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Sunrise Quarterly Report
Q4 2016
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A great thanks from Sunrise, Cambodia!
Dear all, brothers and sisters in Jesus,
Thank God for everything through this quarter again,all the way to the end of the year of 2016. His hands are touching and warming us day by day!Another year passed with His generosityand grace. Through all your kindsupport, we can stand here for Him!
We would like to give thanksto the Lord who ledus to another maturity level and made us different from the world for His works and kingdom.
Most people want to make their lives happy with modern and high class living, having close relationships with high officials of government to get power. On the other hand, Sunrise has opportunities to get close to the poor to daily see and help their hard lives without tiring. God has usedtheir situations to encourage all of us in our living also.
Through the stories below, we hope you all would be blessed. Your donation is so important for God's ministry.
With gratefulness and deep appreciation,
Darany Hang, Sunrise program director Susan Smith, InnerChange
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Children’s Education Program:
A Teacher:
I’m Mrs. OumThavy, the 8th gradeKhmer literature teacher of RoeunSreyPheak at ToulVihear Junior HighSchool.
I’m so proud of SreyPheak, who wassupported by Sunrise this year.
Mr. Chhun a Sunrise staff, has followedup on her progress by visiting memonthly, and Sunrise paid for her extralearning fees.
I have noted that SreyPheak is gainingdiscipline and studies hard in the class,so that her educational result isincreasing devel-opment.
I’m so excited that Sunrise is providing this service for the poor children in our community tohelp solve their daily problems and decrease their neediness.
I would just like to say thank you to Sunrise: and its staff and also its donors. I wish all of youhaving good health, blessings, and success in all for continuing your generous deeds for morechildren!
A School Administrator:
Hello! I’m KeoPhalla, a male teacher of Khmer literature and also a vice-director of ToulVihear Junior High School.
I would like to say thanks to Sunrise org. and all of its donors for supporting children’seducation, and for having Mr. ChravChhun as a children’s assistant. He has been workingso well, has great relationships with our teachers, and regularly pays for the extra learningfees. He has followed up the children well and helps them to have the kind of character thatmotivates them to be good students and study hard in class. I’ve found that their educationallevel is developing from one step to the next! I also appreciate to what you are doing in ourcommunities and how you act with kindness. Wishing you a big blessing; please continue yourgreat activities!
Children Education: School Year Opening
It’s October again and our child clients are starting their school year. Sunrise has beenproviding school uniforms and school materials yearly, but last year we had a specialgathering with activities such as games, rewards for the hard-studying students, and a mealtogether. To update this children’s project and to increase interest on the part of the parents,this year we have invited all of them to come celebrate their children’s education. While wewere gathered, we asked them (both the children and the parents) to provide comments andfeedback on the program. (Most of them asked for more support or asked for a trip together.)
While everyone was waiting for the meal, we had the opportunity to share with them God’smessage. They heard from Mark 10:13-16 telling about God’s love for children and Ephesians6:1-4. Verses 1-3 telling the children to obey their parents to receive blessings in their livesand verse 4 telling their parents to love their children and give them advices in good waysaccording to God’s heart.
Home- Based Care client:
YiaNy’s family has already shared some of their story in previous reports. They have received various kinds of help through our home- based care service such as: repairing their home, food and rice support, and children’s educational support. This update tells about their family income increasing via a small business loan from Sunrise.
In the past Mr.YiaNy used to go elsewhere to find a job to help support his family. He even went to Phnom Penh to work as a labourer there, but because of his health condition he could not bear up under the hard work. So he would have to return home. This cycle repeated many times. This is not a surprise: many of our clients are in the same situation in their lives, so we can’t leave them or unenrolled them from our program even if they look healthy.
At home, this family had a job hand-making cigarettes. This work was inconsistent and their pay was decreasing because there were plenty of people who wanted this work. So it could not provide enough income for their family. Now they can earn more fund from their small shop which they begin with a loan from Sunrise. They will be more able to stand alone and provide for themselves with this shop. Plus, they can still roll the cigarettes in between customers!
The whole family looked happy while we visited, and they are especially happy that they can all live together and not be separated. They were making soup and fried chicken wings to add to their products to sell. They’ve also been enjoying going to church each Sunday with a bright mood!!
