We are safe and sound in Cambodia!!! We are working with one other team this month and all 14 of us are living in a tiny space where we are all sleeping on the floor with mosquito nets and taking bucket showers and going to the bathroom in squatty potties and roughing it!! I love it!!
This month our ministry is very spread out and we are doing a lot. We are mostly working in villages talking with people and building relationships with them. We are going to village in the dump where people sift through bags of trash people drop off and live off of what ever they can find. They sell anything they can find and try to scrape anything to survive. It is really hard to watch. There were about 10 houses on a street and on each side of the street were 2 swamps that were filled with trash and honestly just disgusting. But this is what they live in everyday, and have for their whole life.
We are working with a village on stilts, which means they are up really high to protect against flooding that happens every year. We spent the day doing a Bible study with the adults and praying for healing and sickness. Also playing with the kids, doing games, songs, and we taught a kids Bible study on Jonah.
The last village we went to is a village against a rock mountain. This was very interesting to see, something I had never seen before. There were 10-15 houses scattered through out the village with lots of kids running around, which is normal. But their daily work was what interested me the most. They chip away at this huge mountain to get stone, crush it up to various sizes and sell it by the truck load. 1 truck full of stone (think of a normal stone delivery truck size, fairly big) brings in around $15. $15 for SO much work. The trick is, these people are technically squatting on government property and could be kicked out at any time (they have been there for 16 years) but still. So the only reason why the trucks come to pick up stone from them is because they sell the rock for cheap. They survive off of these trucks, and if they don’t come for some reason, they are stuck, hungry and with a big pile of rocks. Crazy!!
So for the first week this is what we have done, but we plan to do so much more this month!! We want to go into the red light district here and do ministry for a few nights, we are evangelizing throughout many different villages and working a lot with the church we attend. So it should be a really good month!!! I will update everyone later on in the month.
P.S. My next and LAST support deadline in at the end of next month and I still need $4,000. If you can please spread the world and help me or support me that would be AMAZING so I can finish out the race strong!!! Thank you!!!
