We interviewed people of different provinces so we can find out
1. how the Grace and Truth conference 2012 has transformed their personal and church lives (if the interviewees joint last year conference)
2. how the Grace and Truth conference 2013 has impacted them
Province: Kampot
Name: Ek Molida (left)
From the conference I learnt that I can live with the freedom of God as now I knows God loves me clearly. Before I used to think that if I sins again God won’t forgive me, but now I am confident that He loves me. My eye pain got healed during the conference.
Name: Pastor Seng Kren (right)
From last year’s conference, I changed a lot as I learned about the Holy Spirit. I can feel the Fire of the Holy Spirit is always with me and it helped me learn about the True God. When I am tired from working, I knows that God will find me in the darkness so I can keep serving the Lord.
In this conference, I has had a stomach ache but God healed me during the prayer time.
Vietnam
Name: Dien Sang (left)
From last year’s conference he learnt about the Holy Spirit. I then studied about it and now I know that the Holy Spirit is always staying with him.
As we are in Vietnam, we face a lot of persecutions from the neighbourhood, the people from the government say that there must not be more than 50 people in their fellowship. We know that Jesus died for their sins and we won’t give up on preaching the good news.
Province: Takoe
Name: Sok Keng (middle)
From last year’s conference, God spoke to my heart that I’m no longer living in the decrees but in new life given by Jesus. I learned to live in Grace and Truth everyday. In this year’s conference, I learned how to observe what God is doing to serve and worship God.
Name: Son Yo (left)
From the conference I learnt about the transition from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant. Now I’ll try to look for the Grace and Truth in the word of God. Whenever there is darkness in my life, I will look upon the Son of God.
Province: Kampong thom
Name: Hay Choneng (left)
Back in last year’s conference. I’s still a new believer and the Gospel changed my life. I understand the Bible more with the Holy Spirit and my life has been changed by the Holy Spirit. Before I used to be really straight and I had a lot of argument with my husband and son in the family and then I started set aside the conflict and reconcile with my family with the help of the Holy Spirit. I loves my husband and family more and God has changed my family.
This year I learned about God has given me the seed to dream and God will bring heaven to earth as His Grace and Truth are with us.
Name: Thol Chan Thorn (right)
I is a widow from the rural province with little financial support, I is thankful to the Lord for answering my prayer as God sends His provision so that my daughter can study in university.
I used to have a lot of pain in my leg, but the Holy Spirit has healed me, now I feels good and the pain has gone.
I am very happy to come to this conference as I has never been to any conference before. as a family church in the rural province, I’am very impressed and I learned more about the gospel and learned how to share this in my village and I am clearer about the good news and has more courage to share the gospel with people.
I am thankful to the Lord for such a good time of study about God.
Province: Phnom Penh
Name: Pastor Ngoun Oith (left)
In this conference, I learned about Grace and Truth from heaven, and it is going to change my life, that I’ll embrace the eternal life by living in a new way which he’ll do things by the Holy Spirit but not by himself.
I want my church congregation to receive the Holy Spirit and the blessing from Grace. I want to encourage my congregation to choose mercy over justice as he learned that mercy is from God and justice is from the law.
I’ll try to have more mercy to my church members. I also want to encourage the congregation not be afraid of sins, but have faith in God’s Grace.
Province: Prey Veng
Name: Ron lart (Right)
I learned about Grace and Truth and that I am in a better life as God has promised the abundance life as the Son of God died on the cross for us.
Name: Cheer Ven (left)
I am thankful for the Hong Kong team to come in to teach about Grace and Truth.
Name: Chiron Kong
I learnt a lot about Grace and Truth and I want to share with my church about living in the New Covenant and to change the church to focus on the study about Grace, to know more about the difference in the Old Covenant and New Covenant. And with God’s Grace we do not need to be afraid of the wrongdoings in our lives.
Province: Kondal
Name: Chea Phorn (right)
I learned that living in Grace and Truth gives us eternal life, I also learned about what is Holy Spirit as he doesn’t know about the Holy Spirit before. He’ll share what is about grace and the blessing from the New Covenant. Thank you Pastor Tung for teaching Righteousness comes through Grace.
Isaiah 53
Name: Ben Qnorn (left)
I learnt about many things about Grace and Truth and I want to share with the people in my village about how to live in grace rather than following the law in the Old Covenant.
Name: Kan Vanna (Left)
I learnt about Grace and Truth, living in grace with the Holy Spirit. I gets angry with people easily and there are many storms in my heart but now I’ll try to change to smile more as I know God can calm all the storms in my life and I have a change in my heart with the peace in my heart
Name: Prak Bora (Right)
From last year’s conference I learned about the Holy Spirit. When my daughter in law turned from Buddhism to Christ, we found her possessed by Demons, we casted out Demons by proclaiming the power of the Holy Spirit.
Province: Kampong Changing
Name: Chun Ratha (Right)
During last year’s conference, I just turned from a gangster believing in Buddhism to a Christian and now I have a new identity as the child of God as I have my baptism 4 months ago, God changed my life upside down from bad to good, he learned about the true God and more about Grace and Truth this year.
Name: Net Chanmony (Left)
I learnt to make the storm in life to become quiet by praying and I learnt to trust what Jesus has done.
Province: Kampong cham
Name: Pastor Sam Em (Left)
Since last year’s conference, my church has made the transition from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant. We learn to feel free in Grace. It renewed our minds to think about Grace and Truth more. I also bring this teaching materials to preach in 10 churches in Vietnam and all these churches are changing to follow Grace and Truth. He thanked the Lord for having this conference. Not only my mind is changed but God also changed my body by sending him provision with new clothes to wear as God made me complete. This year he learned a lot about the Beatitudes, let the blind see.
