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Izzy and I arrived safely in the town of Battambang, flying into Phnom Penh after an hour layover in Seoul. We stayed at the YWAM base in Phnom Penh for the night and then got a bus for 6 hours to Battambang. In the mornings Izzy and I are teaching English to 5-12 year olds everyday. On friday afternoon we went to see Laura who is starting a foster care house for aids orphans called
Jeevits house (you can you tube it).
We chatted for about 2 hours, they have the house now and are making connections with people in the slums who might be in need. Laura was praying and felt like she should e-mail me about ideas with how to raise funds to support the house. I shared with her about the idea that is imerging in Montana to do a fashion show fund raiser, probably next spring. 
People also keep telling me about "White Doves" a ministry that help women at risk in the sex trade to get a new vocation by teaching them to sew. This is happening in Siem Reap at the moment. God is arranging lots of appointments and we're getting to chat to lots of kewl people. While we were at Laura's Kalyan text us to say that while she was visiting the slum a lady who was visiting just became a Christian. She had been to the feeding program run from the house on Saturdays and heard the gospel there. The feeding program is on saturday afternoons feeding about 100 kids after putting on a kids program. The Lady in the Slum (I think her name is Ry) is having a really tough time so cried out to God because she believes that Jesus can help her. She is 43 with a new born and other kids as well but doesnt have enough money to feed them. She also doesnt want to give up her kids. Laura is going to see if she can help them. Laura had lots of other stories like this one. As much as possible Laura wants to keep the kids with the parents or in Cambodian foster homes and then the house will be a place they can come to learn and the really sick kids will be able to stay. She was really grateful for the stuff that we bought her and about the support. We are going to hang out more while we are here and get to know the girls.
Iz and I are loving the freedom that we have this time. It has been more restful this week as we catch up on energy from the journey. Next week we will be trying to get up for the 5:30am devotion that the family do each day. The house is so fun to be in as there are youth and kids always coming in and out and so much of Gods work flowing out of there. I got to visit a lot of the youth girls from the 5 o clock English class from DTS outreach. We've seen a lot of
Sreynuch who still comes to the class, but not so much church any more. We are hoping to keep visiting them, catching up, hanging out and hopefully chat to them and encourage them to keep going in their faith. We want to do a girls group on Wednesday evenings and Sunday afternoons. Prayer for that would be kewl because they all made a commitment when we were here last time but only a few of them have followed through and are still living it out.
The days have been cooler yesterday and today. Before that from arriving the heat was stifelling! I didnt think I could make it through, lol, it was uncomfortable just sitting down and all you wanted to do was sleep. Me and extreme temperatures do not mix; I'm thankful that it has cooled off.
More next time...
People also keep telling me about "White Doves" a ministry that help women at risk in the sex trade to get a new vocation by teaching them to sew. This is happening in Siem Reap at the moment. God is arranging lots of appointments and we're getting to chat to lots of kewl people. While we were at Laura's Kalyan text us to say that while she was visiting the slum a lady who was visiting just became a Christian. She had been to the feeding program run from the house on Saturdays and heard the gospel there. The feeding program is on saturday afternoons feeding about 100 kids after putting on a kids program. The Lady in the Slum (I think her name is Ry) is having a really tough time so cried out to God because she believes that Jesus can help her. She is 43 with a new born and other kids as well but doesnt have enough money to feed them. She also doesnt want to give up her kids. Laura is going to see if she can help them. Laura had lots of other stories like this one. As much as possible Laura wants to keep the kids with the parents or in Cambodian foster homes and then the house will be a place they can come to learn and the really sick kids will be able to stay. She was really grateful for the stuff that we bought her and about the support. We are going to hang out more while we are here and get to know the girls.Iz and I are loving the freedom that we have this time. It has been more restful this week as we catch up on energy from the journey. Next week we will be trying to get up for the 5:30am devotion that the family do each day. The house is so fun to be in as there are youth and kids always coming in and out and so much of Gods work flowing out of there. I got to visit a lot of the youth girls from the 5 o clock English class from DTS outreach. We've seen a lot of
Sreynuch who still comes to the class, but not so much church any more. We are hoping to keep visiting them, catching up, hanging out and hopefully chat to them and encourage them to keep going in their faith. We want to do a girls group on Wednesday evenings and Sunday afternoons. Prayer for that would be kewl because they all made a commitment when we were here last time but only a few of them have followed through and are still living it out.The days have been cooler yesterday and today. Before that from arriving the heat was stifelling! I didnt think I could make it through, lol, it was uncomfortable just sitting down and all you wanted to do was sleep. Me and extreme temperatures do not mix; I'm thankful that it has cooled off.
More next time...
