Category: Vietnam/Cambodia
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Transformational Small Churches: Guest Post from Christian Phuoc-lanh Phan
This is a re-post from Ed Stetzer’s Blog. I really enjoy reading what he has to say. He is spending time soon discussing small churches who grasp the weight of God’s calling and are becoming transformational. In the lead up to that discussion, he highlighted this Vietnamese pastor and his church in Washington. Seeing as…
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Cambodia: day 6/7
The poor Internet at our current location caused some problems for me yesterday. When they finally got the wifi working, my post was somehow deleted. Argh! Yesterday we visited a few of the temples here at Angkor Wat, including the massive structure which is depicted on the Cambodian flag. It was seriously impressive. We saw…
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Cambodia: day 5
I’ve been thinking a lot today about the difference between poverty and wealth. We walked around the Russian Market today (which, as far as I can tell, has absolutely nothing to do with Russia) and I managed to find gifts for the last few people on my list. I kept finding gifts I wanted to…
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Cambodia: day 4
Today turned out to be a less stressful day than I thought. Hallelujah! This morning we visited a place called Rahab Crafts. We knew the place was a fair trade organization, but we didn’t know the whole story until we walked in. Rahab teaches people with physical handicaps a trade, then after creating their crafts…
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Cambodia: day 3
Today was all about relationships: old and new, broken and restored, created and completed. We started the day by visiting Hagar International. It is an NGO whose goal is to do whatever it takes, as long as it takes to restore broken people. They receive young women and boys who have been rescued by other…
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Cambodia: day 2
Today is a day that I will remember for a very long time. I’ve tried to process what I have seen today, but I am struggling. More on that in a minute. This morning started well. We explored the Russian Market for an hour, I helped some friends find good knock-off watches and I bought…
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Cambodia: day 1
Today was even more exhausting than yesterday. I believe that will be our pattern for the next few days. I awoke this morning at 4 am to the irregular ringing of the prayer bell at the Buddhist park in front of our hotel. Maybe thirty minutes later loudspeakers throughout the town began broadcasting and car/moped…
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Vietnam: day 7
I am currently sitting on the balcony of my hotel room where we are spending our final night in Vietnam. We’re in a small city on the Mekong river named Chau Doc. This is hotly contested land over the centuries. It’s placement on the river is valuable to both the vietnamese and the cambodians, but…
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Vietnam: day 6
This afternoon during some free time I sat with a few of my classmates in one of the many cafes here in town. We were asking ourselves that important and totally honest question: What are we doing here? We can barely communicate, and we are only here for a few days so there isn’t really…
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Vietnam: day 5
Today was an incredibly long day. I started the morning with Tim from blackcoffeereflections.com. We got some breakfast at the hotel and hit the streets of ho chi minh city shortly after 7am. We wandered toward the massive market (by way of a coffee shop of course) to peruse the knock-offs. I was hoping to…
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