Special gifts for Christmas:
We had a special blessed event for 30 families (56 participants) in our home-based care service. It was the first and last time for this event. On behalf of Sunrise and all of our clients, I would say great thanks to Ratanak organization. Through them, we have been so blessed for many years they supported this work.
This special and wonderful event for our clients blessed them during this great season of God’s birth. With the fund approved from Ratanak, we prepared many kinds of dried or preserved food and rice for the clients as the last support from this organization. We gave it to them as a Christmas gift to them just once.
Before sharing those physical gifts, I took a little time to say some good bye from Ratanak, then shared about the meaning of the word “Noel” and the real reason for the gifts as symbols of God’s love for the world, an intangible gift for their hearts.
Our talk went something like this: Since the beginning of the most glorious creation of God… we’ve chosen punishment and separation from the most high. We’ve lost our way to go back to Him. We’ve seen our ancestors trying to do good things to help find God, but it’s useless because it’s not about balance between our good deeds and our bad deeds as sinners. Only Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life for us. He was sent to give His life in exchange for our punishment on the cross and set us free from our sin… We continued on to reflect the way that Jesus was humble in His life, and consider His heart of love and mercy to poor people like us, especially, people like our clients. Jesus is a most precious gift to this world, and this is why people always have gifts given each other during Christmas season to remember Him.
At last, as a testimony to other clients, Mrs.ReaksmeyMeas shared her life story and how God called her to believe in Him. When she was small, her family believed in Jesus, all except her: she didn’t care about faith at all because she was so young.
One day, she was kidnapped by a military officer to be his wife. He took her to live far away in Pailin province, near the border of Thailand. Living there, she was so scared of her husband because he had a nasty habit. He frequently threatened her and spoke roughly to her. She was afraid of him. Then she started praying to God, “God, if you are real! Please help me with this man, I’m so frightened…Please make him have pity on me and take me back to my family, Lord!”
After few days, she got rough speech from that man again. She replied to him with boldness spontaneously, “Man, if you don’t love me why did you force me here? Take me home to my family, for I don’t want to live here!” It was so strange to him to hear her reply and he wondered why she was so courageous. Not so long after, the man did bring her back to her family. He asked for forgiveness from them and expressed his willingness to take the responsibility of being her husband.Mrs.ReaksmeyMeas went on telling about her life, she told about many problems and how many times she wanted to kill herself, but each time, all the way until the present, God has always been there with her to face those situations and keep her going. Thank God for her passionate speech and courage!!
I don’t always feel like I’m talented at sharing the gospel powerfully, but I just have a heart for Him. Blessed be our God!
Darany,
Sunrise director
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Living assistance and repairing activities:
This is Mrs. Sothea’s broken house. This is Mrs. Sothea’s house after repairing
This is Mr. Poum Mai’s broken house. This is Mr. Poum Mai’s house after repairing
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Peace lessons student class:
Hello! My name is Om KongKia, a male prisoner and one of the peace lesson class students.
I’m 27 years old this year and my home is in Psar Chas village, Memot district, TbongKhmom province. I left school after grade 7 at Bun Rany Hun Sen Junior High School.
My father is a taxi driver and my mother is a farmer. We have three siblings in my family and I’m the oldest of the three.
I was sentenced in a case of drug using and selling, and I will be in prison for 2 years.
In my life, I’m a temperamental person and did not obey my parents. I liked immoral activities and joined with some gangs to provoke violent attacks on others in the village. And I skipped school most of the time.
One day, a friend in my class led me to a drug sharing place then persuaded me to try it for free.
I began to using drugs again and again until I became a drug addict at 18 years old. I started stealing money from my family to use drugs. After I could not steal anything else in my home I became a drug seller. Then I was arrested by the police on 16-Nov-2015.
In the beginning of my time here in this prison I met many difficulties that were so new for me. I did not have enough food to eat, no proper place to sleep, I could not say anything wanted, I just kept quiet.
My family has not been to visit me. It was hard for both my heart and flesh. My life was boring and despairing day by day, and so lonely. Later, I heard from a cell mate who had studied in peace lessons class and about Jesus, he told me that it’s good and important lessons in life, so I decided to ask the prison staff to join in this class with others.
