Cambodia Cassette Bible Institute (CCBI)

One of the most common things you will hear about the church in Cambodia, from both missionaries and national church leaders alike, is that the church is "a mile wide, and an inch deep." They will all tell you the greatest need in the Cambodian church today is discipleship. When the Tabors first arrived in 1994 there were approximately 140 evangelical churches in all of Cambodia. Today, the Evangelical Fellowship of Cambodia recognizes more than 2400 churches! While those numbers represent exciting results from evangelism and church planting, discipleship continues to be a challenge. CCBI was developed with this in mind.

The primary goal of CCBI is to provide training for church lay-leaders in their own communities. To that end, a three year curriculum was developed to address both Bible knowledge and life application. Subjects are recorded live in various Bible school classes and seminars and distributed on cassette tapes along with a study guide, practice questions and regular testing. In order to provide more opportunity for discussion and mutual encouragement, students study in small groups in their area and are visited monthly by CCBI staff who help to answer questions, facilitate the program, and administer tests. Although this program only began full operation in January 2005, by August of the same year over 100 students were studying in 11 locations throughout the country (with one group made up entirely of former Khmer Rouge soldiers meeting in the former Khmer Rouge stronghold of Pailin!).

Troy serves as chairman of the board for this interdenominational leadership training program.