The Testimony of A BOY, KHI PHEAREAK
in OUDDOR MEANCHEY Province

A 12-year-old boy whose name's Khi Pheareak, who had been an orphan that his mother died by disease, and he lives with his old illness-father who is unable to go out for working to support his family. And both of them are living in a small old cottage, which is badly torn thatch roof and wall that is

located in O'Pi village, Anlong Veng commune, Anlong Veng district, Oddar Meanchey province. Sometimes, the nephew Pheareak has to sit down on his knees, shivering his jaws, naked body, with an old shorts, looking at his sickness father, who is skinny, with deep sunken eyes, and his lips were dry with bushy hair, and his body under an old blanket. In the back of nephew Pheareak, there was only porridge pot, which is mixed with rain water that comes down into for a half pot ready. Where the stoves and firewood are wet by the rain. As cold as the sky is darker, the black clouds are covered on the earth, and the rain fall is still continue without stopping, while the wind is still blowing the branches up and down that grow near the lonely cottage that is located in the huge rice-fields. The tree branches under the wind are moving up and Mixed with the scared thunderstorms and lightning.

Oddar Meanchey Province is a province in the northeastern part of Cambodia, bordering with Thailand: Borei Ram, Surin, and Sisaket, with a length of 224 km, dividing our land and Thai by mountains. Drift (no plains) with Thailand are mountainous, with only 5 check-point entrances: Chub Koki, Thmor Daun, O-Smatch, Chorm Sagnam, and Preah Prolay. Southern to Siem Reap Province - Eastern to Preah Vihear Province - Western to Banteay Meanchey Province, Oddar Meanchey Province, 439 km from Phnom Penh, Traveling along National Highway 6A and through Kandal Province, Kampong Cham and Continue through National Road #6 from Skun rlound-about through Kampong Thom, Siem Reap provinces to Kralanh district of Siem Reap, crossing road to the North direction on Road 68 to Oddar Meanchey Province. The population in Otdar Meanchey Province totaled 160,196, including 80,465 men and 79,731 females. The difference between the vast difference between men and women is in Chong Kal district. The number of women and men varying in Anlong Veng, Banteay Ampil, Samrong and Trapaing Prasat is quite small. The province has an area of 6,188 km2. Oddar Meanchey province has 4 districts and one town, including 286 villages, 24 communes:
1. Anlung Veng District
2. Banteay Ampil District
3. Chong Kal District
4. Trapaing Prasat District
5. Samraong Town

Due to the stomach problem, the boy, Khi Pheareak also decided to go to the villages to ask for work in the rice-fields to transplant rice seedlings from local villagers to get some money to buy food, take care of his father buying some medicines for him. It is not a high benefit for a small boy to be able to work in as a farmer working to transplant rice seedlings in the rice paddies. Because the weak child works less than the adult, so the boy, Khi Pheareak receives only a small part of his wages. The transplanting of rice is limited in the rainy season, only three to four months cannot last for a long time. One day, a boy Khi Pheareak walks in a track road, sometimes muddy places along the road, full of imagery on the problems that the boy facing many challenges, which are beyond his capacity. At that time, the boy Khi Pheareak was hit with a young man who was walking the same road. At the same time, the boy Khi Pheareak looked up to the young man, who was in adolescence, dressed as a teacher with a bag on his shoulder. Do not delay, the boy Khi Pheareak, raise his both arms to salute and beg for mercy pardon to the young man, and he says, "Brother, please forgive me, because I didn't look at you, and it made me to hit you, my brother." At that moment, the young man raised his right hand to reach the boy's left shoulder and fondle him, and said with softly speech: "Never mind boy, this is just an accident without desire, my dear small brother. What are you going to through big imagination so long?" Without hesitation, a boy Khi Pheareak's speech was with emotion and tears streaming down on his cheeks: "My dear brother, I'm going to ask for a job to get some money to buy some medicines for my father, who is sick lying in bed, my dear brother, I thank you for forgiving me, at this time I'm in a hurry, because I'm afraid of that I'm not in time to work in the rice-fields for transplanting rice seedlings at the end of the village, my dear brother." As soon as the young man heard the boy's speech, the man said to the boy, "Do you know and believe that there is a God who can heal the sick?" Then, the boy Khi Pheareak were happy and said, "I believe my brother, I believe, where that God is, I want that God to heal my father. Now, please, help me and my father, my dear brother!" If you really believe, let's go to your house right now!

