Testimony of salvation: Chad  

Although I had made a profession of faith as a six year old, at the age of sixteen I became convicted of my sin against God and turned to Christ as my only Saviour.

 Call to the mission field:

I had never even heard of Cambodia until I went to West Coast Baptist College. Bro. Jeff Jupp presented his burden for Cambodia at the 2004 Missions Conference at Lancaster Baptist Church, and God spoke to my heart about going. Bro. Jupp's testimony in life and in death was instrumental in God's calling me to Cambodia.

 Ministry Experience:

I served under Pastor Fred Fies for nearly two years while I was at West Coast Baptist College. I taught the teen Sunday school and helped Pastor Fies in any capacity he needed me.

I served under Pastor John Wilkerson for two years. I worked in the Cambodian ministry, taught the college and career Sunday school class, and taught in the Christian school.

I served under Bro. Stephen Benefield for two months in Cambodia. During that time and my time with Pastor Wilkerson, I learned a good deal of the Khmer language, which I can speak conversationally.

 Testimony of salvation: Linda

I was raised in a Buddhist home. My parents are regugees from the "Killing Fields" of Cambodia, in which three million Cambodians perished in the mid 1970's. When I was a girl, Bro. Koumaly Thongdy took me, along with several other Cambodian kids from my apartment, to Cambodian Baptist Church.

Although I did not get saved at that time, a foundation was laid that would play a vital role a few years down the road. When I was nineteen, Pastor Sambath Mao, the Cambodian pastor from First Baptist Church of Long Beach, visited my home, and he eventually led me to Christ.