Read our January 2011 Newsletter!

After exchanging visions for the children of Cambodia with Reaching Kids International President Rev. Mike Kerychuk and the Director of Child Sponsorship, Claudia Thomason in Prescott, Arizona, John Yoder left Prescott in 2007 to return to Cambodia for a  lifetime of missionary service to the Khmer people.

During that first year, John was led to a Christian orphanage among the bamboo trees in rural Cambodia, about 65 miles north of the capital city. After witnessing the zeal that the children of the orphanage had for Christ, despite persecution from their Buddhist counterparts, the vision for Reaching Kids Cambodia began to take shape. In early 2008,  Pastor Mike joined John and Sotey ( John’s Khmer wife and partner in ministry) in Cambodia where they visited the orphanage, toured other Christian schools for children, and spent time with kids who live in the slums and trash heaps of Phnom Penh.

Combining RKI’s experience providing education for children throughout the Third World, and John’s training with the University of Nations (subsidiary of YWAM), the mission was clear:   Establish training centers throughout Cambodia to provide children’s basic needs in health and education. Additionally, provide Bible training to equip these precious children of God for the task of spreading the good news of Christ in their villages. They will reach their provinces and reach across the Kingdom of Cambodia, and into regions of the world! (Acts 1:8).

Much more is needed to see these centers become a reality. Your monthly contributions or ‘one time’ gifts will make you a partner in this exciting explosion of Christianity happening throughout Cambodia, while putting smiles on the faces of children.

What a difference we have witnessed in these children.  These same children had only one task prior to our intervention and that was to survive day by day.