Exploring Development in Cambodia Interim – 2014 Schedule, *Prayer and +Learn
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Exploring Development in Cambodia Interim – 2014 Where in the world are you? Where are your friends and family right now? Where have you lived or visited in the past? Where would you like to visit or live in the future? Where IS +Cambodia? Schedule, *Prayer and +Learn-along with us Calendar Sun Mon Tues We Thurs Fri Sat 5 6 7 8 Drive to 9 Arrive 10 Bangkok 11 Ohare. Fly +Bangkok +YWAM Chicago> late pm Rak Teh & Tamar & Seoul Korea Nightlight. Ruth Centers. *All our *Moods and Service *Safe, restful luggage & attitudes as Learning. travel for all. donation we battle jet *Team pkgs arrive. lag. bonding. 12 Bangkok 13 Travel to 14 Travel to 15 @ Farm 16 @ Farm 17 in PP 18 +World +Phnom +ESA Farm Village visits. Service Visit Renew Worship & Penh School visits. (water Memorial - Village - Debriefing *Safe Travel survey; +Cambodian Takeo *Safe travel *Good * Good schools) holocaust. * Open and border meeting with bonding 3pm travel to Killing fields * hearts & crossing to +HILS & with Law sts PP. & Prison Relationship minds; +Cambodia. Trinity Law *No issues building helpful students. with health, *Good *Learn the w/villagers insights as water and engagement right lessons we prepare food . with villagers from recent for *Safe travel Cambodian Cambodia. to PP. history. *Please pray us through this interim trip by focusing especially on these requests each day. +Check out the additional information about these places or organizations on the following pages. +Where exactly is Cambodia? We fly through Incheon South Korea (avoiding North Korean air space, of course) to Bangkok Thailand. Then after recovering from jet lag, visiting and service learning with YWAM-Bangkok, we take ground transportation over the border into Cambodia. +How big is Cambodia? Cambodia is 69,898 sq miles – half way in size between Michigan and Minnesota. Michigan is 58,527 sq miles. Minnesota is 84,402 sq miles. The MeKong river and the Tonlé Sap Lake are very important for the entire region. Learn more about the Lake when you read about the Floating Village. +What is YWAM (Youth With a Mission, pronounced ‘Why-Wam’) in Thailand? . YWAM Thailand is part of the global YWAM movement that is committed to expressing the Kingdom of God through training, evangelism and mercy ministries in partnership with local churches and other organizations. Our vision is Living the Kingdom, transforming lives, impacting the nations. www.ywamthai.org In Bangkok we will divide into teams. Each team will visit two of these four ministries. +What is Rak Teh? Rak Teh is a ministry with YWAM Thailand that is serving and Loving their often homeless neighbors in the way of Jesus on the streets of old Bangkok. They are working towards praying for transformation, introducing the community to Jesus, meeting felt needs within their community, and networking with Government agencies to help provide for basic needs. http://www.ywamthai.org/rakteh Prayer Points: Pray for effective ways to meet the needs of our neighbors with very complicated life situations that make life long change difficult. Pray for continued partnership with government agencies and Thai Buddhists who are helping to meet the needs of homeless people. +What is Night Light? NightLight is an international organization committed to addressing the complex issues of commercial sexual exploitation through prevention, intervention, restoration, and education. NightLight’s mission is to do “whatever it takes” to affect change within the global sex industry. We will be visting their Bangkok location and learning more about the complex issues of trafficking and sexual exploitation. http://nightlightinternational.com/ Prayer Points: For growth in our jewelry business so that we can employ many more women who are seeking alternatives to working in the sex industry. For guidance in how to tackle global human trafficking issues that we face in the streets of our city. +What is the Tamar Center? The Tamar Center is a ministry with YWAM Thailand that is center for help, healing and hope, offering Women in prostitution jobs in their card-making program, hairdressing salon, bakery, restaurant and other income-earning activities, as well as giving courses in life skills, English and knowing God. Their hope is to see women find dignity, hope and a future. http://www.ywamthai.org/tamar/ Prayer Points: Pray for growth in our Thai staff to grow in capacity and leadership skills, for more women to make the choice to leave harmful situations and for continued growth in understanding of the dangers of the sex industry for rural families so that the exploitation of girls and young women can be stopped. +What is the Ruth Center? The Ruth Center is a ministry with YWAM Thailand that has a