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Editorial June 2011 RECORDS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS U.S. Center for World Mission 1605 East Elizabeth Street Dear Praying Friends, Pasadena, CA 91104-2721 Tel: (626) 398-2249 Th ere are only 28 unreached [email protected] people groups in all of Cambodia MANAGING EDITOR (in contrast to the 43 in Texas). Keith Carey Many of these individual groups are small in size, but God has not ASSISTANT EDITOR Paula Fern forgotten about them. Th ey are precious in His sight. It is impor- WRITERS tant to pray for the Cambodian Glenn Culbertson Patricia Depew people groups this month because almost all of Cambodia’s Patti Ediger 15 million people in this relatively mono-ethnic country Chris Hansen are part of an unreached people group. Th ey remain faith- Wesley Kawato ful to the false gods who have dominated their lives for many Arlene Knickerbocker Esther Jerome-Dharmaraj centuries. Day after day this month you will be praying for Christopher Lane diff erent peoples who appease spirits that they believe will Annabeth Lewis protect them in times of danger. But what will the people Charles Newcombe Ted Proffi tt who fall into this trap do when the true Lord bares His arm Jeff Rockwell on the fi nal day and the time comes to meet their maker? It’s Jean Smith frightening to consider. Jane Sveska Nancy Watta Th is February as the writers are submitting their stories DAILY BIBLE COMMENTARIES about the Cambodian people to the Global Prayer Digest Dave Dougherty, Director of Plans (GPD), Cambodian and Th ai military forces have begun and Training, OMF Intl. fi ghting over their poorly defi ned border. Please pray for Keith Carey, Managing Editor, GPD the peoples of Cambodia this month. For those of you who CUSTOMER SERVICE would like to continue to pray for Cambodia, there is an ex- Dan Eddy, Alberta Cowell cellent prayer guide called, “Peoples of Cambodia.” Go to: GRAPHICS www.newhouseonline.com. Amanda Valloza In Christ, PRINTER Diversifi ed Printers , La Mirada, CA WEB SITE www.globalprayerdigest.org ISSN 1045-9731 Keith Carey, managing editor, GPD Contents of the Global Prayer Digest © 2011 U.S. Center for World Mission PS—Have you visited our web site yet? You can download 1605 East Elizabeth Street for free past and even current and future issues of the GPD. Pasadena, CA 91104 Go to: globalprayerdigest.org Contents of this booklet may be reproduced if appropriate credit and Th ere are also free podcasts for those of you who wish to subscription information are given. hear our daily entries on the web. We value your feedback on For subscription information, these new podcasts. Are they useful for your needs? You can call (626) 398-2249. get a free subscription to them at iTunes. Search for: Global For comments on content, call (626) 398-2241. Prayer Digest Cover photo: 2 ©iStockphoto.com/mikadx Feature of the Month Pray for the Kingdom of God to Extend to All Cambodian Peoples THAILAND LAOS CAMBODIA Phnom Penh VIETNAM Gulf of Thailand 3 To Help You Pray Better Cambodia: Moving Beyond the Killing Fields resent day Cambodia boasts a growing population of nearly 15 million people. Life for these people in the P last 30 years has been an enormous struggle to over- come multitudes of obstacles. Only in the last 10-15 years has —excerpts taken from any sense of normalcy been restored. True progress has been the Cambodia Prayer Guide, painfully slow as Cambodians try to pick their way through www.newhousesonline.com new minefi elds of corruption and exploitation in an eff ort to move forward. Today Cambodia is moving forward away from the “killing fi elds” of the 1970s towards a brighter future. But it will take spiritual and social transformation for healthy new bonds of trust to form. God loves the peoples of Cambodia. He has watched their families and cultures develop for ages. He knows every happy child and every worried parent. He knows every unemployed father and every abused mother. He loves every honest farmer and corrupt government offi cial. Jesus’ heart was broken with compassion when He saw the wandering masses of society (Matthew 9:36-38). He called His followers to join Him in compassion and in prayer to God for others. Th e fi rst step of obedience in becoming a blessing to the nations is having a broken heart that prays for the nations. Th at is the purpose of this prayer guide. A Brief History of Cambodia Cambodia’s heritage can be traced back to the rise of the Khmer Empire in the 9th Century. Th is empire built intri- cate irrigation systems and constructed gorgeous temples, including the Angkor Wat Temple complex, a