Author: Adventures

My time in Cambodia…

Well we have officially settled into what will be our home for the next month and it has been nothing short of amazing. At first it was a somewhat crazy transition from meeting so many new people at training camp to all the travel days and bumps not just along the road but also on our very turbulent flight to Cambodia before ultimately landing at the orphanage and sleeping in the sanctuary with no A/C. Despite all of that these past couple weeks have been so fulfilling. As real and present as the struggles and things we don’t have are, I don’t feel led to share those stories....

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PSINE (Pea-Sant)

Has been living at Maramba Old People’s Home since 1997. Psine met and married his wife at the home. Both Psine and his wife are legally blind but they tend to their daily chores around the home. ?Psine is standing in his garden, even though his eyes are riddled with cataracts, he toils in his garden daily. He knows where he plants each crop and he tends them. Once they are ready for harvesting, he will sell his crops and begin reworking the soil. 

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PSINE (Pea-Sant)

Has been living at Maramba Old People’s Home since 1997. Psine met and married his wife at the home. Both Psine and his wife are legally blind but they tend to their daily chores around the home. ?Psine is standing in his garden, even though his eyes are riddled with cataracts, he toils in his garden daily. He knows where he plants each crop and he tends them. Once they are ready for harvesting, he will sell his crops and begin reworking the soil. 

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Sophia

Sophia became a Christ follower when she was in her 20s. She loves to read the Word each day even though the print is small and her eyesight is failing. This morning we studying the Bible together, Sophia would first read in Tonga and then I would read in English. What a wonderful time of encouragement studying the Word together!

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“Who me? Really?”

“Sin City? What possessed you to want to stay there?” Jacó, Costa Rica boasts a range of intimidatingly natural beauty by day. The exotic flowers in bold red and orange hues. The mountains stretching across the dark sandy beaches. The colorfully painted smoothie shacks along the coastal streets. As my team and I go into our fourth week here in Jacó, the “darkness” that covers this beach town after the sunset has become more and more difficult to ignore. Often if we mention our new hometown, others respond with a look of confusion, wondering why we are...

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“Who me? Really?”

“Sin City? What possessed you to want to stay there?” Jacó, Costa Rica boasts a range of intimidatingly natural beauty by day. The exotic flowers in bold red and orange hues. The mountains stretching across the dark sandy beaches. The colorfully painted smoothie shacks along the coastal streets. As my team and I go into our fourth week here in Jacó, the “darkness” that covers this beach town after the sunset has become more and more difficult to ignore. Often if we mention our new hometown, others respond with a look of confusion, wondering why we are...

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