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One of the motifs we have found inspirational in Servants comes from the way Jesus sent out his disciples as missionaries.  He instructed them to find a person of peace.

In Luke 10, when Jesus sent out the 70, he commanded:

"When you enter a house, first say, 'Peace to this house.' If a man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him. ... Stay in that house, eating and drinking whatever they give you. ... Do not move around from house to house. ... Heal the sick who are there and tell them, 'The kingdom of God is near you,'"(Luke 10:5-9, NIV).

In Servants when we move into a slum community it is with the firm belief that God is already at work there and that the people of that slum themselves will be at the centre of any work of transformation.

We pray that God will lead us to men and women of peace who will be agents of His blessing. We look for a strategic minority of key people that we can encourage, invest ourselves in, and empower into leadership.

In Cambodia we celebrate a 14 year journey alongside Cambodian men and women of peace. These local followers of Jesus have been leading all the ministry for several years and have even formed their own Khmer organization to serve the poor. In 2004, Servants officially handed over the leadership of all the ministries in Cambodia to our Cambodian counterparts. They named themselves TASK (a Khmer acronym). Servants workers in Cambodia now work alongside or under the leadership of these Cambodian Christians.

TASK's work continues to grow. When we handed over the leadership in 2004 they had 19 staff – now they’re up to 31 and all their ministries have expanded. TASK has gone from strength to strength.

Read more about the individual ministries run by our Khmer partners, TASK, by using the menu on the left.