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 [...]
“Now that my servant Moses is dead, you must lead my people across the Jordan River into the land I am giving them” Joshua 1:2 (NLT).
Dear Friends,
Darany receiving an award on behalf of IC KCC from our provincial governor last year. IC KCC was one of only a handful of NGOs to receive governmental [...]
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 [...]
“This is the Year Zero, and nothing has gone before.”
-Dith Pran, The Killing Fields
Dear Friends,
In most of the world it is the year 2007. In Islamic cultures, they would say it is the year 1428 A.H. For the Chinese it is the year 4705. In Cambodia, it is the year 32. Just over [...]
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 [...]
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A recent picture of me with my two children
Introduction
Greetings from Kompong Cham! Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Danny Colombara. I’m 32 years old, married, with a 3-year-old son and a 3-month-old daughter. I met Jesus in a fraternity house in 1993 and haven’t lived [...]
“Is Jesus Khmer?”
-Silas, Easter Sunday 2007
Dear Friends,
While feasting at a church Easter banquet, Silas came running up to Anita with a burning question, “Is Jesus Khmer?” Anita laughed and asked, “Why do you think Jesus is Khmer?” Silas responded, “Because he’s speaking Khmer in the [Jesus Film] movie!” Since that time, I’ve thought about Silas’ [...]
As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” Jesus replied, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
— Luke 9:57-58 (NIV)
Dear Friends,
For years, reading verses like the one above incited [...]
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 [...]