:47 to be baptized the Seventh-day Adventist. 16:49 Wow. So the church really grew quickly? 16:52 The church was growing very quickly 16:53 like 500-600 people a year. 16:56 What's Wendy doing aside 16:57 from washing clothes and pounding out the meals? 17:01 What was she doing during this time? 17:03 She was home schooling our children, 17:05 and then she was running a medical clinic, 17:08 and she was also teaching health, 17:10 and how to reach children 17:13 with the gospel to our lay trainees, 17:14 so she was very busy also. 17:16 Yeah. Does she have like medical training? 17:19 She did a three year diploma in podiatry foot care, 17:23 and so she had basic medical training. 17:26 But she read books 17:28 and she couldn't find the answer 17:31 to someone's illness, 17:32 she took him to doctor or hospital 17:34 and learned from the doctor, 17:36 and then was able to treat that illness in the future. 17:39 She also taught herself midwifery 17:42 and has delivered over 55 babies. 17:45 Wow! So this clinic, is that still running today? 17:48 It ran for just four years. 17:50 The government asked us to close it 17:52 because we weren't qualified medical people. 17:57 We didn't have agreement with them to operate it, 18:00 but in that four years she treated about 6,000 people 18:04 and it really helped to break down barriers as well 18:07 because people saw that we were there to help them. 18:09 Right. Wow. 18:10 So describe what's happening in this picture? 18:12 This picture is a picture of a baby dedication. 18:15 Now, although I'm a biologist and teacher by training, 18:19 God had told me, he wanted me to be a pastor 18:21 and I just couldn't understand 18:22 how that was going to be possible. 18:24 But these days I do a lot of pastoring 18:27 and here I am in a home doing a baby dedication 18:30 for actually two families. 18:32 Here we have an aunty and her niece 18:35 being dedicated at the same time. 18:39 Wow, that's amazing. 18:41 So it truly is God qualifies the called. 18:43 That's right, yeah. 18:45 Okay, so then you also got involved with church planting 18:48 on your own property? 18:49 God had asked us to plant a church 18:51 in our local community 18:52 because there weren't any Christians 18:54 in our local community when we moved there. 18:56 And that church has grown 19:00 and so here we have our current church building. 19:03 We started building this in 1998 19:05 and we completed it in the year 2002, 19:09 took us a while to get it done. 19:12 It's a unique design. 19:13 We thought that we should use a design 19:18 that local people identify it as a building for worship. 19:21 And so I looked at Buddha's temples 19:23 and selected one, 19:26 made some modifications 19:28 and then we built that building, 19:29 and so this is what we have. 19:31 Inside there is no chairs. 19:34 The Buddhist religion and in their culture 19:36 have a lot of really respectful things built in. 19:40 One of them is that when people come to worship, 19:44 they take their shoes off before they enter the building. 19:46 Kind of like Moses before the burning bush? 19:49 Yeah, exactly. Okay. 19:50 And they also sit on the floor. 19:54 They won't sit in the lotus position, 19:56 the position that you see Buddhist sitting in 19:58 because that would be showing disrespect to Buddha. 20:01 So they sit with their legs folded to the side, 20:04 and so to them 20:06 this is a respectful position to be in during worship. 20:10 And that's beautiful because in the Bible 20:12 we find that people were down on the floor worshipping God, 20:16 and so we decided we would adopt that for our church. 20:19 It has a couple of other advantages, 20:21 you don't have to buy chairs 20:24 and you can get twice as many people in the building. 20:28 So you were doing church planting 20:29 for quite a while or church planter training? 20:33 We were doing church planting 20:34 and church planter training simultaneously. 20:37 So our church planter trainees were helping us 20:40 with our local church plant. 20:41 Excellent. 20:42 And God had you start out another project at that time? 20:46 After the first training we asked one of our trainees, 20:49 a local lady 20:51 who had had three years of education 20:54 to start teaching school. 20:56 There were a lot of children in our community 20:58 who were too poor to go to the government school, 21:01 and so they weren't getting any literacy training at all. 21:04 So we allocated a small veranda area 21:08 for her to use as classroom and to teach kids 21:10 from the poorest of the poor. 21:12 And she started when we were about 20 students, 21:16 but it became clear very soon 21:18 that God had much bigger plans for this tiny school, 21:22 and over the years it grew 21:23 into a kindergarten to grade 12 school. 21:26 And we teach in English 21:28 and we teach in the Khmer language, 21:30 we teach a lot of vocational subjects as well. 21:33 Well, the primary goal of the school 21:35 is to prepare our young people to be missionaries for Christ. 21:39 How many students do you have attending the school 21:41 at this point? 21:42 In our main school we have 310, 21:44 but we also have a couple of very small satellite schools, 21:47 so we have about 20 more kids between those two schools. 21:50 Amazing. So here is one of your classrooms? 21:52 This is the year 12 students. And what is this building? 21:57 This building is a dormitory and cafeteria. 22:00 Very early on in our school's history, 22:04 church members began asking me, 22:06 can they send their children to our school 22:07 but they lived way off in the country side. 22:11 And so we accepted a small number of kids, boys, 22:14 basically we let the boys sleep wherever we could find a space 22:18 and the girls slept with the lady 22:19 we hired as a cook to cook food for them. 22:23 But it just kept growing and growing 22:24 and then became an obvious need 22:26 to have a proper place for them. 22:28 And through the Collegedale Church, 22:31 we were blessed to receive money 22:33 and help to get started on this building, 22:37 and today there are 80 children in the dormitory. 