The big disappointment we had when we arrived two weeks ago was that Sumo the cat had disappeared 1-2 weeks before we arrived. By the time we had been here almost 2 weeks I thought there was no way that Sumo would be back but… Needless to say the girls are very happy.
Three Churches in Cambodia
I thought you might be interested in seeing some some photos of the three Churches in Cambodia that I’ve visited (only one on Sunday) since arriving last week. Prey Veng Christian Centre This is one of the two churches that I usually attended when I lived in Prey Veng ten years ago (the other was…
First Low Point
We’ve been working on setting up a kids room at the house so the girls have their own space. We also thought it would be great for hosting families and might occasionally double as a therapy room for Crystal. We picked what had been the computer room – it’s in the hall between the kitchen…
First Monday Devotion
Crystal led team devotion this morning for MCC Cambodia. She had us build a house with Duplos without using our thumbs. Then, halfway through, she let us start using our thumbs but told us we couldn’t bend our elbows! Crystal asked us if it was harder to complete a task without using a part of…
Prey Veng Education Program Ten Years Later
On Day 6 in Cambodia (yesterday), I got out into the countryside on my first field visit to see Chhourn Maly at work. This visit was at the Kraing Kaet Primary School. I was the initial Partner Adviser for the education program in Prey Veng during my first term with MCC and it’s exciting to…
Along the Sewage Canal
One of my hobbies when I would visit Phnom Penh during my last term was to walk around the city. It is not a gentrified city, instead the poor live in makeshift homes squeezed into any free bit of land they can find. They live there until the land is sold out from under them,…
Our Trip from Pennsylvania to Phnom Penh
We were given a ride to the airport by a very interesting young Mennonite from Paraguay. He was volunteering for a year with MCC’s meat canner and planned to enter seminary on his return home. Originally, he was drawn to working as a Missionary in Nepal but had since felt called to the Low German…
Arrival in Cambodia
We arrived Saturday morning to our new home in Phnom Penh Cambodia to a wonderfully warm reception. After 32 hours of travel, house to house, we were so grateful to simply have arrived! The Exchange Coordinators, Philip and Belen picked us up from the airport with their smiling 8 month old and transported us home…
Safely in Phnom Penh
We hope to write a longer post about our trip soon but I wanted to put up a quick one letting everyone know that we arrived safely in Phnom Penh yesterday. The flights went well – even the 14 hour one – though the transfer at Hong Kong was the worst I’ve had in my…
First Flights
We will soon be boarding American Airlines Flight 772 to Los Angeles. We are scheduled to arrive around 11:30PM. Our flight to Hong Kong is scheduled to depart at 1:30AM and we have to switch from domestic to international, so we probably won’t have time for an update then. You can track our flight to…