Cambodia 115. What a journey.

My name is Puth Cheara, male, 35 years old. I am Kouy indigenous and birthplace in Preus Kok village, Mloprey 2, Cheb district, Preah Vihear province. I have a wife and three daughters. I have moved to live at my wife’s hometown, Preychher Khiev village, Bakiev commune, Chouk district, Kompot province.

My testimony before accepting and believing in Jesus. When I was 14 years old, my mother understood the real situation that there was no school in the village where I lived, so she sent me to a pagoda in Chey Sen district so that I could study at the pagoda. But while living in the pagoda, I had a swollen back spine without knowing the cause of the disease. Then my mother took me to the provincial hospital for treatment, but the blood test showed nothing and I was still sick. My mother took me to a Khmer traditional healer (Black magic/supernatural healer) for treatment and the Khmer traditional healer mentioned that I was bewitched because someone put me under a spell. The series of treatment by healers, my disease did not get better, still the same, then healers suggested me and my mother to go to another Khmer traditional healers for treatment because he could not afford and have been tried their best already and the condition worsened everyday and no sign of recovering.

My mother took me to treat with a lot of Khmer traditional healers from one to another, whenever we heard that a famous healer was good at treating, and my family sold almost all of our property to pay for my treatment, but my illness still did not recover. At that time, my mother and I were very desperate and saddest because we did not have money to continue treatment in Phnom Penh. At that time, I was a bedridden at home and despairing.

I want to die and think about wanting to commit suicide because I was so depressed and completely hopeless but did not die. Then some villagers told my mother to take me to the church inside the orphanage center at Mohaphal village, Chhean Mok commune, Tbaeng Meanchey district, Preah Vihear province. I went to the church for the purpose of curing my bone severe disease. I previously did not know who Jesus and savior was, what the church was, and never known about Jesus Christ. But during my staying in the church, God gradually touched my heart, until in 2007, I decided to believe in God and make a dedication and baptism, and decided that from now on, whether God helped me or not, I would follow God forever.

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