Our 30 weeks in Cambodia is quickly coming to an end. I have the daunting task of trying to sum up our trip in this last newsletter, which, is impossible.
Our dream of ministering the Gospel in the 10/40 Window (the least Christianized area in the world) became reality.
The area from 10-40 degrees north of the equator, which stretches from Northern Africa through to Japan is what we know as the 10/40 Window. It houses the least Christianized nations on the planet. It has long been a goal of mine to come here and tell people of what Jesus did for them 2000 yrs ago.
Cambodia’s population is 95% Buddhist (much of it nominal though), and Christianity is seen as the ‘white man’s religion’. But true Christianity has little to do with the form of religion expressed in many churches today. All religions of today are centered on pursuing something, while Christianity, in it’s most basic, pure form, is about what’s pursuing us………Jesus. It’s about a God who loved us so much that He forgave the awful things we have done to Him, and each other. Many have forgotten God, but He has not forgotten them.
Conversion to an alternate religion is not what the millions of Cambodians need. Their needs are the same as ours. To find a purpose, and a destiny that is ultimately fulfilled in knowing the God who was completely revealed to us in Jesus Christ. Jesus came so that we might know God. We take this message for granted in the Western World. In the 10/40 Window, it is a message that has not been fully heard. Millions wait for those who will abandon their lives to take up their cross and live in obedience to the final command Jesus gave us. Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. (Mark 16:15 nasb)
In regards to many Christians, many may have 20/20 vision, while only a few have 10/40 vision. Jenny & I happen to be part of the latter.
We eagerly await the next time we board a plane; set for departure, into a world almost devoid of Christian witness. The harvest is large, but there are few workers to gather it in. (Matthew 9:37 gnb)
Revelation 21:4 And He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes. There shall be no more death; there shall be no more mourning, or crying or pain; for the first things have passed away.
