Missionary conference in Phnom Penh
We returned from a fellowship with about 40 other United Methodist missionaries from the Asia/Pacific region during a conference in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Sponsored by GBGM, we gathered at the Goldiana Hotel from Thursday to Sunday (20-24 November 2008). Besides hearing from all the different countries and projects from Tonga to Mongolia and Japan to Thailand, we shared worship together, visited several project sites in Phnom Penh, and worshipped at the Tuol Kauk Methodist Church and school, an initiative of The Methodist Church in Singapore. Like so many developing countries, the mission effort in Cambodia has been divided between different international and sectarian interests. Missionaries from different agencies (UMC, Korean Methodist, Chinese Federation Methodist, and Singapore Methodist, had been working separately in Cambodia, often to the confusion of the local populace. At least now the Methodist mission has been coordinated into a single national effort - the Methodist Mis