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2023 January Updates

Updated by: Sreisros

Dear Supporters

Happy Lunar New Year! How are you doing? I pray that you and I will see God doing something new this year, guiding us and showing us what we should do. I ask that God will bring more faithful men and women to work in His field and strengthen our love, faith, and hope in Him. I also pray for God’s blessings and protection for our families, our friends, and co-labourers wherever we may be – in Cambodia, Singapore, and other parts of the world.

English School

I am happy that the school did well last year. Before we re-opened school on 2 January, there were several things teachers had to do:

Repair gate and electrical wire
Conduct class orientation at state school
Invite parents of new students to come for a briefing

We started the school year with a “start-up” week for 40 new students. We now have six classes with 96 students in total. The Year 2 classes have been regrouped to better help the students. Better performing students were put together in the same class while weaker students needing more help were put into smaller-sized classes. With this regrouping, we hope to teach more effectively according to the pace the students can go at and how best the students learn.

This year will be challenging for the teachers as we will have to think about teaching strategies that will work for the weaker students to help them learn.

Peam Sunday School

Every Sunday, we already have at least 70 – 80 students including our older students. There are still more students registering to join our Sunday School. We have started Sunday School classes. This month, the Sunday School lessons for the younger students were about God’s creation of heaven and earth from Genesis, John, and Psalms. The older students learned about how God cares for them. They learned that God loves them and they learned to thank God. Two older girls trained to be teacher assistants are helping us very well.

Kok Thmey Sunday School

I am happy that this year our supporters are able to help one more village – Kok Thmey Village. The Sunday School has 40 students. We use the same curriculum to teach them. Besides Sunday School, we are repairing the toilet in the church. It is about 60% done. Thank God for everything.

Thanksgiving for:

God’s protection to and from school
My children’s good health
My daughter starting her English class
Wonderful teamwork

Prayer Request:

Wisdom and strength
Building permission
Support for Pastor Bunnath at Kok Thmey church (Monthly support for 1 year)
Playground for children in Peam School grounds

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Jan 2022

Lovea Sunday School, Peam English School, Updates from Sreisros / janicetay23

Dear Supporters

I am happy to be writing my first letter for the new year. I hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas holiday. My family and I had a good time during Christmas, and we are all doing well.

I am grateful and appreciative of your support for the past year, and look forward to your continued support in the years ahead.

Preparation for English School

As you know, Love-A-Village team and I have been preparing the school.

Let me summarize what we have done thus far:

We had applied for the school renewal license, and have received verbal approval from the authorities
The Peam Primary School principal had identified 64 students for enrolment into our school
The textbooks for pupils and Teachers’ Instruction books have been printed
The classroom is now set up for classes to start
We have hired a teacher and an assistant teacher

There are a few things we need to get done before our school opens on 7 February:

Final touches to the classroom, e.g. decorations to the walls
Printing of Safe Management guide and School Rules and Regulations
Training the teachers to use the Teachers’ Instruction book
Meeting with students and their parents

All students, and their parents too, are very excited to attend our school.

Peam Sunday School Ministry

We had a great meeting with all Sunday School teachers from Peam village and Lovea village. We discussed and planned what we hope to do in 2022. We prayed together for sustained motivation to do God’s work.

The teachers have started using the new curriculum. Because of the Covid situation, our Sunday School has separated the children into 8 groups with each group having 16 to 20 children. The students come only on alternate weeks:

Groups 1 – 4 study in week 1 and 3
Groups 5 – 8 study in week 2 and 4

For both the English School and the Sunday School, I am so blessed to have wonderful people working with me. I pray that God will bring even more people to join us in our work to glorify His name.

Thanksgiving for: