Appointed

Great and humbling news!  Our trip this year will coincide with the New Hope For Orphans Kids Camp.  The theme is "Appointed". 

This is a very unique opportunity as I will actually be able to see and interact with all the children from all the Orphanages.  Two of the boys that DJ (my business partner) and I sponsor are at an orphanage on the Thailand border and normally I would not get to see them.  Since they are to be at the camp, we will get to meet them.  This is such exciting news!

Here is a link to the SEAPC website with information on the camp:  Appointed Kids Camp

Right now it is looking like we will arrive in Cambodia sometime around the 2nd of August and depart after the camp.  I am hopeful that the first few days will be spent in the orphanage at Kampot.

 As you can see and if you recall my travels from last year, this is far away from where I have been and not far from Vietnam.  I have been talking with the House parents there and I am hopeful that we will be able to do some work to provide them sustainable sources of food such as a fish pond or chicken coop and chickens.

I have gotten all my medications now from the doctors so that is complete and my planning for my personal part of the mission is underway.  I think I know what I want to do now but I am not sharing just yet!

We received our Christmas letters from the children we sponsor.  Wow what a blessing! 

 We are so looking forward to seeing them.  DJ and I would not be able to visit with them if it were not for the camp.  Their names are Yu Thirin and Yu Thira.  Yu being their "last name" and Thira and Thirin being their first name.

It is such an enriching experience and such a blessing to me.

On to more planning, more to come!