We're at Ming's…also known (well, to me!) as The Treehouse which is our new home in Battambang!  I'm swinging in the blue hammock, unshowered, sporting a Cambodian headband and eating peanutbutter on white bread.  🙂  Today and tomorrow are our days off before we start ministry at Transform Asia Monday morning!  I feel good here! Yesterday we took the 6 hour bus ride to Battambang, filled with the resounding sounds of bad Khmai karaoke, Rambo dubbed over in Kmai, and some cop show with lots of screaming…which was very confusing to wake up to...

We just spoke with the team leaders and they’ve all arrived safely in Cambodia. They are in route to their ministry site via some very long bus rides and will be settling in these next few days and getting some orientation from their host. Expect to see some blogs rolling out in the next few days as they find internet. Thanks for all the prayers for this team! The Passport field support team

September 3rd, 2011 Well, my journey to Cambodia has begun! I flew out last Friday (VERY early in the morning) to Atlanta where I met my awesome team that I get to work with for the remainder of the trip.  The Cambodia team is made up of all women who are 18-22 years old, from all over the U.S. and Canada.  Pretty sweet how God has chosen to bring people with all sorts of different stories together, in one place, with a purpose.   Once all of our team members arrived to the airport, our leaders sent us out on our first adventure—navigating our way through Atlanta to a...

  Well training camp has definitely been a growing experience. I have honestly wondered what God has got me into. haha I know this trip is going to grow me leaps and bounds beyond any expectations I might have. I am really learning how to trust God more and more each day and rely on him to keep me strong. I am excited for God to change not only my life but the lives of many trafficked women.    God has blessed me with such an amazing team of thirteen women. Its like he hand picked each one of us to perfectly mold together. I know with God and our 14 hearts combining...

Training camp is coming to a close.  It’s mid-afternoon on the day before we fly out! Woohooooooo!   While at training camp, we’ve received cultural briefings about the “do’s and don’t do’s” of Cambodia, had some wonderful worship sessions and speakers who have reminded me of my passion for justice and the power of God, spent time growing closer as a team, discussed expectations, and many other things.  We’ve also been roughing it: sleeping in a cabin with one little light that runs on a generator, porta-potties, taking cold...

And so it begins! My being is a blend of emotion-gratitude most prominent. I signed up for this journey knowing a change would be made. A change not only in the lives of the girls we will be reaching, but a change in myself. That change has began to take place! Training camp is nothing as I expected; I had no idea we would be walking the streets of Atlanta, looking for stories to be shared, no idea we'd have a dance off between teams (so fun), and no idea there would be a surrender hike, giving us opportunity to release that which was holding us back. I honestly had no idea what to...

September 2nd was uncomfortable. Although I knew it was going to be uncomfortable I did not think that I would become so overwhelmingly uncomfortable, that I would start to question why I was here. All I could think was that this was not what I expected and this was not what I signed up for….Then I realized, oh wait yes you did.  As hard as the past few days have been, I feel that the trial I have been going through got me to the point where I was ready to surrender. There are a few things that occured to bring me to this point of surrender but yesterday was the...

Thank you for logging on to read my first blog post! I am so excited about my journey to go witness for four months to the women and children of Cambodia who have been forced/trapped into a lifestyle of sex trafficking. A little about myself for you who do not know me, I was born and raised in Oxford MS, where I attended Oxford High until I was kicked out my senior year. At that point in my life, I was totally lost and darkened in my understanding of who God was and who I could be in him. Back then I was engulfed in sexual immorality, hate/fights, depression, alcohol, drugs… etc....