Name: Pol Sem (right)
From last year’s conference, I learned about many Knowledge of Grace and Truth and I shared with my neighbourhood and about ten people believed in Christ in my village. This year I learned about how to pray and worship Jesus more.
Province: Banteaymean chey
Name: Pen sokong
From last year’s conference, it changed my life and the church as I told the members about Grace and Truth. I learned that living for God is easy, unlike law which is hard to follow.
This year, I learnt more about heaven, learnt how to listen to God’s voice. I also learnt about the Beatitudes of those poor in the Spirit to become rich, this message filled my heart and make me fire up to preach the gospel more.
Name: Bory (right)
Since last year’s conference, Grace changed my heart. Before I used to be an angry person but my life changed as I learned about forgiveness.
This year I learnt to lead by giving attention to people and learnt to separate Old Covenant from the New Covenant as God brings Grace and Truth to my heart. I also learnt about the Beatitudes which is a very good message for me.
Name: Panha (left)
In this year’s conference I learnt a lot about Grace and Truth and with my new faith I wants to share it with the church and share about it to the children ministry.
Province: Kratie
Name: Pastor Long Channy (left)
The power from heaven that I received from last year’s conference helped me to preach and share about Grace and Truth and I have become a better pastor since then. I will not worry about sins and any wrongdoings as now he knows God’s Grace truly.
This year, I learnt about the mercy from God, it’s like the woman taken in adultery in John 8, the Pharisees want to stone her but Jesus has mercy. We have sins but God has forgiven us and we are righteous in Him, as we focus on our relationship with God, we can live freely with grace.
I also want to thank the Hong Kong team for sponsoring the venue so that they have a better place to stay in Phnom Penh, with a good meeting place and proper bathrooms.
Name: Elder Khun Pheoun
From last year’s conference I learnt that the Holy Spirit is always staying with me. This year he feels he needs to teach to share more about Grace and Truth, for people to know Jesus’ forgiveness so that they can go to heaven.
Province: BB
Name: Pastor Srey Rom
After last year’s conference, I wanted to share Grace and Truth with people in the village, so I decided to plant a church, the church is still being built right now. I hope to share the good news from heaven with more people and bring people to live in Grace and Truth rather than sticking to the law of Old Covenant. This year I learned how to solve problem of church members by having more mercy.
Name: Rong Khetha
I received a new plan from heaven as he now knows more about Jesus and is making the transition to the New Covenant to live in Grace and Truth. I have found a whole new life as we are righteous in Jesus Christ. I learnt more about the Blessing of Jesus (the Beatitudes)
Name: Chhet Sarith
I want to thank the Hong Kong team for such a great opportunity to learn about Grace and Truth. I learnt about how to live in a heavenly way in my life with God’s blessing as he now knows the Holy Spirit is staying in my life. I hope to know more about Jesus Christ in the future. I want to share the gospel in the village, especially about Grace and Truth. As I now know the Holy Spirit has a plan for him, I can live a prosperous life.
Province: Kampong Soeu
Name: Senghak Hun (Middle)
In this three-day conference, God speaks to me and tell me a lot about Grace and Truth. Although I believes in Jesus, I used to worry a lot about sins. As I now learnt about Grace and Truth more, I knows that God still loves me no matter what I does. The conference helped me to study and understand the word of God more, as the pastors explain Bible clearly so that I can think about it more. I also learnt that when we pray Jesus in our hearts Jesus will give us dreams to think about His plans for us.
Name: Phun Dananuth (Left)
I said that this is very interesting as it is the first time for me to go to a conference. The preaching sessions are well explained, it really helped me to understand Grace and Truth, so I am thankful for God bringing me to the conference.
As I learned about 8 blessings from Matt 5, I can tell more about what is right and what is wrong and I felt that God loves me so much that I wanna do something, like loving neighbor and praying for those in persecution. God really comes to my heart and teaches me about forgiving others. And I knows that God loves me so much that God will not be angry with me no matter what I does and I can live righteously in Grace. I doesn’t know about the kingdom of God in my life before, but now I do, I want to dream and become more successful. I also learnt to put my faith in Jesus and be strong to solve the problems that are coming to us as Jesus calm the storms in our lives.
Name: Nem Pheakdey (Right)
I think that this is an amazing conference as it brings me closer to the Holy Spirit.
I plans to meet friends from difference provinces to share about things I learnt. I knows that He is always surrounding us, as those who are poor in spirit can be blessed with the Holy Spirit, full with the Spirit. Before I didn’t really study or build relationship with God, but now I changed my mind, I wants to become a true Christian as I now knows God has a plan for me, I’ll go to church more often. I know that the love of God is just like a baby going to hug his father, I can do it freely with Christ.
Province: Ratanakiri
Name: Elder Roun Da (Middle)
I thank God as this is my first time staying in Phnom Penh. I is thankful for the food and good living condition in these few days. It is so good for me to learn about Grace and Truth in these few days. The seed in my heart is growing up and it will keep growing as the Holy Spirit is with me. I wanna teach the things that they experienced in the conference in their own church. I now knows the Old Covenant for Moses are difficult to obey, you can’t live freely and failing the law will result in death, but it is so good that now they received the New Covenant and the Grace and Truth.
Name: Ti Sour(Right)
I am baptized by the Holy Spirit in the conference and I learnt that Grace comes from Jesus Christ. I learnt about the mercy heart not to betray others.
Province: Poipet
Name: Som Samon
I doesn’t live under the Holy Spirit before but now I knows about it clearly.
There are many testimonies that we have not recorded or translated
John 21:25 Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.