Playing with the kids

We've had an awesome week down here. Just about all the team is feeling better so we've been back at full speed. We've worked hard this week on the wall and all we have left is to paint the outside. It's been a cool testimony to people driving by to see a bunch of westerners working so hard. One guy driving by stopped to ask what we were doing. We found out he runs an HIV orphanage in town. He asked us to pray for their funding as their supporters have stopped. We hope to be finished with the wall on Tuesday. Wednesday this week was a holiday so we hung out with the kids all day. It was so much fun. We played games in the morning and took them to the beach in the afternoon. Then we ate dinner and went to worship with them. They are so crazy when they worship the Lord. It's exciting for us to be a part of. They are going to be so sad when we leave on Thursday and we will be too. They have given us to many gifts with the little things they have.

One cool story for me from Wednesday was when I went to hang out with some of the little boys. They were in kindergarden and I had taught English to them. They came running over saying, "teacher, teacher." Then they started counting to 10 (which we taught them) and singing the song "head and shoulders." It was one of those moments where you realize that what you are doing is really making a difference. We've been sharing the love of Jesus with these kids in a powerful way.

Last night six of us went to do some prostitute ministry. It is so hard for us to understand why these girls are in this line of work and why so many old white men come here for holiday for the girls. We didn't really know the best way to minister to them so we just tried to be friendly and treat them with respect. The street where all the prostitutes were is pretty hidden so the only reason anyone would go there would be for that. Men can hire girls for $10 a night. We talked about it on the way back and tried to figure out what we can do about the issue. I'm hoping the other girls team will head down here for a week when they are in Cambodia because that is the focus of their ministry.

Most of the team is out on a boat ride now for our day off. The food this week has been excellent. We found a cheap restaurant down on the beach that we've enjoyed as well as eating with the orphanage. They always give us more food than we can finish. God's really been blessing us. As were were doing worship on the roof last night, there was a fireworks show down on the beach. It was one of those moments where you just say to yourself, "life is good." Yeah outreach hasn't been the easiest time for our team, but the more we stay focused on Christ the more we see all the blessings he has given us here. God's been taking care of us so much. Keep praying that we'd be bold and step out in faith in sharing the Gospel cause that's what we're here for. Pray we woudn't settle for the things we have planned but living a lifestyle of evangelism...always showing the love of Jesus to everyone. We leave here on Thursday at 8am to head back to Phnom Penh for 2 nights before heading to Thailand.