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purpose in

missions?

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do

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hope

to

accomplish

on the mission

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briefly in

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form

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te rms mos t nearly

describes

your

missionary status?

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Reader

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ministry Radio follow-up

Chris tian Service Camp

Linguistics Maintenance of

Pilot

Radio

mission equipment M a in te nanc e B enevo len t

Off ice

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Christian literature

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he held in

th e

local church?

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d o e s h e

n o w d o ?

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m a i d e n n a m e

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n am e

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Street

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State Zi p

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th e

h o m e

What leadership

positions

or

Christian

service

ha s

sh e

rendered

to

th e

local

church?

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in

mission work?

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so , please

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n a me s, l oc at io n, k in sh ip

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explanation

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and

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state Zip

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from

th e elders

In

your sponsoring churches which will encourage other

churchestosupportyourmissionary work.

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words

of these

elders will help

to

convince

others

regarding

th e

worthiness

of

your mission

work.

Please

help

MSA

to spread your news through

HORIZONS by

sending these elders letters

from

your sponsor ing

churches

as

soon

as

possible.

MSA will

be happy

to

help

you

contact

these elders if you will send the full

addresses of t h e c h ur ch es .

Please sketch a map directing visitors to your location on the mission field

Recommendations

by

Christian Leaders:

(List names

her e and enclose

a

copy

of each letter.)

Name :

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St ree t

City: C.//V

Tf

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ame

umber

Street

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ing l Divorced Widowed

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complete name of your

husband

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maiden name of your wife

Date of marriage 2^

,

(9 ^ Where married /


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previous Christian

service and what service

you

did as a brief career

summary.

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approximate dates:

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L o c a t i o n

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of

years

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and

date

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honorary

degrees

n ry JL

ha t

influenced

you

to become

a

missio

What

is

your purpose

in

missions?

f i e l d?

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own

explanation in some detail might be influential in leading

others

into full-time

service.

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do you hope to accomplish on th e

mission

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in outline form th e nature of your daily duties on th e field:

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Which of th e following terms

most

nearly descr ibes your missionary status?

Evangelist Bible College Teacher

Bible Reader

Public School Teacher Pilot

H o m e m a k e r

D o c to r N u rs e Socia l W o r k e r

Music

T e a c h e r R a d i o

ministry Radio follow-up Chris tian Service Camp Linguistics Maintenance of

mission

equipment M a i n t e n a n c e

Correspondence Courses

Evangelism Name

other:

B e n e v o l e n t

Languages you

know fluent/non-fluent

Off ic e Wo rk

P r o d u c t i o n of

Bible

Production

of

Christian

literature

In th e

National Language

Village


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P A R E N T S

Father s

name

and his

home

address: K^O

First - Middle Last name

Living

Deceased Number Street

City State Zip Phone

His occupation i Is he a Christian? Yes No

_l.

What positions of leadership

has

he held in the local

church?

What Chris tian service

does

he now do?

M o t h e r s full m a i d e n n a m e

First

Middle

Last name

Living

Deceased Number

Street

nity

, State Zip Phone

Is

she

a

Christian? Yes No Her

occupation if

employed

outside

th e

h o m e

,

What

leadership positions or

Christian

service

has

she

rendered

to

the

local church?

Do

you have

relatives in

mission work? Yes

No

If so, p lease list their names, locat ion, kinship

and

details on a separate sheet with a brief explanation of their

missionary

activity.

FORWARDING AGENT: o 7

Name /leeg/ecZ.

(Pir i

T

Middle

Last name. It applicable, listbdftiMr. and

Mrs.

fullnamK.) ^

Number and Street

iO/ ,

City

Q/A/q/V/V/^rf

State

Zip

Phone lOp.A

Where

attend church?

OF-

Full

name

ol

church

Number

Street

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The Palolo Valley Church of Christ Honolulu Hawaii

Charles C. Luttrell and Dennis Oertel missionary ministers

have had a unique opportunity to

in recent weeks to aid

in

world wide evangelism.

They

have sponsored Sokun

Nhem

his

yjxiQ

Mala

sind infant son Samuel

as

Cambodian

immigrants.

Sokun

and

his

wffe f led

the

Communists in Cambodia

after seeing their family

members

killed and

suffering

many

other

hardships.

Sokun has

been

a Christ ian

for

seven

years

and while s t i l l in his

own country

he went to a Bible Inst i

tute and had his own congregation where he preached winning

many to the Lord.

He

arrived in

the

Khao y dang refugee

camp

on the Thailand

border

on November 21 1979 He immediately

began to teach the word and soon had a host of believers.

The

U.N.

bu i l t

a

ibhatched ro of b uild in g where there

were soon

30 000 worshipers meeting on Sundays with

choirs

special

musical

n\imbers

using

a

piano orgaji guitars .

They also

provided a tank for baptisms.

Friends

of the Lut t re l l s Georgia

and

Somchai

Panya

wrote

to

the

Luttre l ls on

May

13.

