In May, we received word that the Fellowship of Mennonite Churches in Taiwan had made a generous donation to MCC’s earthquake response in Myanmar. The church in Taiwan is no stranger to earthquakes having experienced their own 7.4 magnitude earthquake in 2024. We decided to extend our home leave layover in Taiwan by a few days so…
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What The Upswing says about Society, Isolation, Solidarity, and the Church
Last year I joined a biweekly book club – organized by MCC alumni Mike Roberts – where each member leads a meeting by sharing on a book that they’ve found interesting or insightful. Recently I shared on The Upswing by Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett. The central thesis of The Upswing begins by arguing…
Sermon: God’s Work In Myanmar
In May, we received word that the Fellowship of Mennonite Churches in Taiwan had made a generous donation to MCC’s earthquake response in Myanmar. The church in Taiwan is no stranger to earthquakes having experienced their own 7.4 magnitude earthquake in 2024. We decided to extend our home leave layover in Taiwan by a few…
Meeting with Hội Thánh Mennonite Việt Nam
This week I traveled to Viêt Nam with Minear, our Connecting Peoples Coordinator, to meet with the Vietnam Mennonite Church (Hội Thánh Mennonite Việt Nam) at their General Office in Ho Chi Minh city. The purpose of our visit was to reestablish collaboration between MCC and VMC for the purpose of resuming Vietnamese Mennonite participation in…
Where do I go to Church in Phnom Penh?
Crystal, Catherine, and Charlotte usually attend church at the International Christian Fellowship of Phnom Penh. ICF is an international, inter-denominational, and independent English language Christian church in Phnom Penh. The people who make up the church come from multiple nationalities and many denominations. As for Caleb and I, we usually visit a variety of Cambodian…
2024 Prison Fellowship Cambodia Annual Conference
We’re aware of three organizations working in prisons in Cambodia. Two of the three – Peace Bridges and Khmer Vulnerability Aid Organization – are already current MCC partners, Prison Fellowship Cambodia is the other. I’ve been wanting to connect with Prison Fellowship to see if we could work towards a partnership with them too but…
Visiting Bokor Mountain during Rainy Season
Last month we were in Kampot for a teambuilding retreat and, afterwards, our family decided to drive up into Preah Monivong Bokor National Park to see how things had changed since I was last there (in 2007, I think?). Bokor is a mountain near the coast and marks the southeastern end of the Cardamom mountain…
Reblog: Finding My Seat at the Table
I wanted to share a blog post by Kiron Mateti that was posted by Mennonite Church USA. Kiron is a member of Plains Mennonite Church and his wife, Rachel, actually went to the same Christian school as my youngest brother Tim for awhile. I love how he writes about going from multicultural to intercultural. It’s…
How many Christians are in Cambodia?
As part of their horrific year zero policies the Khmer Rouge regime banned all religious practice in Cambodia and persecuted the local Christian Church almost to extinction. Buddhist institutions were allowed to reform soon after the regime was driven from power but Christianity remained illegal throughout the 1980s and the few Cambodian Christian believers who…
Home Leave 2022
Next month we will finally be on our long delayed first home leave. We will be spending June in Pennsylvania/New Jersey, United States and July in Saskatchewan, Canada. Home leave is not purely a time of respite and reconnection, we will still have some meetings and work to do, but we are looking forward to…