Oct 10 2009

Home in Cambodia!

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Well, here it is. The long awaited update for our blogsite. We really should have gotten on this long ago, but alas, here we are. So Let’s catch you up with what’s been going on with the Myers Tribe the last two months

August 15th: Our family (along with Bee’s parents) made the trek from California out here to Battambang Cambodia to set up our new home. It was a great transition and we really enjoyed having Bee’s parents here with us for the move. It was good to have some more familiar faces for Oliver and Owen to see.

We were greeted in our new home by the base staff here in Battambang. What a great group of people God has allowed us to work with.

September: We hit the ground running here in Cambodia with Dane and Bee both helping out teaching with the School of Biblical Studies (SBS) staff training. We covered topics like, Preparing and Presenting You Lecture, Teaching to Different Learning Styles, and Reaching Oral Communicators. God has brought a great staff together for this SBS.

Bee also got to teach the book of Titus during the first week of the school, which started September 14th. She did a great job studying for and teaching this book to the 8 students that are in this school. We have 4 Khmer, 2 Americans, 1 Ukrainian and 1 Finnish. It’s a great group and they would love your prayers as this pour through the scriptures.

We were also able to visit Bee’s mom’s family in Thailand at the end of the month, including Bee’s brother. It was a great time to have our kids meet “Uncle A” And it’s good to know that we have family close by on this side of the world.

October: So far this month has been a used trying to settle in and allowing some stability for the kids. After traveling to 6 different places this year, we are really looking forward to allowing our kids, (and ourselves) to dig our roots in and unpack for the long term.

Part of this digging in includes language studies. We would love your prayers as we are spending our days studying Khmai and getting a few odd looks as we ask for the wrong thing at the market, or call people we meet “Grandma” instead of “Aunt”…oops. We are having a great time, but we would really like to be farther along than we are.

Prayer Points

1) Our transition: Please pray for our family, that we would really settle into Cambodia as our home. Especially pray for Oliver and Owen to get rooted here and have it feel like home.

2) Upcoming teachings: We have some teaching opportunities coming up and would love prayer for our preparing and teaching. Also pray for the students that we will be teaching, that God would use us to speak to them and that they would have changed lives. Also pray for us, that we would be changed and be living out the things we are teaching. Dane is teaching in the SBS at the end of the October, then both of us are in Phnom Penh for a week at the beginning of November teaching “Relationships” in the DTS there. In November, Dane is teaching 1st Timothy in the SBS here on the 25th, then we are off to Taiwan for a week where Dane is teaching Ezekiel there starting the 27th. Please pray for our travels and our time preparing, that God would multiply our hours.

3) Our language studies: That we would have wisdom when we study and just how to balance time studying and our kids.

4) Our family: For God to strengthen our marriage, that we would love and serve one another in a greater way, and that we would be the parents to Oliver and Owen that God has called us to be. That God would give us wisdom in loving and disciplining our two beautiful and energetic boys.

5) Relationships with people here: Both Khmai and foreigners, that we would be light and salt to those who don’t know Jesus, and encouragement and strength for those who do.

Thank you so much for your prayers.

May God bless you with grace and the knowledge of Him.

-The Myers Tribe

PS. Check out these links for our pictures on facebook!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=316114&id=651190617

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=316123&id=651190617&ref=mf

More to come….

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2 Responses to “Home in Cambodia!”

  1.   Athenaon 19 Oct 2009 at 9:02 pm

    Hey Myers,

    Glad to hear things are moving along in Cambodia! We’re all missing you here but praying for you. Hope you know you are loved from Taiwan!

    Athena

  2.   Ben and Angelaon 22 Oct 2009 at 12:15 pm

    Wow! You guys are going non-stop! We are so glad you are finally ‘home.’ We miss all four of you!!!! Love Ben and Ang

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