Academy International Cambodia

The first week of September was devoted to moving, fixing and arranging furniture for Academy International Cambodia. We moved AIC to the same building with Cambodia Baptist Bible College and started school year 2006 – 07 last September 11 with a total of 34 students. This is the most we have ever had at AIC.

Missionary Retreat

Another treat for us during the month of August was the Asian Baptist Clearinghouse Missionary Retreat. All the missionaries using the services of ABC in Cambodia, except those who were on furlough gathered for 3 days at the seaside city of Sihanoukville for spiritual refreshment and fellowship. Missionary veterans, Rev. Lloyd Baker and Rev. Paul Byars brought very much needed and to-the-point messages from God’s Word that warmed and encouraged everyone in attendance. The missionaries have drawn deep from the experiences of these precious Men of God, they went home to their respective places of service with a sense of being refreshed and better focused on the tasks and trials each was facing.

Evangelistic Camp

From August 16-18, we had our very first joint Evangelistic Camp. We were all thrilled to have seen 831 people gathered at the Rawlings Institute Campsite. This is a unique camp as about 65% of the participants were unbelievers some of which have never ever heard the Gospel from anyone before. Needless to say, we have run into some difficulties as we were prepared for a maximum of 600 campers only. However, the difficulties vanished when we saw over 300 souls saved and over 100 baptized at the camp swimming pool. We can not express our appreciation enough for the efforts and labor of love done by our friends from Community Baptist Church in Pasig City, Philippines under the leadership of Pastor Greg Lyons in helping us both in the preparations and in the actual execution of the programs during the camp.

Youth Camp 2006

The Annual National Youth Camp last August 9-12 was attended by about 380 young people from different churches. The speakers at the camp challenged the young people with the theme of "Cambodia for Christ". Many souls were saved and many young people committed their life to be faithful in serving the Lord through their home churches while many others surrendered to go to Bible College.