Cambodia

Field Office Information

C&MA Field Entry in 1923

Field Director:

Mailing Address:

c/o CAMA Services House 71 B Road 608 PO Box 118 Toul Koak
Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA

Phone:

011-855-92-921-883

Email:

fd@online.com.kh

Website:

National Church

Khmer Evangelical Church: 50 organized churches, 120 unorganized groups, 3 ordained ministers, 2,671 baptized members, and 6,480 inclusive members

Team Initiatives

• Plant churches among the Khmer, Vietnamese, Jarai, Phnong, and other minority groups in Cambodia.
• Significantly impact the spiritually and physically needy through the ministry of the Poipet hospital and church planting.
• In conjunction with the national C&MA church, develop church-planting materials that could be used to train new church planters.

Vietnamese Refugees Find New Hope in Cambodia

2006-01-17 08:00:37.0

NewHope Ministries, an Alliance outreach in the Vietnamese community of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is bringing the good news of Jesus to refugees living in desperate poverty. Khang Nguyen, a C&MA apprentice from Canada who serves with NewHope, reports that 57 people from seven churches were recently baptized.  

“Four of the candidates were from Tacheik Village, where we are planting a new church,” says Nguyen. Among those baptized was a 15-year-old girl who has cancer; her parents were also baptized. She is being treated for the disease as a result of NewHope Medical Ministries. According to Dr. Huyen Tranberg from the Alliance team, the girl has good chance of surviving.  

“Please pray that God will completely heal her,” Nguyen says. “She and her family are growing in Christ. They have taken down the ancestor altar and worship only God.” Nguyen has a Bible study group in their hut every Thursday, with an average of six people. Plans are under way to have Sunday morning worship services in Tacheik Village. Seventy percent of the people who were baptized are students from NewHope schools. 

“We are grateful to see that the church is continuing to expand and that the medical and educational ministries are continuing to be used of God to reach the Vietnamese communities in Cambodia,” Nguyen adds.

Demographics

Population

Population--13,607,069 Infant mortality rate--71.5/1,000 Life expectancy--58.9

Capital City

Phnom Penh (1,169,800) pop.

Geography

The size of Missouri, Cambodia (69,900 sq. mi.) consists mainly of a large alluvial plain ringed by mountains, and on the east is the Mekong River.

Languages

Khmer (official), French, English

Ethnicity/Race

Khmer--90%; Vietnamese--5%; Chinese--1%; other--4%

Economy

Per capita income--$2,000 Inflation--3.1% Unemployment--2.5% Literacy rate--70% (2003 est.)

Government/Political Climate

Communist forces captured Phnom Penh in 1975; a 1978 Vietnamese invasion touched off almost 13 years of civil war. The 1991 Paris Peace Accords mandated democratic elections and a ceasefire. The remaining factions of the Khmer Rouge surrendered in 1999. Today Cambodia is a multiparty democracy under a constitutional monarchy.

Religion

Theravada Buddhist--95%; other--5%