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News from Cambodia!

October 21, 2011
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When I have questions, I really enjoy researching and digging for information, so that I can better understand whatever issue I’m looking into. So, I did some researching! I still have a lot of digging to do, if I wanted to satisfy my professor in my Research and Statistical Analysis course—BUT I have been blessed in conversations with a few different Cambodian people. The things that they had to say have sent my mind reeling with more questions. But I am starting to piece together the larger picture of Cambodia from listening to the people and their...

Ninjas and Prostitutes…

October 21, 2011
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So here I am, yet another morning with no students of my own to speak of… and here comes Huah! Barrelling through the room and up onto the stage, watch out! The 4-year-old Cambodian NINJA MASTER! He does somersaults! He punches! He kicks and "flips"! What can't he do? When this adorable, little 4-year-old is feeling the ninja calling, he gets into it. He believes with his whole, toddler heart he has been transformed into a 9th degree black belt, Karate Master. Now, let us biblical, shall we? This story was spoken to me during feedback just the other day and I have...

Can’t Talk, But I Can Walk!

October 21, 2011
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Hello lovely people! Have you ever heard the saying “Preach the Gospel and if necessary use words”? Well, don’t get me wrong, I’d much rather be able to sit down with someone and discuss the Scriptures with them, because the Scriptures are SO powerful (as they are the Word of God). But, guess what? I’m in Cambodia and not many people can speak English here and I cannot pick up their language overnight. I literally cannot speak the Gospel to them, unless I have a translator, which are far and few between. At first I was so frustrated by this because I want to...

Precious Moments

October 20, 2011
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Guatemala

This week marks the midway point on our trip, and we got ton spend it 8 hours away from Puerto Barrios in beautiful Antigua!!Â I can’t even begin to explain how badly our team needed this time away. We were dragging, individually and as a team, leading up to this point. People commented multiple times since being here how they could sense a weight and heaviness over our team. Ministry had become more of a chore, the legalism was beginning to suffocate, and I know that I had begun to forget what I was even doing here in the first place. This trip hasn’t been easy for any of...

Debrief: De-Funk

October 20, 2011
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Guatemala

Warning: My team is not the same team we used to be. I fully believe that God is moving and that the second half of our trip will look competely different from the first half. The last few weeks have looked pretty dark around our house. We have fallen into this funk of more complaining and ministry has become more of what we have to do rather than what we get to do. We are at mid way debrief in Antigua, Guatemala right now and this is exactly what we needed. When we arrived we found out that a couple World Race teams are staying at our...

Haitian Orphanage Accused of Abuse, Trafficking Children

October 19, 2011
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Haiti Missions

Feel free to share this press release with your networks and/or post it on your own blog. After continued visits to the Son of God Orphanage (SOG) in Carrefour, Haiti, six charitable organizations (Adventures in Missions, Bridgeway Church, Timberline Church, Journey Community Church, and Respire Haiti) have challenged the global community to force the hands of international leaders in the closure and investigation of the facility. According to eye-witness accounts, the children at SOG have suffered some of the most heinous human rights abuses at the hands of the...

Forever Love

October 17, 2011
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God’s faithfulness is so beyond my comprehension. I’ve been contemplating my life up to this point over the past couple of weeks, and many times it brings me to tears to realize exactly how God has been present for me and how he has worked on my behalf, even when I didn’t so much as acknowledge the fact that he was there. He has been SO faithful to me, even when I haven’t been at all faithful to him. I am so undeserving of his Grace, and yet he chooses to lavish me with it. I am so unworthy of his unconditional Love, but still he freely pours it into my being. My...

I’ve got the joy, joy, joy down in my heart.

October 15, 2011
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This week was a beautiful week of worship for me. One of the ways I most connect with God is through music, and I treasure my time to be able to open up my heart to him this way. But even though our team started the week with an hour long musical worship session and finished Friday night with a worship night at Transform Asia, worship this week extended so far beyond music. As Christ followers, we have the opportunity to worship God in everything we do. Worship is setting ourselves aside and focusing all our faculties on who God is. Worship is the momentum of seeing...

Lend me your ear and I’ll sing you a song….

October 15, 2011
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So the Betsy situation from my last blog brought me to a place of brokenness before the Lord. This brokenness is what allowed me to know that God requires a humble servant that will rely on his guidance every second of life. Thanks to this epiphany, the week of September 19-23 ministry was crazy amazing, and God showed me how truly joyous it is to serve him. “How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?” Romans 10:14 To...

Silence means nothing if you don’t even try.

October 15, 2011
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"Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, for the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened." ~Matthew 7:7-8 I am in awe of God’s faithfulness! Once again, the thoughts in my mind are running rampant with stories to share this week. This past Wednesday, I sat alone with God and asked for discernment, I asked for a deeper connection, and I practically begged that my eyes would be opened for what he needed...

Surgery on a Stage

October 15, 2011
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A lot has happened this week: We moved again. One of our teammates had surgery. Another had worms. And another little boy from the neighbourhood has attatched himself to me. His name is Huaa, and I love his little rotten toothed smile. He’s so stinkin cute. Okay, so we have moved. And here’s why: We were getting too comfortable with two people to a room, we weren’t growing anymore. So now have four to a room. I’m loving our new home. Why? No more cockroaches! Jesus loves me. And I’m loving my new roomies. They’re tres awesome. And we’re still living...

Terror No More

October 15, 2011
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Hello! I won’t lie, these past few weeks have been all over the board for me emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. Sickness, a death in the family, preaching, doing ministry and asking really big questions of God is a lot to process in a short amount of time. My biggest question this week was “Why does God allow innocent children to suffer horrific things that they have no control over?” The reality is millions of children suffer physical, mental, emotional and sexual abuse. Millions of children are starving and will die of starvation. Millions of children are...

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