Now I have had some lessons and I’m aware that my previous life was dangerous and filled with darkness.
It’s only Sunrise which gave this service to renew my life through these lessons such as: Domestic Violence, Sources of Conflict, Forgiveness and the Love of God.
From now on, I decide to change—to help my family and be a good guy in my community. May the Lord help me to stop using and sharing drugs anymore and to follow Him in all my life!
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Prayer Requests
Please pray for:
-Staff and clients’ health & safety during hard periods of weather with rain. During this season we can get very wet during travel, maybe cold, and the roads are not safe. The prison won’t allow the prisoners out of their cells for any programs when it is raining.
-Keep asking God to bless us with more power, love, joy, peace, patience and wisdom in working together.
-Continue to pray for all of our staff they are discouraged to hear Ratanak will stop funding its projects by the end of this year. Our other donor is sun setting because they have given away all their funds.
-Thanks God that we have received some blessings from a new donor even though it’s not enough for the whole program. Please continue to pray more for the other donors whom we have applied and we need to find other groups to receive our proposal too.
-Pray for Mr.Dara, he is a Peace Tasks trainer and he would like to quit working forSunrise by the first quarter of 2017. Pray for Mr.Chhorn who is working as a PeaceTasks Assistant to have a real gift for this new job of his.
-Continue to pray for God to show us for the real needs in our society for next year’sproject (2017), as we are learning and doing a little research with another organizationwho is working on the issue of diabetes.
-Continue to pray for more opportunities to share about God. Pray also about cults whohave stolen the sheep in many areas where we work.
-Pray for our leaders Susan, Mark and Sue for wisdom and good health and to haveenough time to help Sunrise with all its needs.
-Thank God for the new prison director Mr. Hun Khei who has good relationship withSunrise now, please continue to pray for him more for being open minded and to be agood person in charge of the prison.
-Pray more for the prison that now built an altar with a big statue of Buddha for theprisoners to worship, and they made it right in front of the medical clinic where theprisoners come to wait a turn for medical care.
-Pray for training opportunities for our staff. We would like to do the followingtrainings:
O Vision & Mission of Sunrise going forward
O Helping those who have experienced grief and trauma
OFurther training on M&E methodology
O Planning Cycle…
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The charts on the following pages are prepared for certain components of the Sunrise program to meet the requirements of one donor for monitoring and evaluation. Please enjoy them if you wish.
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Learning, Improvement & Holistic Impact
butsufficient food is able toreduce the numbness. / term, or if this program exists to
help prisoners with acute needs
recover their health and leave
our feeding program.
N/A / -We have had no time for
gospel lessons during meals this quarter because there are many sick prisoners in the clinic. / -Finding more time carefully
for sharing God’s message.
Home-based care program:
-The season still be changed
from rainy season to a bit cold
weather that still keep
continuing. Many illnesses
such as head colds are serious
threats for people with HIV.
We have helped care for these
problems quickly while they
are still manageable. / N/A / N/A
-We have follow up a family
we had solve a problem with
domestic violence in previous
quarter and he has been doing
well now.
-We have help counselling a
patient’s child boy, he want to
stop going to school and now
he’s doing well. / N/A / -We will continue to follow up
them.
-We have found time to meet
with the clients whom believe
in God for more explanation
(basic discipleship). / -A few of them have no time to
go to church because they work
7 days a week. / -We will continue to follow up
them.
Education program:
-Chhun has had discussions with the teachers about how he can get the tracking book information this new schoolyear /
-The school year started in October but many teachers only started recording the
children’s education information
in the tracking book in December. / N/A
-Chhun has solved a boy’s
problem on time by cooperating
with the holistic staff, when the
child did want to stop going to
school. / -N/A / -Chhun will continue to follow up him.
Infant formula program:
-Our staff got the guide book from AFH staff that is currently being used for HIV+ clients.
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-The Health Ministry & guidebook has been encouraging their agents (medical & social work professionals like us) to follow the National Guidelines that say HIV mothers should be
breast-feeding their babies. /
The government staff started to advice our clients and mothers with HIV to breast-feed their babies. A few started to do this and we found out their infants were safe—they did not become HIV+. So our staff decided not to receive any new babies into the infant formula program. This project will be finished by next quarter.