1980

We

a re w ritin g

with

an

urgent

request not for ousselves but for Nhem Sokun a Cambodian

refugee.

He is

the

leader

of the non denominational

Christian

Church

a t

th e Khao y dang camp

where we work.

Many denominat ional

people t r y to

give

him

money to t ake

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mainly

because

of him

t h a t over 1 500 have

been

baptized into

J e s u s

s i n c e January.

He

i s i n danger f o r

h i s

l i f e because

t h e

Buddhis ts

e s p e c i a l l y t h e

m i l i t a r y

who c o n t r o l t h e camp

d o n t l i k e t o see so many

become

C h r i s t i a n s and they th in k

if

he

i s e l i m i n a t e d

t h e

church would end. R e a l l y he

has

trained

y y leaders

and

there i s

no

danger to the church

but

t o him. . . H i s dream i s

t o

s t u d y i n a n n o n - d e n o m i n a t i o n a l B i b l e

College and then r e t u r n as an American

c i t i z e n

to teach

Cambodians

h e r e . . . C a n

he come and h e l p

you i n

y o u r work?

The church

agreed

to sponsor him and h i s family and a f t e r

much paper work they arr ived Qn November

26. In the in terim

Georgia

and Somchai had moved t o C i n c i n n a t i

where

Somchai

i s

at tending

Bible

College

and doing

Burmese

t s a n s l a t i o n

work

while

Georgia

i s working

with Asian

refugees

t h e r e . They

arranged

with IDES

and with

Lavdrne Morse

f o r

the Nhems

to

go

t o

C i n c i n n a t i

B i b l e College

and

t o begin

a

t a p e

m i n i s t r y

f o r

Cajnbodians

around the

world. So

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water tank donated by

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United Nations for

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baptismal pool

insi^the

camp

(See article

by Delmar

Debault in

IDES Newsletter, 19^)

In May and June, 1980, Vietnamese Communist forces lauirched a

massive attackacrossthe

border

intoThailand. Therefugee/amps In

Thailand were one of their primary targets. Hundreds of pepple were

killed or

Injured.

However,

the

Thai Army

and

Air Force

drove back theômmunlst

Invaders with aid

from the

United States. The Chinese C^munlsts on

th e nor th of Vietnam also put pressure against the Rdsslan-backed

Vietnamese

Communists.

Abalance

of

power brou^t respite to the

hundreds

of

thousands

of

Cambodian

refugee survivOTs in th e Khao-I-

Dang and

other

camps in Thailand. However, rugee aid groups

became

very restricted

In what they could do to help^he U.S. andother

Free World governments sought to hasten

ê

resettlement

of

Cambodian refugees

In

count ries where

sponsorship could be

obta ined.

Somchal and Georgia Panya, having had

têave

the refugee-camp

area In Thailand about t h e t ime of t he Vie tnamese Communi st Invasion,

returned

to

the

U.S.A. They

arranged

with

me

Palolo Valley

Church

of

Christ in Honolulu, Hawaii,

to

sponsorPauôkun Nhem and his family.

In

November,

1980,

the great moment

cê. Paul

and Mala and

their

so n

Samuel were escorted to a giant

jetmer

in Bangkok,

Thailand,

an d

in a few

hours they

were thousands of miles away in America.

America,

t he Land of th e Free America, a

land

where sufferings such

as

th e

Cambodian

Holocaust

s eemed so

away

that many people thought

such

suffering simply could

notbe/ruel

Today, Paul

Sokun

Nhem is enroled InCincinnati Bible College.

The

.

Cincinnati Bible Seminary

ha s

granted him a full-tuition

scholarship,r

and

he Is studying faithfully to/prepare for more

effective

Christian

service.

At

the

same

time,

he

h

a burning desire

and passion

to

do

all

he can tohelpthe Cambodianpeople according tothe will ofGod and to

th e glory

of God.

International Disaster

Emergency Services,

together

with Cincinnati

Bible Seminary,

has hemed

Paul

Sokun

Nhem to

laun ch th e

Cambodian Chris tian

Semces.

Working closely to advise him ar e

Professor LaVerne

Morsôf C.B.S., and Somchal

and

Georgia

Panya.

Cambodian Christian

services

ha s

th e following

objectives:

(1) To

help American Chr is ti ans and churches to sponsor

Cambodian

refiwees, with special emphasi s on CHRISTIAN

refugees.

(2) To produce

ind

distribute a monthly newspaper -- the

Cambodian CUrlstian

News --

with advice,

encouragement, news,

and Bible trachlng. Paul Sokun Nhem knows C amb od ian

refugees In many

parts

of the U.S.A.,

Australia,

New Zealand,

Prance,

Phmpplnes,

Japan,

Thailand, and o the r countries.

(3) To

produce

cassettes In

the Cambodian language

which will

give

Bible teaching and

music,

for upliftment

of the

Cambodian

people.

(4) To produce Christian videocassettes for use

In

many places

where

/ideocassette

recorders are available.

