If you have any further questions please don’t hesitate to call me at 2060-550-2594, or email at phil@missionadventures.net

Thanks and have a great day.

June 7-21
July 5-19
Aug. 2-16
Aug. 16-30

The 14 day program costs $1100 (excluding flight) and includes:

housing

visa

food

staff

all transportation in country

snacks

translators

(smiles are also free).

To register for the Cambodia trip visit the registration page here.

Help us build futures.

Every day, Mith Samlanh provides vocational training, education, counseling, medical services and outreach programs to 1800 street children and youth in Phnom Penh.

We need your help to secure our center in Phnom Penh so we can continue to help support street children and their families become independent and productive members of their community.
From now until December 15th 2009, every $1 donated to the Mith Samlanh Center will be matched with an additional $2 by one of our very generous and long time supporters.

Please help us by donating to our most urgent appeal, either independently or by organizing a larger donations pool amongst your work mates and friends to help us raise enough funds to secure our center and continue in our commitment to help building more futures.

Alternatively, you can also help Mith Samlanh and Friends-International by dining at our restaurants in Phnom Penh or making a purchase at one of our social businesses. All the profits from our social businesses currently go towards the Mith Samlanh Center.

This is one of the many reasons I love going to Cambodia and bringing teams with me, because people are making a difference and we can to. If you would like to learn more about friends check them out here.

YWAM Mission Adventures
c/o Cambodia Trip
100 W. 35th St. Suite C
National City CA 91950

Please write YWAM on all check’s (cheques for Canadians) and include the application/registration forms.

This address is the Mission Adventures Network office where all finances will go through for the upcoming 2010 summer. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me, Phil at 206-550-2594 or email at phil@missionadventures.net

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.

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? 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.