Update Jan 2026 | Look back at 2025
Hey all,
We hope you’re doing fine and that the new year has started well for you. It’s hard to believe it’s nearly February already!
Here’s a little round up of what we’ve been doing the past few months, with a quick look back at 2025 (yes!, I got to write that year one last time). Looking back has been encouraging, especially when we consider what’s been accomplished and the good that has come out of it.
Office Staff
Meet our team! While not everyone is in the photo, most of us are here. These are the people who work behind the scenes to ensure the entire campus can function legally and effectively. As the administrative office, we serve as the vital link between our campus, the government, and the world.
We work together to ensure full compliance with all Cambodian Labour and NGO regulations, handle essential visa steps, and keep clear communication flowing across our campus. They are the backbone of our community; though they might not always be seen up front, they do crucial work.
Photo of the office team.
Campus Website
Pat’s been facilitating a team responsible for revamping the campus website. He’s thankful for the people he can work with, and after an initial 1 month sprint the foundation for the site is done. Now the team will keep chipping away at it alongside their regular schedule until it’s done.
Photo of Pat working with his tech team on the website.
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Border Conflict
YWAM from across Cambodia together with ‘Lydia Project’ and ‘fire and rain international’ have helped bring relief supplies to 4577 families (including 3256 kids) who were forced to leave their homes due to the conflict. These efforts are still ongoing so we still have teams going out to help serve.
Photo of Christmas gifts provided to school kids.
Pat Teaching
Pat’s also been teaching. He did a 5 day teaching at Kampot for a Discipleship Training School (DTS) on ‘Nature and Character of God’. This was a rich time for Pat. He’s never taught a 5 day teaching before or for DTS. He and the students were so happy they got to meet each other again when the campus held a youth camp called ‘Impuls’ for over a thousand youth. During Pats week of teaching one of the students told him
“Until now I was just coming but I didn’t really care but now I want to be here and do better.”
Recently he also taught in the School of Biblical Studies on the book of Job. This was a relevant book considering the Cambodia-Thai conflict that was intense at the time.
Photo of Pat teaching in Kampot DTS.
Family update
Den is seven years old and our youngest son is one. It has been a wild ride for us but it has also been a year of joy and growth. As new parents, we have been going through challenges on how to guide Den towards being a young man, in light of emotional and behavioural growth. This is also one of the reasons that Pheap is releasing one of her leadership roles so that she can focus more on the boys. Den is now attending a soccer team which he loves and it’s been helping him a lot, especially with working in a team.
As always, we are so grateful for all the love and support for our family. As much as possible we want to travel as a family for teaching or facilitating programs, we are really grateful for our ministry partners like you who pray for us and give to us so generously. You have been such a blessing to us and the people we are ministering to.
Photo of the family.
Prayer requests
Pheap is praying for wisdom and discernment on how her next season will be as she hopes to spend more time with kids. She likes to work a lot, and is asking for prayer while she tries to not be involved in the work as much.
Please pray for our family’s financial situation. Our family is bigger, the needs are increasing. Committed financial support is currently at 27% of our monthly budget which makes it hard for us to deal with emergencies, travel, attend different meetings, schooling, healthcare, etc.
We are looking at getting Pat Khmer citizenship and then working on getting Pheap’s Australian citizenship as well. We both need favour from the government and lots of money. Cambodian citizenship for Pat will cost roughly $1,000 USD (including getting documents, traveling to the Capital city) and Australian citizenship for Pheap would be about $9,365 AUD (excluding documents or services).
2025 overview
It’s good to look back and see what we accomplished together. There have been a lot of good things worth celebrating.
Raising up leaders: Pheap was proud to see 5 from Cambodia who persevered to graduate their masters degree in leadership.
Staff across Cambodia were encouraged to continue persevering for breakthrough through the national staff conference hosted here.
Impuls Youth Camp: Over a thousand youth came and grew in hunger for the Lord.
Cambodian-Thai border conflict: relief supplies brought to 4577 families (including 3256 kids) who were forced to leave their homes due to the conflict. These efforts are still ongoing so we still have teams going out to help serve.
Pheap taught through four books (tribal period) in 2 different Discipleship Bible Schools.
Pat taught ‘Nature and Character of God‘ for a Discipleship Training School, and the book of Job for a School of Biblical Studies.
Ongoing faithfulness in our roles of service in staff development, tech admin and legal admin.
Staff saw a vision impaired person have their sight restored, and a lame man be healed and walked. He put his faith in Jesus and got baptized right on the spot!
Pheap taught on learning styles in the ‘Titus Project’ which is a short project aimed at equipping bible school graduates to teach effectively. This year’s project saw:
– Participants went to 6 locations,
– 14 churches served with bible training.
– 673 people attended, and
– 37 People Decided to follow Jesus.Pheap also had the joy of working with a friend who brought excellent training on Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) for staff working with children at risk.
That’s it. Feel free to contact us. It encourages us when we hear from people who care about the journey we’re on.
Take Care,
Pat & Pheap.