In our house church is a lovely older Australian lady called Marion. Marion is like a mother to Graham and I and a grandmother to our children. For while we are away from Australia, from my own very special mother and father, Marion provides the home cooking and wisdom of a parent.
Marion started the Cambodian Harvest Dried Fruit Company and employs land mine victims. http://www.reversethecurse-cambodia.com/ Marion disciples her workers, leading bible studies and running a church. Her heart for the Lord is an inspiration to me. Marion witnesses God's miraculous work amongst her staff regularly and shares on occasion testimonies of His work in their lives.
Last week Marion shared the Testimony of Soeurn. I have included his testimony below as shared to me from Marion via email. His testimony is but a small testament to the amazing work that God is doing amongst his people here.
I pray that you too are encouraged as you read, not only by the testimony of Soeurn, but by the example of the Lords' servant, Marion.
" Soeurn has been working for us for four years and is a land mine survivor. He has always had a problem trusting God with money matters, although he is doing much better financially than most of the others. Since he became a Christian his farm & cattle have thrived, be has built himself a proper wooden house for his family & bought a new motorbike a couple of years ago. We featured him in a documentary a few years ago as one of the most improved family situations among our survivors. However he was always moaning about not having enough money.
On April 10th, when he was hit in the index finger as a passenger on a staff moto, returning from the baptism we held at the farm, he was taken to the Russian Hospital where the treatment was shocking. They told him if the finger went black in 3 days they would amputate it. The finger was put in a bamboo half splint & the lacerations were not stitched. He was sent home with IV antibiotics for another clinic to dispense at home in the province over the 6 day public holiday. When he returned he was in great pain & his finger was badly infected & he had let out the puss himself with a needle. We took him to a proper hospital & the bone was not even straight & set, but still overlapping at the break.
The negotiations for compensation for the injury with the banana seller resulted in only $60 compensation. He was inclined to have the finger amputated & not spend the $280 for the surgery to set the bone with a metal rod to keep it stable & stitch up the lacerations. However, after prayer he agreed to have it done.
When the finger healed enough & it was clear that he would have full use of it eventually & a skin graft was recommended. This was to cost $480. He was so worried about how to pay for that & his wife still wanted an amputation so he could come back to work quickly & not lose any wages. We gave him 2 weeks holiday pay & a week sick leave & then put him on gate duty so that he could work as security & open & shut the gate, & so keep working.
On the night before the skin graft surgery he had a dream. Jesus appeared to him & walked him through a hospital where people assured him his finger would be perfectly healed. Jesus promised that it would not cost him anything because he could trust Jesus to supply everything he needed. On the following morning, another patient sat next to him as he was waiting & encouraged him not to worry about the money & trust God, as that man was a Christian too. Next a nurse told him the same, just to relax and trust God as Jesus had promised him to never leave him. After the surgery, when he met with the doctor, the doctor told him he was a Christian & he would give him the operation for free! Soeurn walked out no owing anything! He is overwhelmed with the love & blessing of God.
It took all this to teach Soeurn how to trust God for finances, so he can see that God can turn every bad situation into good. He is well on the way to recovery, with full use of his finger."
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