PREAH NETR PREAH, Cambodia — On Sunday, Cambodians and Americans gathered under tents to worship together in “The Eyes of God.” That’s a literal translation of the Khmer words Preah Netr Preah, a district in western Cambodia.

“Jesus wants our hearts,” Mike Tolleson, a member of the Saturn Road Church of Christ in Garland, Texas, told the crowd.

Tolleson is one of eight Americans volunteering this week on a medical mission with Cambodia Christian Ministries.

The team — alongside Cambodian dentists, doctors and medical staff — has visited three rural villages in this Southeast Asian nation.

This piece is republished with permission from The Christian Chronicle.

Audrey Jackson, a 2021 journalism graduate of Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, is The Christian Chronicle’s managing editor.