KILLING FIELDS, LIVING FIELDS
An unfinished portrait of the Cambodian church
By Don Cormack. Christian Focus. 464 pages. £8.99
ISBN 978-1-84550-511-0
Don Cormack has been involved with the Cambodian church over several decades and this new edition of his book brings the unfolding story of God’s work in Cambodia right up to date.
He tells the history of the evangelical church in Cambodia from the time missionaries first took the gospel there in the 1920s, through the country’s subsequent wars and regime changes, culminating in the notorious Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. They slaughtered and starved two million of their fellow Cambodians, including most of the fledgling church. The country which emerges from the killing fields is traumatised and morally spent, but the gospel miraculously survives.