22:41 And most of them pay about 22:45 20%, 25% of what it cost us to keep them, 22:49 but that's as much as their families can pay 22:52 and so we depend on God to provide the rest. 22:56 So you have a girls' dormitory on one side, 22:59 boys' dormitory on the other, and a cafeteria in the middle? 23:02 That's correct. Yeah. Yes. 23:04 This building looks kind of unique? 23:07 Yeah, I have to thank you for this building. 23:10 It was you that inspired us to get into the media ministry, 23:15 and I went and met you up in Chiang Mai one time 23:18 and asked for the plans for the building. 23:20 You were building there, took them back to Siem Reap 23:23 and modified them a little bit, 23:25 and went ahead and build our own media center. 23:29 Wow. So this is a TV studio, offices, editing base? 23:32 Yeah, we record videos in here. 23:36 We translate E.G. White books here, 23:39 and we use it as our administrative office 23:42 as well for our ministry. 23:43 Oh, it's neat to see what's going on 23:45 and we want to see your family also. 23:47 So would you share with us 23:48 who these people are that we are looking at? 23:50 Yeah, this is my beautiful wife, Wendy. 23:53 Together with our granddaughter Clara 23:56 and Clara is the daughter of Caleb and Survan, 24:02 and here we have Shannon, 24:04 my younger son and his wife Sriya. 24:08 Sriya grew up in the orphanage 24:10 and she is now the director of the orphanage. 24:14 So she has a real good grasp on what it's like to live there, 24:18 and so she has real heart for the kids, 24:22 but she also understands the challenges 24:23 that the parents go through 24:25 because she gave them lots of challenges 24:26 what she would say. 24:30 Shannon developed a passion for pathfinders 24:33 as he was growing up, 24:34 eventually became leader of our local pathfinder club, 24:38 and the Cambodia Adventist mission 24:40 has appointed him as 24:41 honoree pathfinder leader for the country. 24:44 So I pay his salary 24:47 but about half of his time 24:48 is spent working on materials 24:50 to help advance pathfinders throughout Cambodia. 24:54 So you lived in that two storey house for 17 years. 24:57 Why would you ever want to leave? 24:59 The reason we chose the site for that two storey house 25:01 was it was a nice high piece of land, 25:04 but it had lots of termite hills on it, 25:07 and we flattened the termite hills 25:09 and built the house. 25:12 It took the termites 17 years to fight back, 25:15 but finally they managed to get into our house 25:19 and to eat out a number of the main columns 25:21 that held the house. 25:23 So there were four columns out of 12 25:24 that you could just pass your hand right through it. 25:27 Oh, boy! 25:28 And it was looking very unsafe 25:31 so we decided before it collapsed on us 25:33 that we would demolish it and we build a new home. 25:36 That's a really good idea. 25:39 And so this new home is made out of cement? 25:41 This is brick and cement and hopefully termite proof. 25:45 And it's a very unique kind of home. 25:48 Yeah, our community has changed in the last 22 years. 25:52 So from being extremely poor community 25:55 the town has grown up and grown out 25:58 and now reached us, 25:59 so we have middle class people living in our community 26:02 that had two storey houses with air conditioning 26:04 and cars parked in the garage. 26:07 So we decided that it was time 26:08 that we moved up with our community 26:12 and so we built something 26:14 that was more modern and easier to live in, 26:21 but we really wanted to have a place 26:24 where we just felt at peace. 26:27 And we both love the outdoors, 26:29 and so we decided we would build a house 26:31 that had the outdoors inside. 26:34 So we put large sky lights into the roof, 26:38 left a hole right in the middle of the roof 26:40 so that rain could come in 26:41 and then we built a garden down in the center of our house. 26:44 We have a fish pond and a water pool. 26:45 And a water pool, yeah. 26:46 Now you said your degree and university was... 26:49 In biology. 26:50 In biology, so that interest is coming back now. 26:53 That's right, yeah. 26:54 So what is it that's driving the economy of this area 26:57 that you are in? 26:59 We are about six miles from a very famous temple 27:02 called Angkor Wat. 27:03 Okay. 27:04 And tourist is streaming into Siem Reap to see 27:07 this 12th century temple. 27:11 And we get about two million plus 27:15 tourists a year coming into the city. 27:18 So, of course, that's a lot of money flowing into the city, 27:22 and that's spurring the growth and development of our city. 27:27 Well, Tim, I know that you have more stories to share. 27:30 Thank you for sharing with us, 27:32 and we would like to let you know 27:33 that we are doing another episode 27:35 with Tim to capture more of the stories 27:37 and specifically what God is challenging 27:40 Tim and Wendy with to reach out 27:41 to these tourists that are coming to their area. 27:44 I'll just let you know, it's called butterfly paradise, 27:46 and you won't want to miss 27:48 the pictures and video that are coming. 27:50 If you would like to be a part of this ministry, 27:53 please send your tax deductible love gifts to Jesus For Asia, 27:56 PO Box 1221, Collegedale, Tennessee 37315. 28:02 Call us at (423) 413-7321. 28:06 Or visit our website at Jesus4asia.org. 28:09 May God richly bless you 28:11 until we see you next time on Jesus for Asia Now. |
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