A Facebook post by our Crossroads Brother, Mesa Kak.
(Tuesday, 11am EST):
"Thanking God for mission team member from (Tuesday, 11am EST):
Westover Church (USA) teaching at Pillars Church today."
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Monday, November 17, 2014
First day in Cambodia
We are so excited for our first full day here in Cambodia! It's hard to believe that we are on the other side of the world. All of us are rested up and bright-eyed for the days ahead. Praise the Lord for our safe travels!
We cannot wait to get started teaching and go to the village tomorrow. Today, we will be meeting our students and begin our first lesson with them. We were not expecting to be able to go to the village, but we are very thankful that we will have this fantastic opportunity. May the Lord bless our time with these wonderful people!
Sincerely and with love,
The Cambodia Team
We cannot wait to get started teaching and go to the village tomorrow. Today, we will be meeting our students and begin our first lesson with them. We were not expecting to be able to go to the village, but we are very thankful that we will have this fantastic opportunity. May the Lord bless our time with these wonderful people!
Sincerely and with love,
The Cambodia Team
They've Arrived!
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| Seeing this post was the BEST way to start the day! Praise you Father! And my thanks to Potra! (Received Monday, 6:55 AM EST and posted by a very happy Aunt Valerie.) |
Please continue to pray for good health and a precious times of fellowship and maturing in Jesus. May it all bring honor and glory to God!
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| And an added praise, it looks as though all the luggage made it! Thank you for your prayers |
Saturday, November 15, 2014
...And They're Off!!!
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| Covered in prayer, our terrific trio (and family) head to Raleigh on a brisk and beautiful fall morning. |
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| Packing precious cargo. |
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| The Bibles will be used during the ESL training. |
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| Passports and Boarding Passes in hand... |
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| ...and flashing the peace sign! They are SO very ready for photos with Carrie and the Crossroads students! |
Our First Prayer Requests :-) (First posted by BA on Fri. 11-14-14):
- flights to be on-time
- enjoy all those hours in the air (may they "fly" by)
- ability to sleep (bolt upright, how hard can it be?)
- Britt - 1st time flying!
Flights: Raleigh to Chicago Saturday 2:10pm to 3:20pm (2 hrs)
Chicago to Doha, Qatar Sat, 7:25pm to Sun, 5:40pm (13 hrs)
Doha to Phnom Penh Mon, 1am to 2:55pm (10 hrs)
Thank you for caring about us and joining us on this journey.
We'll end with sharing our Team Verse:
We'll end with sharing our Team Verse:
"The people walking in darkness have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of deep darkness
a light has dawned." - Isaiah 9:2 (NIV)
Friday, November 14, 2014
We're Ready to Fly!!
We've been preparing to leave for over 6 months! Many wonderful hours of developing curriculum, figuring out art lessons and fun activities. Now it's almost time to board the plane(s). Our first prayer requests :-)
- flights to be on-time
- enjoy all those hours in the air (may they "fly" by)
- ability to sleep (bolt upright, how hard can it be?)
- Britt - 1st time flying!
Flights - Raleigh to Chicago Saturday 2.10pm to 3:20pm (2 hrs)
Chicago to Doha, Qatar (Saturday) 7.25pm to (Sunday) 5.40pm (13 hrs)
Doha to Phnom Penh (Monday) 1am to 2.55pm (10 hrs)
Thank you for caring about us & joining us on this journey. We'll end with sharing our Team Verse:
The people walking in darkness
have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of deep darkness
a light has dawned. Isaiah 9:2 (NIV)
Monday, October 27, 2014
The 2014 ESL Team
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| From left to right: Ele, Brittney, and BA. |
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| The Crossroads students worship together in song. |
This ESL team will use Bible stories to teach English to the students, as well as Cambodians in remote jungle villages. In addition to teaching, Ele, Brittney and BA look forward to the time they will spend in prayer and Bible study with the students. Through education and fellowship, they desire to be an extension of God’s overflowing love and grace to the Cambodian people.
Friday, March 2, 2012
Homeward Bound
After such a fun evening, at the surprise party, I REALLY thought that I was going to "skip" the barrage of tears. WRONG again.
Mesa and a bunch of the students came early this morning and wanted to go out for one last breakfast. We chose to go back to the market. I will blame it ALL on Mesa, because he cries easily....but as we walked to the market, he squeezed my arm so hard that it just started the tears flowing. And then they were hard to stop as students kept joining us or popping in to say goodbye.
