Timothy College and Business Institute( continued)
What You Give Is What They Get
Strong and Stable Leadership
Timothy College and Business Institute( continued)
The threefold vision of LHCC:
1. To be a church. CCC’ s aim is summed up in Ephesians 4: 11 –‘... to prepare God ' s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up....’ We welcome every opportunity the Lord gives us to teach, encourage and edify our Cambodian brothers and sisters.
2. To set up Christian businesses. Ross Rennie has much relevant experience that he can share with them as they move forward with this vision.
3. To establish a centre for Christian education from pre-school to university.
It was this last aspect of the LHCC vision that we were most excited about. All three Council members had an inner witness that we had found the partner through which Timothy College could be established.
The CCC Council subsequently discerned a link between parts 2 and 3 of the LHCC vision, which has led us to rename the college Timothy College and Business Institute.
Faith that Can Move a Mountain The just shall live by his faith( Habakkuk 2: 4)
Sanith and Both showed us a plot of land that the Lord had led them to. The price tag is eye-wateringly high. In fact the figure that the Lord has given to Ross for the whole project is US $ 7 million( about £ 5½
What You Give Is What They Get
million). Where can we get that kind of money? From Jehovah Jireh, the Lord our Provider!
Khem Sanith, Soun Both and Ross Rennie viewing the land
LHCC are used to waiting on the Lord in faith. It took them 19 years before they could build their first church building. It is 18 years since the Lord imparted the vision for Timothy College to CCC. We have both learned to persist in prayer and be content with God’ s timing.
We have written the vision and made it plain, we await the appointed time, we exercise confident faith that what the Lord has initiated and revealed, He will bring to pass.
We try to keep CCC keep lean and fit, with minimal overheads. Our latest annual accounts( for 2016) show that our UK administration costs were covered by the income we received through tax reclaimed under the Gift Aid scheme. In addition, not only do the people who run CCC receive no payment for their services; they also give money to the charity with the stipulation that this can be used for administration or promotion if necessary.
So we are confident that this year also, 100 % of any donation you make to CCC will go to where it is needed: Cambodia. Whether you give to our Children of Cambodia project, help pay for another child’ s education or support the fundraising effort described on the next page, none of your money will be swallowed up in administration.
Strong and Stable Leadership
During the 2017 UK general election campaign, Conservative Party leader Theresa May used the phrase‘ strong and stable leadership’ 57 times in the first ten days of the campaign.
Political leadership in Cambodia is in the hands of Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been in office since 1985 and is one of the longest serving leaders in the world. Hen Sen was a Battalion Commander in the Khmer Rouge army until he fled to Vietnam. He was appointed Deputy Prime Minister in the Vietnaminstituted communist government in 1979.
Hun Sen’ s opponents may concede that his strong leadership has provided Cambodia with stability, but they have also accused him of autocracy and nepotism.
Hun Sen has stated that he intends to rule Cambodia until he is 74( which will be in 2026). Many Cambodians fear what may happen if support for the main opposition party increases and Hun Sen’ s party loses the next general election in 2018. Hun Sen warns regularly that Cambodia’ s peace is fragile, that civil war may come if his party is defeated and that he might deploy military force against any political party that attempts to wrest power away from him.
June 2017’ s commune elections may be a foretaste of what could happen in 2018.