Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20That, I think, is one of the good works God prepared in advance for me to do. In 1999 I left the Alberta Report to start graduate school at the University of Texas and join the staff of WORLD Magazine, and in 2002 I joined the faculty of Patrick Henry College in Virginia. Jennifer now works in the PHC library. I’d gone to seminary a decade before expecting to become a Bible college professor, and instead God gave me the ministry of preparing young Christians to tell true stories. A PHC colleague put me in touch with Manickam in 2013. We spent hours and hours on the phone over the next year, and finally met in Phnom Penh. We visited Choeung Ek as part of a tour of Cambodia, and also saw the remains of the village where in 1978 he was forced to marry a woman named Samen. A month later they discovered they were both Christians, two of perhaps a few hundred still alive in the country. They survived the Khmer Rouge and later moved to Seattle, where they raised their five children. Today Manickam ministers to churches in the U.S. and Cambodia. Manickam has been angry with God at times, but he still believes that the Lord had a purpose in allowing Cambodia’s genocide, and even the tragic losses in his own life. Could my faith stand such a battering? I pray so but, thankfully, for now my job is just to tell the story — and to help my students learn to tell the stories to which God has called them. ——————————————————— Click here for more information about Les’book,IntendedforEvil:ASurvivor’s Story of Love, Faith, and Courage in the Cambodian Killing Fields. Right: Les Sillars (ThM 93, PhD 2004, University of Texas) has been a journalist for over 20 years and is Professor of Journalism at Patrick Henry College in Virginia. His writing has also appeared in The Weekly Standard, the National Post, and Touchstone Magazine.