ONE Prayer 911

Recently, the team at LifeChurch.tv asked our Life Mission team here at GCC, to run point on the international project for the ONE Prayer campaign.  We are thrilled...but more on that later.

We're launching a movement of 500 new churches in 4 locations:

• China
• Sudan
• India
• Cambodia.

I received an update this morning about Vibol, the leader of the church planter training in Cambodia, and his wife, Sok.  Vidol's wife was brutally attacked with acid yesterday.  This report is from Bob Craft, Director of SE Asia for New Generations, our ministry partner in Cambodia:

Vibol, the CP director in Cambodia wrote yesterday to ask for prayers because his wife had been attacked with acid.

Bob Craft wrote the following update last night:

They will probably head to Vietnam for further treatment tomorrow.  A doctor here told them that there are specialists there on burns. They got their Visas today.  They have a great travel agent friend who does these kind of favors for them.

Vibol arranged for some guys from a senator's guard staff to come over and protect the hospital room. I saw pictures of the Acid on the truck...they must have tossed an ice cream bucket full of it toward her.  It appears to have hit the rear window on the drivers side first, just as she was opening the truck's front  door.  There was acid all over the drivers seat, inside the door, on the hood and even some of the leaves on the tree above the vehicle had died already. 

Molten plastic and paint tells me that it was probably meant to kill her. She is blessed indeed to have received only the injuries that I saw.  She was wearing socks, a hat and double layers as a blouse or she would certainly had life threatening injuries from what actually did hit on her. It took her a few seconds to realize that it wasn't water that had hit her and she was near a clinic were they eventually washed her down in a bath room.

The hospital is pitiful with patients in the halls and even outside under walkways.  And it is the main hospital here!  I suppose its not much better in India in many places.  But I was shocked. Thanks for praying.

My stomach turned and my heart broke when I heard this report.  This brave man and woman are on the front line, let's hold the line for them in prayer.  Help is on the way.