…I will have a total of 37 mosquito bites right now
We’ve been at our ministry site in Cambodia for a little over a week now. We are located in Phenm Penh, Cambodia which is the capitol of Cambodia. It’s a pretty large city and we are walking distance of shops & food. We are living at a YWAM base. We’re without hot water and A/C this month and we usually walk to a coffee shop to use the internet. Even tho it’s Cambodians dry season right now the Mosquito’s are bad and we’ve all been biten up pretty bad. Thankfully with us being here during dry season our risk of Malaria is down but Dangee fever is still a problem. Everyone’s new perfume is bug spray and we all sleep under covers even tho its really hot. Lauren and I are the cooks this week and we’ve been adding garlic to every meal (I’m loving it) to ward off mosquitos…not sure if its helping. It’s probably in the low 90’s with high high high humitity. For once I’m actually missing the snow everyone is getting back home.
This month we’re working with YWAM’s University of Nations Cambodia www.uofncambodia.org . With UofN we work with Wesleyan Church of Cambodia. Our ministry invovles teaching english M-F and leading youth groups, sunday school, soccer & church on the weekends. Home visits & Cambodian bible studies will also be a possibility once we get a translator. Our schedule isn’t as packed as last month so it allows our team to bond and also choose where we feel God calls us during our free time. Since we usually have a few hours a free time during the week we are going to help make lunches for street kids, cleaning the streets, pray for children at a childrens hospital, & possibly have the chance to go out to Khmer villages.
The Wesleyan Church of Cambodia we’ve been working with. This is where we teach english, lead English night/ Youth group, Sunday school & have church service
Me teaching English. We have about 35 students in the beginner class & 10 in the advanced class
Our team before church on Sunday
playing soccer with the youth
We had the opportunity to hand out extra boxed lunches to children waiting outside the Children’s Hospital. Families will wait outside in the heat for HOURS hoping their sick child will be able to see a doctor. There were probably 300 kids waiting in line when we were here
