Hello there!
I’m Naleng
Project Manager, Translator, Worship Leader, Board Member, Mission Worker, Trainer, and Ministry Volunteer
Working with Cambodian and international Christian organizations, churches and Christian leaders to end gospel poverty, reaching the people at the marketplace through a holistic ministry approach.
Hello there!
Project Manager, Translator, Worship Leader, Board Member, Mission Worker, Trainer, and Ministry Volunteer
Naleng Real was born in a non-Christian family. She is the youngest in the family. She has been an orphan since she was three years old. Her mother died of starvation during the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia and her father went missing during the war. She has eight siblings, but five died from starvation during the Khmer Rouge war.
Read her full testimonyNaleng has a Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies from the East Asia School of Theology in Singapore. She also has a Bachelor Degree in English Literature that she earned at Norton University in Cambodia.
Naleng Real has served in different ministries since 1994 in roles such as Translator, Worship Leader, Sunday School Teachers’ trainer, ministry volunteer, Kairos facilitator and as a member of the Haggai faculty and board.
For nine years Naleng Real served with the Assemblies of God doing translation projects, seminars, Christian resources and bible school materials.
She has also served in WVI (World Vision International) in Cambodia for 9 years as a Christian Formation Coordinator. World Vision still connects with her for consultancy work when it fits with her field as needed by the organization.
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Naleng served as a volunteer in Worship Ministry and Sunday School Teacher before she went to Bible school in 2002. Recently, she is involved in Church Planting and also speaks in Youth Fellowship, and as a translator and interpreter when required at church.
Australia, Singapore, America, Thailand, Malaysia, Dubai, Lao and Vietnam.
Naleng has served in Cambodian and international ministry since 1994. These are the threads that run through it.
Naleng has translated books, Bibles and training materials into Khmer since 1994. She also interprets live, standing beside the speaker so a room of Cambodian believers hears every word as it is said.
Interpreting for a visiting speaker
Interpreting at a church gathering
Working through a Khmer translation
Translating a manuscript for Words of Life
Bible and training material translation
Naleng's voice reaches well past the room she is standing in. She records for Words of Life, and she has appeared live on Krusa FM 99.5, where the program streams as it airs.
Recording in the Words of Life studio
On set between takes
Preparing to record a teaching segment
Guest on Comfort At Night, Krusa FM 99.5
The church Naleng attends in Phnom Penh plants churches in Takeo province, and she travels with the team. A good deal of that work happens sitting on a mat with children who are hearing about Jesus for the first time.
Leading an action song in Takeo
Children's ministry in Takeo
Children's ministry in Takeo
Children's ministry in Takeo
Children's ministry in Takeo
Church planting in Takeo
Naleng led worship long before she went to Bible school in 2002, and she leads it still. She speaks at church gatherings and youth fellowship with her Bible open, in her own language, to her own people.
Speaking at Good News of Jesus Church
Leading worship
Speaking at a church event
Leading worship at Good News of Jesus Church
Leading worship at Good News of Jesus Church
Worship and prayer leader
Worship leader
Church ministry
Dancers at a church celebration
Naleng coordinates the EEC program that hosts a Master of Leadership from East Asia School of Theology, and she serves on the Haggai faculty and board. She was elected vice-president of Haggai International Association in Cambodia in 2017.
Haggai Alumni Reunion, Phnom Penh, 2024
EAST event in Cambodia
Haggai Alumni Reunion, 2024
Haggai Alumni Reunion, 2024
Naleng chairs the board of Precious Women Organization, which works with young Cambodian women. In 2020 the organization marked 10 years, and gave her an award for that service.
Tenth anniversary award, December 2020
Precious Women student graduation
Achievement award as chairperson
Precious Women Christmas event
Guest speaker at a Precious Women event
Naleng earned a Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies at East Asia School of Theology in Singapore, and she returns there for the graduations of students she now helps teach. Her ministry has also taken her to Australia, America, Thailand, Malaysia, Dubai, Lao and Vietnam.
EEC graduation, Singapore, 2026
EEC graduation, Singapore
Arriving in Singapore
Sydney, Australia, 2025
Current Location
Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia
Current Roles
The best way to reach Naleng is by email, or through her ministry page on Facebook. She reads everything that comes in, and answers as her travel and ministry schedule allow.