(5)

To

translate

BIbie-teachIng

literature

Into the

Cambodian

language, to gui de non -Chr is ti an s i nt o knowl edge of an d

accwtance of Christ, and to form

free

New

Testamentchurches .

(6) To

supply

Bibles

an d

hymnbooks In

the Cambodian language.

Th e C ambod ia n Holocaust: What Can W e D o? We

can

do a

tremendous lot by helping the Camlsodian Christian refugee

leaders

to

help

ttwir

own people.

Jesiis said, To th e extent that you did It to on e of these

brothers

of

Mine/even the

least

of them, you did ittoMe. (Matthew 25:40).

Jmus also

said

to Peter, Simon, so n of J oh n, d o

yo u

love

Me?

Sh/pherd

My

sheep. (John 21:16).

au l Sok un Nhem a sk ed m e to ad d the se words from the Apostle

Piul: T her efo re w e do n ot lose h eart, b ut th ou gh our out er man is

lecaylng, ye t

ou r

i nner m an Is being renewed day by day. For

lomentary, light

affliction Is producing for us an eternal weightof glory

far beyond ail

comparison,

while we look no t at the

things

which

ar e

seen, bu t

at t he things which

are

no t

seen;

fo r the thingswhich areseen

are temporal,

bu t

the

things

which ar e

no t

seen are e ternal

(II

Corinthians

4:16-18).

Now

faith

is th e

assurance

of things

hoped

for,

th e

conviction of

t hings not seen (Hebrews 11:1).

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF

PAUL

SOKUN

NHEM

Paul Sokun Nhem t e a che s Chris t ian l ea d er s wha t

he

learned

from

missionaries

Somchai and

Georgia

Panya

in refugee

camp

in Thailan

during

1980. Many

hundreds

of

Cambodian refugees were baptize

Jilto Christ

as

a result of his diligent work.

Th e

leaders would then

go

t

different preaching points

to

share wha t t hey h ad l ea rn ed .

^Xwas-under P/ince Sihak Nouk s authority slnceJtM9.until Marc

.18, 1970. I.was born October 5, 1949 In Kos Chen Srok Ponheal

Kandal. | b el ieved

God

In 1957 by th e Bible,

nobody ordered

me t

believe

God .

I

was studying Khmer class from 1955

until

March 18,1970, about

1

years:

^ 1. _ PrimaryKoschen Ponhealu Kandal from 1955 until 196

about 6 years.

2. High school and college: Tepraham Ordong andVukuntho

Phnom Penh

from 1961 until

1968,

about 7 years. -

3. Jtlpiverslty Sahak Pheap Khmer So VIeth from 1968 unt

^

' March

18, 1970, about 2 years.

I

was under

Lon Nol s authori ty from March

18,1970

until April 1

1975. Igot a job as the artist Inthe government Information officefor th

magazine Cambod Nou Vaux with Trinh Hoana and also for th

'Khmer Republic s

Newspaper'

which

wasrecorded

InEnglish

languag

with Mr. Ith Sareth,

during

March 18,.1970 through 1979.

I

studied

Bible Institute in Takhad

Phnom

Penh f rom 1973

throug

April 17, 1975 and during that time I took care of thousands an

thousands

of

th e

children

and taught them

of

the name Jesus Christ

I

ngel s Christian Orphanage P. Penh . They had lost their fathers

mothers, and families inthe war. Atthe same time I built one church.

wa s

named

'Noah Church' In

th e

Phnom Penh

and had

many member

Lastly, I

taught

the peopleat the BibleInstituteand had many thousand

of

people

believe God.

I was under th e Communist

Pol

Po t since April 17,1975 until Januar

7,1979.

Poi

Po t

destroyed

Lon

NorsgovernmentonAprll17,1975. Th

Communist soldiers brought

all

th e peopl e who lived

in

permanen

places to

change

to another's place. Myfamily

an d

Ilived in Phom Pen

City. They brought

ustotheKean

Sva^n the Veal

Sbov

Temple Apr

17 ,

1975

at 4 p.m.

I

ha d been

engaged to Mal a Keo for

one

year.

After

I

arrived

at

th

Kean Svay and'waited fo r

4

days

after

sh e arrived.

Then

we wer

married by-Chad-Uth, Sem-Bun, and

another

Khmer

Christia

minister. Then the communists brought

us

back to ourbirthplaces. W

were

there about

7

months and

13

days. Dur ing th is same time

we sti

told th e

people about Jesus Christ, so

many

people believed

God.

ihogght

I would die for

Jesus,

bu t I

have

to tell everybody as

much

as

ca n before I die. This wa s a problem fo r

us.

Soldiers of Pol Po t wer

con tinued on

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6


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AUTOBIOGRAPHY

OF PAUL SOKUN NHEM

continued

from

page

5

against

us,

persecuted

us and

then

they brought us into Kampong

Chhan

Province

Sln^e

Nov.. 1975 throuati.4S7

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