Thursday, January 26, 2006

My Suitemates Return!


notice how their beds and desks are covered in newspaper by pranksters.


austin and ben just returned from uganda after a long 20+ hour plane trip.  both are covered in lots of facial hair and look very tired.  now i won’t be so lonely since ian’s in chicago!  they tell me that the trip was very touching and experiencing poverty first-hand has changed their perspectives.  austin tells me about how he almost broke down when they visited an orphanage filled with kids who were HIV-positive. 

that reminds me of my mission trip to cambodia a while ago where we visited an orphanage filled with kids between the ages of 1 to 18.  the sad part about that orphanage is that those kids will never be adopted because of corruption in the adoption system.  they will stay in the orphanage until they are old enough to live by temselves.  they work together as a self-sustaining community with plantations for food.


some pictures from the cambodia trip follow…


the country is so dusty that we have to filter our air


beautiful country


the local street market


the restaurant at our hotel


kids at the orphanage


kids at a local school


this trip was really… busy.  our days were spent traveling from school to school to perform english skits and songs.  this is not a Christian country, so we were also using our skits and songs to communicate the salvation message.  eventually, the cambodian government discovered that we, a group of Christians, was in their country and they ordered us to restrain from teaching the children songs.  i found that puzzling… we were not allowed to teach the kids Bible songs but we could preach and perform dramas.  maybe it’s cuz little kids remember songs better.  i bet God was also working in the situation too.

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