Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Kraviek Village

I am so excited. Several days ago I was able to take a second trip to visit a remote village in Kampong Speu province.  What a privilege. This time my friends and I visited the village of Kraviek.  It is the last village you come to on a road that dead ends into the Cardamom Mountains.  The road actually turns into a more of a cow/moto path for the last 3 miles.  It has river crossings and many places that have experienced their fair share of erosion.  Nonetheless, we made it there and spent about 20 hours meeting villagers, playing volleyball (a huge sport in most every community here), handing out prenatal vitamins to women who were pregnant or nursing and bringing Christian tracts to almost everyone of the 60 families in the village.  It was an absolute pleasure to spend some time with these wonderful people and I look forward to going back.
One of the most exciting aspects of our trip was that we were able to share the Gospel with one of the patriarchs of the village.  He was a bit confused at first, as he wondered if he needed Christ with his ancestral worship and Buddhist traditions. We assured him that Christ was all he needed and he seemed to understand although not totally accept it yet. As one of the few in the village that can read, we also asked him to help the others in the village to read the tracts.  The tracts are fun and colorful with many pictures so no matter what the content they are eagerly accepted and poured over by everyone in the village, but how awesome to think that so many are having their first exposure to the Word of God.   I am humbled and thrilled to have been a part of it.
As my friend and I plan to make future trips to Kraviek, please pray as we seek the leading of God as to how to best serve these wonderful people.


Main Street entering Kraviek

Home of the village chief.  I slept on the upstairs porch.

Our host while we were there.  This is the man we shared Christ with.

Chores!

This was a sweet older lady in the village. She could only say that she was older than 90.

Some of the moms we gave vitamins to.

This baby was 1 day old when we were there.

Some sweet kids.


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