Tom and Lynn Newhouse

Strategy Catalysts for the Kuy People of Cambodia

Vision: to help facilitate a Church Planting Movement among the Kuy in Cambodia.

The Newhouses in Phnom Penh

Experience a Kuy Village with us

One month in O'Krouch

Tom and Lynn learning Kuy language

Experiencing life with the Kuy

Our temporary home

No electricity (except for the car battery we used to run a light and the computer)

No running water

Latrine out back (one of two in the whole village)

Sleeping on mats under mosquito nets

Pumping the well water

Taking a bath

What the kids did

Make friends Swim in the reservoir Learn new games

Nate also went out to watch the cows with friends

About Kuy life: rice production is keyHere they are preparing to transplant rice from the

nursery

Kids go to school, at least some of the time, and learn in Khmer (the national language)

Fishpond and community building

Making palm sugar cakes

Older people speak mostly Kuy language

What we did

Learn Kuy with our language helper, Ian Practice, practice, practice

Helping the pastor clear a field for planting

Church in the community building

Pastor Kon Kouen and his wife

One of Tom's many trips to the Kuy area

a survey trip with two missionaries interested in the Kuy in Jan. 2009

A forest road

Meeting some Kuy people

Getting directions

Getting something to eat

Visiting a house church

Pray for the Kuy people

Pray

for the Holy Spirit's work in the hearts of the Kuy people

for a national partner to work with us

that God would establish a Church Planting Movement among the Kuy of Cambodia