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Faith Engine
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Thirty-five percent of Cambodia’s population lives in poverty. Young men go to cities in search of jobs. A missionary from the Philippines has found a way share his love of auto mechanics to offer free job training in order to break the cycle of poverty. Reed Galin reports. |
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(Locator: Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
The rumbling of this engine might be annoying to some. But for these
young men in Cambodia, it is a sound that signals new possibilities.
Emmanuel Barte (“bar-tay”), a United Methodist missionary from the
Philippines, hopes that teaching auto mechanic skills will help his
students have a better life.
Emmanuel Barte/United Methodist Missionary: “We provide them food and
then the place for them because most of them they cannot contribute
because their parents, they don’t have a job. They are only working in
the field, so they don’t have enough budget.”
Contributions, although tiny by American standards, are needed to help
run the classes for the faith engine ministry. Poverty is so great in
Cambodia that local pastors pay the few pennies a day for each man to
receive training.
Emmanuel Barte/United Methodist Missionary: “First, we have a devotion
all together with the staff and my students, and after that we have
singing of Christian songs with my class, and after that we start the
lecture. The engine that they’re doing this morning, now they’re showing
us what they learned.”
The mechanic training makes it possible for these men to better provide
for their families – a struggle Emmanuel is all too familiar with.
Emmanuel Barte/United Methodist Missionary: “I love to serve them. I
know what they’re feeling and I’m ready to share my ability to them. So
this is my commitment.”
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To learn more about Emmanuel Barte and his auto mechanics ministry,
click here.