Church in Phnom Penh

My friend Lisa left this morning for Siem Reap where she’ll be exploring Angkor Wat the next couple days.  We initially wanted to go there as well, but we felt we needed to maintain our focus to meet with organizations and spend time with the people God placed and would place into our path,  so we stayed put in the city.

We were supposed to visit Fellowsihp of Hope’s Church service today but had some challenges getting in touch with our contact there.  So, we decided to visit our ELIC friend’s Church, which also happened to be the Church that a friend of a friend from Philly connected us to attends.  Not without detours and getting lost multiple times, Jenny and I wandered our way, way late because of our many detours, to Gospel Commission Fellowship Church.  The people God placed in front of us at Church was an unexpected blessing.  Jenny had an awesome conversation with a woman who had come as a pharmacist to serve His kingdom with that skillset.  Others we met were doing other things that were very encouraging for both of us to here and see.  Once again, when a door closes, it’s not without reason, and if we are just simply willing to step forward and roll with it, what an amazing journey it can be.  We made some friends, brothers and sisters that we hope to get to know more, partner with and serve together with in the future, through prayer and/or more tangible ways as well.

So last night, 10 minutes after we had decided to attend GCF Church, I get a phone call from our contact at Fellowship of Hope.  I felt bad telling them we weren’t going to attend their church because we promised others we’d go to another, but was happy to be able to meet them in the afternoon and drop off and watch their soccer games with the kids from TLC Centre and Harvest of Hope.  On our way to the soccer field, we of course had to stop at the Russian Market to eat this awesome noodle dish that we chomped on the day before… yum.