Kouch, who's nickname means "dimple" kept saying, "Please don't cry Grandma. We need you to smile."I was TRYING, Kouch! After another long round of goodbyes and tears, Pastor Rathana had a time of prayer before I got into the truck. Kids kept piling in behind me, so I knew that the goodbyes were going to end at Crossroads. At one point, I looked at the window and there were several motorbikes riding two or three kids....on their way to the airport. Before we left, Vuthea presented me with a leather cowboy type hat. He and the students on the medical mission out to the Pepper Plantation had gotten up at 4 to make the 5 hour journey, on motorbike, OUCH, to be there to say goodbye. He was sporting the same kind of hat, and his thought.....we will both pray for one another when we wear our hats :)
The time had come for me to go board the plane.....more tears, more prayer.... They were so funny....just like a bunch of kids, because they would run from window to window, until I got on the escalator and they would all run to each window and we would do the hand to hand...nose to nose on the glass!! Precious memories
Singapore began the Paradigm shift, since it is considered the #1 Airport in the world. So clean. So many orchids. So many well dressed travelers from every tribe and tongue and nation intersecting at this Cosmopolitan airport. I sat at a Quiznos and had a little breakfast......No man sitting 6 feet away shaving a pigs' ear like the day before! No animals of every sort hanging all around us. I wasn't sharing a table with any number of people who started their rice porridge breakfast as a stranger, but by the end of the meal we had exchanged pleasantries. Me speaking my oh, so limited Khmer, and them laughing at my efforts.
My trusty pink, Mary Poppins like carry all that has gone around the world with me a few times .....died!! I usually carry so much stuff, so that every emergency is cared for....mostly has candy for the kids we meet. So Jessica had produced a white paper recycle bag, like the $.99 kind from the grocery store and that carried my Khmer phone, and American phone, passports, wallet, etc etc. I was looking quite professional there at the table in Singapore. I had ALL the handmade bracelets that the various kids had given as a farewell gift, AND the Cowboy hat, AND my finely painted toes with daisies, AND my "I am NOT FAT, I am stuffed with Love T-shirt that Pipor had made for me......and of course, no Princess would be seen out without her Pearls.....a necklace and bracelet set from Potra and Chenda. I was quite a sight.
I have not been sick a moment
I have had the energy of a 4 year old
That is sooooo God and so YOU for praying for me. Thank you, Thank you Thank you. You are the BEST prayer team EVER.
I am looking very much forward to being reunited with Lynn, and talking to my family.....even though I won't see any of them in the near future......but I am also very thankful that God gave me that month+ to love on 85 precious students and to see and be part of what God is doing in Phnom Pehn, Cambodia
Mesa and a bunch of the students came early this morning and wanted to go out for one last breakfast. We chose to go back to the market. I will blame it ALL on Mesa, because he cries easily....but as we walked to the market, he squeezed my arm so hard that it just started the tears flowing. And then they were hard to stop as students kept joining us or popping in to say goodbye.
Kouch, who's nickname means "dimple" kept saying, "Please don't cry Grandma. We need you to smile."I was TRYING, Kouch! After another long round of goodbyes and tears, Pastor Rathana had a time of prayer before I got into the truck. Kids kept piling in behind me, so I knew that the goodbyes were going to end at Crossroads. At one point, I looked at the window and there were several motorbikes riding two or three kids....on their way to the airport. Before we left, Vuthea presented me with a leather cowboy type hat. He and the students on the medical mission out to the Pepper Plantation had gotten up at 4 to make the 5 hour journey, on motorbike, OUCH, to be there to say goodbye. He was sporting the same kind of hat, and his thought.....we will both pray for one another when we wear our hats :)
The time had come for me to go board the plane.....more tears, more prayer.... They were so funny....just like a bunch of kids, because they would run from window to window, until I got on the escalator and they would all run to each window and we would do the hand to hand...nose to nose on the glass!! Precious memories
Singapore began the Paradigm shift, since it is considered the #1 Airport in the world. So clean. So many orchids. So many well dressed travelers from every tribe and tongue and nation intersecting at this Cosmopolitan airport. I sat at a Quiznos and had a little breakfast......No man sitting 6 feet away shaving a pigs' ear like the day before! No animals of every sort hanging all around us. I wasn't sharing a table with any number of people who started their rice porridge breakfast as a stranger, but by the end of the meal we had exchanged pleasantries. Me speaking my oh, so limited Khmer, and them laughing at my efforts.
My trusty pink, Mary Poppins like carry all that has gone around the world with me a few times .....died!! I usually carry so much stuff, so that every emergency is cared for....mostly has candy for the kids we meet. So Jessica had produced a white paper recycle bag, like the $.99 kind from the grocery store and that carried my Khmer phone, and American phone, passports, wallet, etc etc. I was looking quite professional there at the table in Singapore. I had ALL the handmade bracelets that the various kids had given as a farewell gift, AND the Cowboy hat, AND my finely painted toes with daisies, AND my "I am NOT FAT, I am stuffed with Love T-shirt that Pipor had made for me......and of course, no Princess would be seen out without her Pearls.....a necklace and bracelet set from Potra and Chenda. I was quite a sight.
I have not been sick a moment
I have had the energy of a 4 year old
That is sooooo God and so YOU for praying for me. Thank you, Thank you Thank you. You are the BEST prayer team EVER.
I am looking very much forward to being reunited with Lynn, and talking to my family.....even though I won't see any of them in the near future......but I am also very thankful that God gave me that month+ to love on 85 precious students and to see and be part of what God is doing in Phnom Pehn, Cambodia
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