Hello! Here is your long awaited update!
THIS is the week! I leave on Friday for Atlanta where I’ll meet the rest of the team and have some team training for a few days. Then we head out to CAMBODIA!
HOW can you and I stay in touch?
GROUP BLOG!!! http://cambodia.adventures.org/ (Please SUBSCRIBE to the blog- that way you will receive updates whenever I, or a team member, post new updates for you! You will find an area prompting you to subscribe on the top left of the blog.) I will NO longer be updating you via this blog, so PLEAE subscribe to the new blog so we can stay in touch! 🙂
WHAT ministry are we working with?
Transform Asia!!! Check them out at http://www.transformasia.us/
WHO are we ministering to?
The lovely students at the Battambang Trade School! Check out more about the school and how YOU can be more involved in fighting against sex-trafficking at http://www.transformasia.us/stop_the_trade/trade-school2
**Please note that for only $39 a month "you can support one of these girls to study at the Trade School where they not only receive new opportunity but they have the chance to receive new life in Christ"!
HERE is a fantastic excerpt from Transform Asia’s website that explains a bit more about what I’ll be doing, who we’ll be ministering to, and why it’s so important!
[Transform Asia’s] vision for Cambodia is to provide rescued girls a safe place to recover and rebuild their lives. Their Battambang Trade School gives at-risk girls the opportunity to learn a skill and avoid being drawn into the sex trade. An excerpt from your ministry host:
"Years ago Transform Asia began rescuing girls from brothels. We soon realized that they would need to provide life skills, training and vocational opportunities for the girls to become self-supporting. So, they started the Women’s New development Center. This has become very successful and hundreds of young women have graduated over the years, getting jobs or opening their own shops. Many of these ladies are now happily married."
Today the Trade School is a part of Transform Asia's Battambang Christian Center where we share God's love with these girls by providing English classes, computer training, and classes to teach the girls sewing skills so that they can start their own tailor businesses or work in the garment industry. The girls live at the Trade School for up to 8 months where they are able to safely learn about a trade. This trade gives them value as they are now able to help support their families and no longer need to look at prostitution as a source of income.
Well, I’m about to set off! I’m nervous, excited, sad to leave y’all behind and already looking forward to sharing new stories soon of how God is working in peoples’ lives on the other side of the world! Please pray for courage, more faith, team unity and that the girls we will be working with to be transformed by the Gospel of our King, Jesus Christ.
Much love!
Sarah
