End of the Year Report12/8/2017 Location Summary As a pioneering location we're just coming up on our 2nd year. On average we've operated as a team of 13 staff made up of 10 foreign and 3 national workers. If I could summarize I would say over the last year we've had 3 main focuses. 1. Grow our YDC and see it bear fruit Starting a Youth Development Center was the primary goal we set as we began to pioneer 2 years ago. We succeeded in this but although we had 3 quarters of over 50 students our weekly evangelistic community night was averaging around 5, and none of them really showed much interest in spiritual matters. This year however has been a whole other story. Just last month we had over 150 students enrolled, averaged around 70 attending our community night, saw 60 respond to the gospel, around 20 or so make solid commitments to Jesus, while around 8 began basic discipleship. 2. Expand our Base & Structure As we started the year we quickly realized our current location and leadership structure were inadequate. As our lease came to a close God miraculously provided another location with the perfect amount of space for the price we wanted. It was a brand new building so we were able to customize some of the rooms to our specific needs. Downstairs there are 4 classrooms, a large open space living area/classroom, and a big kitchen. The 2nd floor has 7 bedrooms and an office, and the 3rd floor is just finishing with the roof where we'll be able to have large open air meetings as well as hang laundry, exercise, and create a space for a prayer room. Along with all the space we saw the need to clarify roles. We broke overall leadership into 2 areas.
3. Vision for City Wide Transformation We've carried since day one a vision to see whatever we accomplish bring radical change in the next 10 years to every sphere of society in our city. Our influence, network, and reputation grew exponentially this year. After our base leaders Facebook went viral we saw the relationships we had with leaders in our city going viral as well. The head of immigration, people all over the city, casino owners, church, education, and business leaders are now coming together around a united vision to work towards developing our city into a place of human flourishing. Highlight I think the highlight for us this year would be seeing our khmer staff stepping up and leading out in sharing the gospel in our Community Night meeting. His preaching was what began to turn the youth hearts towards God. You can read his testimony below. Testimony Hello everyone my name is Ramon and I am 21 years old. I just finished the School of ministry Development and am getting ready to co-lead our first DTS in January. In my 6 months of studying and working here in the SOMD I've grown a lot spiritually. It's given me boldness, taught me to be a patient servant leader, and given me a platform to share the gospel with the students in our Youth Development Center (YDC). When I first spoke about God in our YDC He began to do a miracle in the hearts of our students. As I finished explaining about the love that Jesus has for them over 60 students responded asking Jesus to be their savior and receiving a bible. It was then that I was filled with hope for the future of what God would continue to do through my life. I firmly believe that the influence of the gospel of Jesus will continue to spread from our base into our city. God is telling me that it's the time for gathering the harvest in the city of Poipet and I'm excited for what's ahead. - Ramorn Try
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AuthorMy name's Uriah Lyford and I'm a volunteer with YWAM. My dream is to see the spiritual solution of a restored relationship with God through Jesus be made available to every person on earth. I do this through the mentoring and training of young people to build and become the Church Jesus died for. Archives
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