9 days to go!

There are only nine days left before the team leave for Cambodia. We are all starting to get excited and perhaps a bit nervous too! We leave Stavanger on Saturday the 23rd of June and fly first to Oslo where we will meet up with Pat Rishton, Tracy's sister in law who is a doctor and the tenth member of our team. From there we fly on to Zurich followed by an overnight flight to Bankok and finally a short hop to Phnom Penh, the capital of  Cambodia.

Cambodia is a country with a troubled past. Many will remember the terrible years from 1975 to 1979 when under the Khmer Rouge over two million men, women and children were slaughtered. For more information see:  http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1879785,00.html The result we still see today is a very young population with huge challenges ahead of them. I do not yet know what all this will look like in reality when we get there nor do I know how I will react to what I see especially if we visit the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.

In the team we have 4 youths aged 13-17, two nurses, a doctor, a teacher, a pre-school teacher and me. The team will be involved in much teaching as well as some practical help and through this we will try to show Gods love in word and action. We will be teaching basic health care in five places. My role in this is minimal, I will be part of the drama group supporting the teaching.

In two places we will be gathering the sundayschool teachers from the area and encourageing them in their important role as well as holding seminars on various ways of telling bible stories to children. Amongst other things we will be using puppets to tell the story of the lost sheep as an example. The puppets will be left with the sundayschool for them to use in the future.

We will be holding a "Loved" day for fourty teenagers and teaching them about the five languages of love  http://www.5lovelanguages.com/learn-the-languages/the-five-love-languages/   followed by a "loved" party.

We will be away for seventeen days and spend a lot of our time travelling or teaching. Please pray for us as we prepare to travel as well as during the trip.

The team