Cambodian Church History

The Lord's work began several decades ago when missionaries from Thailand came to Cambodia. They primarily made short excursions with only minimal results. In the mid 90's, a brother from the United States was teaching bible in a church of Christ training school in Singapore. His name was Bob Berrard and he was sponsered by the Sheffield, Texas church of Christ. Brother Berrard befriended a young Cambodian named Lork Choy in that school and upon graduation, Lork, called James now, invited Bob to work with him in Cambodia.

Brother Berrard accepted the challenge and moved to Phnom Penh in 1998. He not only planted the Lord's church in the Cambodian capital, but started a preacher training program. Bob traveled extensively outside the capital to many small villages to spread the word. All was going well until one fateful day in 2003. Bob Berrard gave his life for Christ in a motorcycle accident on his way to a small village to speak God's word. Bob Berrard is the reason we are here today.

Before his death, Bob had asked Bill McDonough to bring a medical team to Cambodia and help the poor. Bill was in Cambodia at the time of Bob's death and felt called by God to continue the good work the Sheffield church had begun. When he saw the Mekong River and the people who lived by its banks, he dreamed of a boat and as Paul Harvey says, "that is the rest of the story"!