WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

As groups of Christians were formed in the different
villages in the Battambang district, they would
build a small meeting place. Each group was organized
in a simple way with an elder in charge.
The congregations were again organized in circuits
of seven, and a student preacher from the Bible
School was placed in charge of each circuit. This
training in Bible study at the school, and in Christian
work in the stations and outstations continued
until there were quite a number of trained workers.
Some of these men, however, never had sufficient
education to become pastors; some did not even
seem to understand the spirit of aggressive evangelism.
There was a danger, for a time, of producing
a wrong type of ministry. Consequently the
prayer conference in 1932 decided to put all of the
Cambodian workers on a nonsalary basis as far as
Mission funds were concerned. The native congregations
were exhorted to support the evangelist to
the best of their ability.
This step was extreme, but it has had blessed
results. Some of the workers returned to their
homes, but ten of them went through with the Lord,
and these have become real men of God. The
churches are now, with one or two exceptions, selfsupporting
in the sense that they do not require
foreign funds to carry on. Some of them, however,
get along with very few expenses, and their pastors
do secular work to obtain a little extra money to