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Wednesday we had a meeting with the organization that we will be working with here in Cambodia. We were to be heading out to a small church plant in a a village a couple hours out of the city. After which we went and grabbed a snack and some wifi from a coffee shop before going to a Wednesday night worship service at the church that bases the organization. It was an awesome, great, spirit-filled worship and a solid, simple word from a visiting pastor who happened to be from my home state of Oregon. An awesome night of getting filled up and ready to charge out into the village and spread some of God’s love around. The plan for the morning was to meet at the church at around 11 and get on a bus at noonish and head out.


I woke up in the morning to a text from my team leader telling me that we were actually going to be going to the church earlier and probably staying in the city but we don’t know what we will be doing yet. We arrived around 9 to meet up with our contact. And we still had no idea what the plan was, but that is half the fun right?  🙂

We all got together and found out the plan was to go and work with a church that was started by one of the  pastors that trained up through our contacts. It is in a different part of the city and that is about all we knew. We loaded up in the took-tooks and away we went. 

If you have been to Asia before, then you may understand what the traffic here looks like. If not, I am going to try and give you a feel. Basically, they don’t have any form of traffic control devices and when they do everyone just ignores them. “Right of way” is not something they have any clue about and I don’t think that they even have a Khmer word for “yield”. They have “four-way goes” instead of four-way stops. The few traffic lights that they have, give a left hand turn green and cross walk green at the same time and the people in the road get mad if you’re walking in the crosswalk, even though the traffic ahead of them is backed up and they have no where to go anyway. Instead of left hand turn lanes they just start merging into oncoming traffic, picking their way over to the left as they go. Fortunately most of then drive motos, which are way under-powered and have a top speed of about 35mph. It is quite a thing to see.  As you watch, you think how is there not an accident at this  intersection every two minutes? But they all seem to know how to drive like this and it just sorta works.

We arrived safely at the new church that we will be with all week about 15 minutes later. The girls were taken upstairs and shown the dorm that they will be staying in with the girls that live here. Bill and I were given a corner of the sanctuary to sleep in. There were a few people here but none of them seemed to know what’s going on. I sat down on the nice cool tile floor and started typing this blog, the girls went to the market to get some   food and started to cook some lunch. Part way through, one of the guys approached me and asked who our
leader was.  After pointing him to Anne, they came down and talked about the plan for the week.

We are near a college and we will be offering English classes to the students for free. Starting in the morning. This afternoon we will go to the college and hand out fliers inviting the students to come to our classes which will be offered three times a day for the next five days. We will also be going to what sounds like a boys and girls club and hanging out with high school students.

Its going to be a good week. Who needs plans away, its a lot more fun to just go with the flow of whatever God has for us.