goal to work with slum communities in Bangkok’s Prawet District to improve the quality of life for the elderly and seek long term solutions to their care. They regularly visit and care for 250 elderly people who often have no one else looking out for them. "Coming along side people where they are at" is a way to love people the way Jesus demonstrated. http://www.ywamthai.org/ruthcenter/ Prayer Points: For a clearer understanding of how to grow our ministry to Elderly who have failing health and no family to care for them. For families to rise up and care for their elderly parents. +What is Phnom Penh? Phnom Penh is the capital and largest city of Cambodia. Located on the banks of the Mekong River, Phnom Penh has been the national capital since the French colonized Cambodia, and has grown to become the nation's center of economic and industrial activities, as well as the center of security, politics, economics, cultural heritage, and diplomacy of Cambodia. Once known as the “Pearl of Asia”, it was considered one of the loveliest French-built cities in Indochina in the 1920s. Phnom Penh, along with Siem Reap and Sihanoukville, are significant global and domestic tourist destinations for Cambodia. Founded in 1434, the city is noted for its beautiful and historical architecture and attractions. There are a number of surviving French colonial buildings scattered along the grand boulevards. Situated on the banks of the Tonlé Sap, Mekong and Bassac rivers, the Phnom Penh metropolitan area is home to more than 2 million of Cambodia’s population of over 14 million. The city is the wealthiest and most populous city in Cambodia and is home to the country’s political hub. +What is ESA? Eden School of Agriculture (ESA) is a farm in the southwest of Cambodia that is working out sustainable farming practices that rely on local resources while making use of international expertise, including Prof. Dornbos of Calvin College. ESA seeks to improve and train others in effective and sustainable water management, crop rotation, and fertilizer and farming alternatives. We will be learning about their approaches, their challenges and what works in their specific context and why. Of course, we will also be lending 29 sets of hands to get a little work done on the farm. +What is HILS? During our first week when we are at ESA Farm, we will have the opportunity to connect with a group of students from HILS (Handong International Law School – from South Korea) and Trinity Law School (from California). These groups are also learning about development in the Cambodian context. What is GCT? Genesis Community of Transformation (GCT) is a non-profit, Non-Government Organization in Cambodia that assists in Cambodia’s recovery from the atrocities suffered under the Khmer Rouge. GCT was founded by Cambodian national Navy Chan with the mission of training farmers in sustainable agriculture techniques, improving community organization in villages, and providing educational opportunities for women and youth. +What are the Killing Fields? The Cambodian Holocaust The Killing Fields Museum website features this headline: “3 Years … 8 months … 20 days = over 1.7 million died”. The Khmer Rouge regime came to power in 1975 following 5 years of civil war, complicated and affected by the massive bombing of Cambodia by the United States of America as part of the war in neighboring Vietnam. During the Khmer Rouge period from 1975 to 1979 over 1.7 million people died. If you are interested in seeing what Cambodia was like in the late 1970’s, you can google and view “Year Zero” – a 52 minute documentary plea for assistance for Cambodia filmed in the late 70s. If you are interested in learning more about the Khmer Rouge period and the American role in that conflict, watch the motion picture The Killing Fields (1984). The Schedule for our week in Siem Reap is still being finalized, but this calendar will give you an idea of the things we will be doing in the second half of the study trip. Sun Mon Tues We Thurs Fri Sat 19 Takeo 20 in PP 21 in PP 22 in SR 23 in SR 24 in SR 25 in SR Village RDI, CCAM / IDE (IJM) +Angkor +NIBC NICB schools +DAIL, Orphanages. Travel to Hospital for schools & Villages +Floating * Being a Dinner. +Siem Reap. Children. &Villages Village,UN- blessing and w/+Theary West Baray. *New FAO Flooded being blessed Seng. * Continued *Being good * Nurture insights into Forest in the village. * Stamina, good health representatives good education Project *Seeing God health and for our team. for Calvin relationships issues and *Grace in the in worship good spirits *Safe travel. Colege, between village life. face of today. as we hit the Christian, and Calvin and extreme ½ way mark. US-American. NIBC. poverty. 26 Worship 27 in SR 28 in SR 29 in SR 30 in SR 31 Arrive *Thanks for SR +Angkor Wat +World Conference *Safe travel Chicago AM.