Navigating your way to Cambodia

Welcome back to the Mission Adventures Plus Cambodia blog. The intent is to keep you interested and  excited about the opportunity to go to Cambodia in 2010. There are many ways to navigate through this page. You can look at the top right and you will find page tabs that say:

Home

Dates and cost

General Info

Registration Page

Things to bring

These are designed to give you quick and easy info on the Cambodia trip. Also, on the right side you will find links to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), a great travel agent named Carol and the Mission Adventures Plus site. If you have any questions regarding the blog or the trip you can always contact me on the General info page.

Thanks and have a great week.

Phil and MA Plus.

My heart for Cambodia

So for your reading enjoyment here are some reasons why I like Cambodia. The first time that I went there was in the spring of 2005. I am pretty sure that as soon as I arrived I felt like I was a kid in Disney Land. I couldn’t stop looking around at the people, the traffic and the countryside. It was a completely different world than I have ever seen before, but I felt at home immediately. It was just this beautiful, hot, busy, surreal place.

I love the times that I have gotten to spend with teams doing outreach in Cambodia. Working on building projects, playing with children, praying over and around the country has changed my life for ever. I have learned so much from Cambodia. I have learned about family, hardship, joy, pain, loss, poverty and celebration. I will continue to go back there as long as Jesus allows, I would love you to join me.

One of the things that I was drawn to in Cambodia was the history. During the period between 1975-1979, in my lifetime, a third of the population was murdered, or died as a result of a revolution by the Khmer Rouge. I remember the first time I went to the prison that a bunch of the executions took place at. The feelings of rage and sadness were almost unbearable. I also remember walking through the Killing Fields where thousands of bodies were laid in mass graves. I can still see the shrouds of clothes and pieces of human bone that are sticking out of the ground as a raw remembrance of what happened. Jesus heart for this country is huge and he has give us the privilege to carry his heart and desire for the Cambodians to know him.

I remember the 4th time I went to Cambodia I met a girl with HIV named Kita, pictured below. Kita was living in an orphanage with approx. 100 more children who were either already sick, or about to be as they were all infected with the HIV virus. It didn’t take long before Kita and I connected. The second day I showed up she was the 1st person to greet me and we bonded the rest of the week. Kita and I never were able to speak to each other, because of language, but she did show me her room, let me know that she loved being flipped upside down and love to cuddle and laugh. I will always remember Kita. I wonder where she is today and how she is doing.

I would love you to come with me to S. E. Asia and meet more Kitas, and fall in love with Jesus in a new and adventurous way. I would love to build houses with you, paint churches, play with children who are orphans and experience Gods heart for his poor and needy in S. E. Asia. Jesus has called us to Do Justice (Micah 6:8), to look after the orphan and the widow, and to love our neighbors. Would you pray about coming to S.E. Asia with Mission Adventures doing Justice over there with me?

Why Cambodia

Welcome to the Mission Adventures Cambodia 2010 outreach blog. We hope that through this you will get a heart and a passion (Jesus heart and passion) for Cambodia.

Why Cambodia? Well because 50% of the population is under the age of 20. 80% of the population is under the age of 30. And only 3% of the population is older than 65. There is a major problem with sex trafficking and a sad corruption and lack of unity among Christians (showing some improvements).

This is merely a few reasons we are going to Cambodia and would love you and your group to come along and bring Jesus heart to these beautiful children of Him.