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Elspeth

Bringing Jesus’ love to Cambodia

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Hello, we are the Wall family, Darren, Susan, Elspeth and Catriona. Our home is in Inverness where Darren flew with the RAF and Susan was a teacher. Even before we were married in 1995, we both felt the Lord might be calling us to serve Him overseas and so, in 1999, we started a process of enquiry and subsequent application to serve with OMF International.
During that process, the Lord confirmed his calling for us to serve Him in Cambodia. At the end of 2003 we moved to Glasgow where we studied at International Christian College in preparation for this service.
In March 2005 we arrived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. During our first year there we completed the initial phase of full time Khmer language study, settled into a Khmer neighbourhood and started worshipping at a Khmer church which meets close where we were living. The girls attended Hope International School, a British curriculum school in Phnom Penh. They enjoyed their time there very much, but found it difficult when friends left Cambodia either temporarily or permanently, as is the common experience of Third Culture Kids (TCKs).
In May 2006, Darren took over the role of the OMF Cambodia Team Business Manager, for the Team of approximately 80 adults and 50 children. In August 2006, Susan started teaching part-time at Hope International School. She also provided relief management for the OMF Team Centre in Phnom Penh as well as running a weekly club for the OMF children.

In December 2008, we completed our first term in Cambodia, returning to the UK for a 7 month Home Assignment. We returned to Cambodia in August 2009, with Darren continuing the Business Manager role, while Susan taught English to government officials and oversaw the short term workers’ programme; Darren also taught English to government officials at the Ministry of Cults & Religions, as part of OMF’s Memorandum of Understanding with them.
In July 2011, we returned to UK, based in Kent, for Darren to take up the Director of Finance role for OMF International (UK) and Susan to work with their programme for sending short term workers overseas. As a family we have found the transition back to UK very difficult, especially Elspeth & Catriona, however, we believe that this is God’s plan for us for the foreseeable future, until He shows otherwise. Our time in Cambodia was filled with many vivid and life changing memories as we crossed paths with so many lives which have left deep imprints on ours. We are so grateful to God for the experiences He gave us and feel very privileged to have been called by God to serve Him and receive His grace in such an exciting church growth environment. It was often far from easy, but it was definitely worth it!

We are, though, one part of a much bigger team, probably including you, that God has used to fulfil His Kingdom purposes through this ministry. We thank you for your interest and support in this work, trusting that you have known and continue to know God’s blessing in this.

Now we have returned to UK, we are not planning to update this website any further, but will leave it available for those who are interested to visit and read about some of the experiences which have been formulative in the years between 2005 and 2011 in our lives. If you want more information, you can contact us through the ‘Contact Us’ page.