Just remember, this schedule is what we have set for now, but as always when you go to another country and culture that is not your own things can and most likely will change. But, as Steve Winwood say’s, “roll with it baby.”

- 7:00 am  breakfast, uggg, early morning indeed

7:30-8:00 Travel to World Vision Cambodia National Office

8:00-10:00 Overview on Child Protection Program and (Q&A)

10:00-12:00 Overview on End trafficking in Person Project and (Q&A)

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:00 Travel to their kids program

2:00-3:00 Overview on other World Vision Projects

3:00-5:00 Visit field site (Detail activities will send later)

5:00-6:00 Travel back to Hotel

6:00-7:00 Rest and Dinner

7:00-8:30 Street children night outreach (only 10 people allow as 20 is too

big for the team to host)

8:00 meet to debrief the day, worship and story.

This is a pretty busy day, but it will be good and was a highlight for a lot of the team last year. We are still working out the last few details with World Vision, so please be in prayer for that.

Cool

7am We will have a few of us head into the market to shop for breakfast (picture above). You will get to shop for the fruit and bread for the morning. We usually get lots of water mellon, pineapple, apples, mango and freshly baked french bread.

8am We will eat breakfast together.

8:30 Meet upstairs for a brief orientation and prayer for the day

9:00 Head out on the city tour where we will visit S-21, The Killing Fields, The Russian Market and Wat Phnom.

12:30 Lunch out

1:30- finish the city tour and head back to the team house

5:30 Dinner at team house

7:00 Orientation by Chris, debrief and worship.

9:00 head to bed wondering how someone could be so messed up in the head to do something so devastating to a country like Cambodia. Or, we can stay up and hang out, play cards, snack, or head out for snacks.

OK, that is day 2, looking forward to doing this with you all.

Steps of Justice and Mission Adventures NZ.

“Pastor Thyven of Rock Foundation visiting Mouen in the hospital. Today Mouen seemed kind of down and really needed encouragement from Brett and Thyven. The doctors said he was having a little bit of feeling coming back into his legs and when i touched his leg he said he felt it. He doesn’t have much of a chance to walk again but please keep praying because anything is possible. He also has developed a bedsore which is not looking too bad but is very dangerous for Mouen at this point.”

If you would like to follow the Rock Foundation in Cambodia you can do that here. Lets keep praying for healing for Mouen and his family through this time, specifically as his wife is due with there baby very soon.

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Have a great day.

Today Washington celebrates 150 years since President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation freeing slaves living in the nations capital. This happend 9 months prior to the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation that liberated slaves in rebellious states.

“One year into the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln was under great pressure to end slavery in the nation. But slavery was legal in Washington, DC, as well as in several states that were loyal to the Union. Lincoln knew that if he were to free the enslaved here, he would greatly anger the slave-owners, whom he relied on to be loyal to the Union. So Lincoln decided to free DC’s enslaved population but also to pay, or “compensate,” the owners for the loss of their human “property ” so that they would stay loyal. On April 16, he issued “an act for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia.” In it he noted that owners would be compensated and that money would be appropriated to relocate freedmen and women in Africa.” Taken from Article 

When I heard about this holiday on NPR today I was excited and encouraged. But, in reading the above paragraph I am actually sickened a bit by the fact that people would get angry for having to release their slaves. Seriously, was there no value of human life? Was there no thought that maybe, just maybe people who were not white were still children of God, the God who America was built on? I guess this still is the case today in may circumstances when it comes to prejudice and not valuing human life. Something similar to this is going on in Norway as I write.

Regardless, today is a day to celebrate freedom in the USA and a day to pray for Justice in Norway. I am thankful we are still celebrating the abolition of slavery and the victory of justice, I just pray that we keep moving in that direction and see a beautiful world filled with people doing justice and honoring one another.

My thought, take your idea, flesh it out, run with your passion and faith and make it happen. Do something, do it now.

Read Do The Work for more inspiration.