fi nalist in the 2007 “New Seven Wonders of the World” contest. After this great empire was overthrown in the 14th Century, the Khmers endured a series of weak kings, internal rivalries, Continued on page 41 4 Background Become a Daily World Christian What is the Global Prayer Digest? Loose Change Adds Up! Th e Global Prayer Digest is a unique devotion- In adapting the Burma Plan to our culture, al booklet. Each day it gives a glimpse we have simply subsituted loose change of what God is doing around the world for rice and have added this educational and what still remains to be done. Daily and inspirational Global Prayer Digest. One prayer for that still-unfi nished task is at person’s loose change will average about the heart of the Adopt-A-People move- $100 per year exclusively for frontier mis- ment. Condensed missionary stories, sions! When the national goal of one mil- biblical challenges, urgent reports, and lion Adopt-A-People Prayer Partners is exciting descriptions of unreached peo- reached, that will mean $100 million more ples provide a digest of rich fuel for your per year for the frontiers! own times of prayer for the world. Become a Daily World Christian Th e Global Prayer Digest is a key tool in a Devotional Ideas movement to help fulfi ll Christ’s com- How can you make the most of this prayer digest: mission to make disciples of all the peo- ples of the earth. Th is movement involves • Some people use it as a a daily discipline of learning, praying, and supplement to their regular giving to help reach the world’s nearly devotional time. 10,000 unreached people groups. Un- • Others enjoy reading and reached peoples are those groups which praying around the dinner table do not yet have a strong church in their with the entire family. own cultural and social setting. • We encourage you to gather Myanmar, Mothers and the monthly with other Christ Frontier Fellowship Movement friends who are involved in this Th e Frontier Fellowship Movement movement. is an adaptation of a custom among • Join the “Frontier Fellowship tribal Christians in Burma (now called movement” (left), a version of Myanmar) and elsewhere. As the the Burma Plan, to fi nancially mother in each family prepares meals support frontier missions. for her family, she sets aside a hand- Every day at the top of the page ful of rice in a special container, and you’ll fi nd the name of an unreached prays for their church’s missionaries to people group for which to pray. Th e unreached people groups. Rice from small maps will help you locate the families in the church is sold to support day’s feature. their frontier missionaries. 5 Day 1 1 Timothy 4:8 Missionary Biography-Kreg and Jenny Mallow reg Mallow loves sports, but he loves Jesus even For physical training is of more. Born in Independence, Missouri, in 1962 some value, but godliness K to a Christian family, he was baptized at age 10. But has value for all things, he was in high school before he really committed his holding promise for both life to Jesus through the ministry of the Fellowship the present life and the life of Christian Athletes. Th ough he loved wrestling and to come. football, everything had to be under the lordship of All of us need physical training Jesus Christ now, even his love of sports. Th is new love for the Lord gave him the perspective he needed. if we are going to stay healthy. This is one of the key ways we In college Kreg graduated with a BS in business maintain our physical health. administration. Th en he studied dentistry at Loyola University Dental School in Chicago. Over the next But Paul makes it clear that couple of years Kreg felt God’s call to serve Him in godliness has eternal value mission. Mission conferences and short term mission which is even better! trips helped direct him. Th e Perspectives on the World Christian Movement course had a tremendous Pray that you will be able to impact on his life. (http://www.perspectives.org) maintain a balance between In 1989, Kreg volunteered his summer to work in a your physical and your Cambodian refugee camp in Th ailand. spiritual health. Thank the Lord for people like Kreg Mallow Later that same year, Kreg met Samphos, now who have found that balance. known as Jenny, at a Chicago church service. Th e next year they were married, and they began a ministry in Cambodia in 1991. Pray for the Lord to use the many short term mission trips this summer to reveal His perfect will to those who go.—KC 6 Day 2 Missionary Biography, Continued 1 Timothy 2:1-2 enny was born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in 1961, I urge you, fi rst of all, and was raised in a Buddhist family.