Here is a schedule of my crazy, fun, challenging day to day life here in the little town of Kampong Thom!
6:00am
I wake up and do my individual devotional/ time with the Lord. This allows me to start each day with my father! Monday’s I do get up a little earlier because we have devotionals that my team leads with the teachers at the school.
7:30am
My team goes out for breakfast before school starts. Breakfast usually consists of either fresh fruit from a little food stand or 75 cent coffee.
8:00am
We arrive to our new ministry at Good Seed School. This is a school created and built up by our host Soking and his family. It is a smaller school where I will be either painting or teaching English to a class of 3-4 year olds for the next two months!
11:00
The kids are dismissed to home for lunch and rest in the middle of day. We walk back to our own home right down the road. Our house has been such a peaceful sanctuary for both my teammates and I since we have arrived here.
11:30
We have team devotionals back at home, this is where I just get to sit with the Lord. This could be just sitting and praying, reading my book Everybody Always by Bob Goff (highly recommend it), painting with watercolor, journaling, or listening to music.
12:30pm
My team goes back to school for lunch, where we all eat on the ground amongst all the staff of the school and our host. We usually eat rice for lunch each day. You really get used to rice here!
2:00pm
We go back to our classes with the same teachers but different students in the afternoons. Depending on the day I may be teaching the whole class or helping out while she teaches. The teachers here are learning English as the students are, so sometimes it is a struggle for them. The students get recess breaks, we sing a lot of basic songs, the classrooms are smaller than my room back home, and the power tends to go off quite a bit but I love the school and the happiness it radiates!
- After lunch on every other day I will have the afternoon off from school ministry to rest, focus on my own walk with God, or go do evangelism either on the streets, with the kids during break, in the coffee shops, or in the market.
5:00pm
The kids go home for the day, as well as me and a couple other teammates. I get until around 6:40pm for free time, that is when my other teammates come home from teaching the evening classes with the older students. I have been going for runs/ working out with my teammates and my team leader Abigail. We will see how long the whole exercise thing lasts haha. In the time between now and dinner you could catch me listening to music while painting or journaling, bringing laundry, or watching movies.
7:00pm
Once evening classes are done and the other half of the team comes back we go for dinner either from food stands, cheap restaurants, or the people at the school cook again for us (rice).
8:00pm
We usually start team time around then. Each night we do something different. On Monday’s we have journey markers, Tuesday is blogging, Wednesday is feedback, Thursday is a free night where the leaders decide what we will be doing, and Friday is a week debrief.
Life here in Kampong Thom is very quiet compared to the big cities of Battambang and Siem Riep, where we previously stayed. I love how intentional and personal it is here. I know the lady I get my coffee from everyday and I get the opportunity to grow relationships with the people we buy fruit from in the market on a regular basis. I love playing soccer with the students that live at the school! I love seeing my students with their families at the one and only coffee shop we have here and them yelling teacher teacher!
This is my new home for the next 2 months, I hope you got a good insite into it through my pictures and confusing/packed schedule and just love it as much as I do! I by no means would be here and have the opportunity to do this without all of your endless support and Gods greater plan! With that being said I am still looking for a few more donations towards my funding goal in order for me to continue ministry into Ethiopia, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica! It still shocks me daily that the Lord has taken me from a life lacking in a deeper relationship with Him and called me here to be renewed and see what it really looks like to rely on your faith. I am learning so much about myself, my creator, and how to live more missionally. The prayers and encouragement mean so much to me, I adore reading each and every one of your comments and messages! Thank you and much love from Cambodia!