When a young man came to his poor home, he found his father lying on the bamboo floor of an old house built up from the ground about two meters high. The young man went up to sit beside the boy Khi Pheareak's father, and saw his skin wrinkled with the bones, the eyes hollowed deeply, and his voice was so hoarse. The young man took his hand and the boy's hand, then called out, and cry out for the Lord who is the Helper, the Living God, the Almighty God, looks upon us, and opens His ears to hear our prayer to Him. And He reaches and stretches His hand to touch the uncle who is sick, the boy Khi Pheareak's father to be free from the sickness right now on, by the power of the Almighty God's hand. The young man's prayer lasted for about half an hour, sweeping his sweat, with a moaning voice and tears out, with a fervent prayer to Him to be healed and to forgive sin from him, and call this family into His flock, which is Jesus Christ, the Head Shepherd. This is the prayer of faith, as the Scripture says, “… If you have faith as a small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” (Matthew 17:20). As prayer continued, then heard the boy Khi Pheareak's father started to sweat, from top to bottom, and his body was shivering, and then he started to sit up and says, "Lord Jesus Christ, I am a sinner, Lord, forgive me of my sin, and I thank You, Lord, that You accept to receive me as your beloved son. I always gratitude You Lord all the time, there is only You is my Savior and heal me from sin!" Having seen the state of being healed and recovering from such an illness, the young man thanked the Lord Jesus Christ for His strong hand with His power to heal, and He shows the miracle for the people in this village that the Lord Jesus Christ is the true and eternal Son of God. He always cares for those who earnestly seek Him, as it is written in the Scriptures: “Therefore I tell you, whether you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours” (Mark 11:24). Later, the young man began to tell the boy Khi Pheareak's father that: "My name is Shinh, the evangelist of Jesus Christ, and has come to this village to preach the salvation of Jesus Christ and I met the boy Khi Pheareak, who told me that his father is sick who sleeps at home and he cannot get up, by hearing like this I and him were in a hurry to come here to pray to the Lord Jesus Christ to make the miracle healing your sickness to be recovered".

After that, the Evangelist then prepared the fire to cook porridge to give the child's father eating to recovery. Then, the evangelist continues to do the work of telling the Gospel to the boy's father and his son Khi Pheareak, to hear about the salvation through the booklet "Who Is God?" First of all, the evangelist asked the boy's father and the boy Khi Pheareak, how they had wondered who God is. According to the Bible, God lives forever and ever. The Bible tells us that God is the Creator of all things in the world. He made the stars and the trees, and all the trees, and all the birds in the air. There is nothing in this world that God did not create. After God created the creatures, God made man, the first man and the first woman, Adam and Eve. Then God put Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden He created. He told them that they could eat every kind of fruit in this garden, except a tree that they did not touch or eat. The tree is called the "tree of knowledge." If they eat that fruit, they will die. One time Satan came in the Garden of Eden. Satan is a bad angel, he hates God and all the good things that God has created. He wants to make everyone sad, suffering, and miserable. He does this by tempting us to sin. He deceived Eve into believing his lies, so that she could eat the forbidden fruit that God had forbidden to eat, and to give to her husband, Adam, and they both ate with together. Adam and Eve disobeyed God's commandments, so they were in great troubles. God knew that they had sinned and He was very distressed. Adam and Eve were separated from the garden. Since then, people have been in troubles. In the world there are wailing and fights. People try to kill each other more fiercely, even disobeying God. Sin has caused the world to have all kinds of troubles. Every time the brothers are fighting to one another, the fight is because of the sin. According to God's promise, He sent Jesus Christ as His Son to suffer and die on the Cross instead of our sinned. He has told us that if we trust Jesus, we will not die when our bodies die. He brings our souls to heaven with Him to have the eternal life. And one day Jesus Christ will come again, then we will receive a new body, and Jesus Christ will take away our sins from the world. There will be no more mourning and sorrow. People will love each other and love God perfectly. Only those who love and trust Jesus Christ can go there. Anyone who does not love Jesus Christ will be thrown into hell. If we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior and pray to Him, He will help us to obey Him, and when we obey Him, we will be more and happier. So do you uncle and brother Khi Pheareak believe and trust Jesus Christ? If you uncle and brother were never invited Him to come in you, then do you uncle and brother accept Him right now? If you uncle and brother are willing to accept Jesus Christ as the Savior for your own lives and pray for the following pattern, I pray: “"Oh, Lord Jesus, I've sinned and done many bad things, I did not love You properly, Forgive me of sin, and may You come to me. I accept You as my Savior and Lord in my life. I believe that You died to save me, May you help me to obey You for Your sake. Amen."”.
The End