Dear Friends,
Saying goodbye to Lyheu, one of our closest Cambodian friends, whom we met in our first neighborhood, Beng Trabek.
By the time you receive this final JBF newsletter, we will have already moved back to the United States. We are looking forward to making Seattle our new home. Upon arrival, Danny will begin [...]
Dear Friends,
We are all packed and ready to head out tomorrow! Please pray for
* a safe and uneventful journey.
* Silas’s health. He has had giardia for a while and today has a
fever too.
* Danny’s meetings [...]
Dear Praying friends,
Thank you so much for laboring on our behalf. We have really been feeling uplifted by your prayers these days as our time in Cambodia is coming quickly to an end.
Sunrise - Three of the most amazing people in Cambodia have committed to serving on the board of governance for InnerCHANGE-KCC (a.k.a. Sunrise)! [...]
Dear Prayer warriors,
We know some of you out there must be praying BIG TIME for us. Right after we sent out the last prayer update:
1) Cassia was healed! Within a few hours of sending the email she went back to normal!
2) Danny slept for 10 hours straight! And then 7 hours straight last night (woke [...]
Dear friends.
Thanks for all your prayers and support. We really need them as we come close to the final stretch.
Seattle - On May 23 we leave Cambodia and fly into Seattle where Danny will be attending University of Washington for the next few years. We are really excited but still need some things to [...]
Dear Friends,
A dance troop from a local church came to bless us with three sets of performances.
What was the biggest Christmas bash you have ever been to? I am not much of a holiday person, but this year was something else. We celebrated Christmas with over 700 people from the community.
Every year, Sunrise sponsors a [...]
“I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine you did for me.”
Dear Friends,Do you remember Trakuen? I wrote about her two years ago when she was just starting to learn how to read (you can see that October 2005 newsletter at www.colombara.org/cambodia). She [...]
Dear Friends,
If someone where to ask you, “What is this?” regarding the picture above, how would you respond? I’m guessing you wouldn’t have to think too long before saying, “A circle”. However, most Cambodians would not respond as such. Instead, they are more likely to say a plate, an orange, the moon, etc. Why is [...]
Dear prayer folks,
April is the height of hot/dry season. It’s been sweltering the last few weeks but has cooled down a bit the last few days. We have found Kampong Cham a little bit cooler than Phnom Penh. We think it is mainly because the electricity in this small town is more stable than in [...]
Dear Friends,
This past semester I taught a class at the Phnom Penh Bible College on “The Biblical View of Poverty and Our Response”. My initial goal was for these future Christian leaders to understand what God says about poverty in order to strategically mobilize their churches in response. We looked at topics like, “What is [...]