Salamat Detang! Welcome to Malaysia.
I apologize for my deliquency in blog posts over the past few weeks. We “safely” arrived in Malaysia after 42 hours of travel from the small village of El Nido, Philippines. After 8 hours on a bus, a 7 hour lay over, 1 hour flight, 14 hour lay over, 4 hour flight, 5 hour lay over, 1 hour bus ride, a few stops on the KL train and brisk walk through the bustling city streets and we arrived at our ministry site. PHEW we were exhausted. Oh yeah…. I might have visited the wonderful Kuala Lempur state of the art hospital for yet another bought with my pesky little parasite. I am now fully healed after getting proper medical care. The price for a sketchy jungle doctor, $200. Cost of trained and accredited physician, $15.43. Go figure….
Our ministry this month is right up my alley, sustainable agriculture. We are working with a pastor, using business as mission, who grow crops in the outlying jungle villages that would otherwise have no outlet in which to earn a living. We spent our first week painting the offices at the headquarters in Kualua Lempur (KL) and building a 
cold storage room for plant and vegetable storage. Using only an imagination, a caulk gun and some discarded sheets of styrofoam insulation we were able to successfully complete the task at hand. “
cold storage room for plant and vegetable storage. Using only an imagination, a caulk gun and some discarded sheets of styrofoam insulation we were able to successfully complete the task at hand. “This week they put us to work in teh fields. We ventured into the jungle to a village called Chimpion to farm the fields with the locals and teach the children english. To reach the village the 7 happy Habibis piled into a small orange tractor and braved the one hour dirt treck up the side of the mounatin. After a week of work and sleeping on a floor with spiders the size of New Jersey, taking bucket showers, and embracing a beautiful group of people, we have earned a day’s rest in a near by town.
Tomorrow we enter the majestic, beautiful and heartwarming jungle once more. I can only hope some of the magic found there was not erased as we ventured back into civilization.
