Hey Everyone,
I just wanted to sent out an update on what my team and I are up to. Last month we found ourselves in El Alto, Bolivia helping out with mens and women’s homes. The homes were for younger adults who struggled with drugs, alcohol, or had gotten into trouble. It looked like it was going to be a challenging and rewarding month especially with having another team of 7 join us. The one problem with El Alto is it sits over 13,000 feet and it was difficult for of the other team members to breathe; with having asthma. Since this happened I was asked to accompany them to go join another team in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. This was nice to be with another team and get to know them better than we knew them before. The ministry was sporadic and we helped with multiple churches. With all this happening, it did make for a quick month.
After ministry in Bolivia ended, our squad had to travel to Peru, in order to fly to Asia. The difficulty about this was it took 7-9 days worth of traveling for many of us. We went from Bolivia to Peru to Miami to Atlanta to South Korea with a final destination of Cambodia. Talk about jet lag and exhaustion. We had around 29 hours of flight time, many hours worth of layovers, and probably 25-30 hours worth of drive time. Most of us will be glad not to have to get on a bus for awhile. Adding all these together resulted in many grumpy, and tired people.
Phnom Penh was here we landed in Cambodia and this is where our squad slit up again for month 4. Our team ended up be 6-8 hours north west of Phnom Penh. We are staying in a small church with Pastor Yim, his wife, and his daughter. The church is located in a small village near Svay Chek, Cambodia which is north of Sisophon, Cambodia. Our Ministry is speaking the Gospel to the people in the village and teaching english at the church as well as schools in Sisophon. It’s a very interesting and eye opening experience for myself to be in a place where people can’t read or write. A place were most of the people will never travel to another country or possibly never leave the house they grew up in. If they do leave, it is usually to Thailand in order to make enough money to support their families. The rest stay at home and farm potatoes in which they export to Thailand. Most of the villagers are grandparents or young kids and this is because a lot of the moms and dads are working in Thailand. Despite the circumstance of these people and the terrible things that has happened to the Kahmer people, since they gained independence from France in 1953, went through a civil war, genocide, and the rise and fall of the Kahmer Rogue. They seem to still be happy and cheerful people. This is a relief to see and it has been such a blessing to be able to spend the last couple weeks with these joyful people.
Now that we are all up to date, the blogging will continue and I will catch up once it is easier to access WiFi.
Financially, I am in need of $3,648 by January 31st in order to continue the Race. I am asking all you wonderful supporters to help me with this. There is only so much I can do through social media, so I am asking if you can help spread the word back home. If you know of people that can help, or want to help, now is the time so they can support this mission I am on and follow my journey. That is only 11 days and WiFi is not easy to get to. Thanks in advance in helping me with this.
Also, I do want to extent a HUGE THANK YOU to all of you who have been supporting me thus far. There is so much work to be done in the world and with out you I wouldn’t of been able to help as much as I have. It has been huge in my growth, huge in other peoples lives, and huge in open eyes and hearts.
Until Next time,
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:1 NIV
