So my team and I are in the city of Siem Reap in Cambodia.
Not far from this city are a series of Hindu and Buddhist
temples from the Angkor era of Cambodia; some of which are over 2,000 years old.

Angkor Wat: the largest religious building in the world.

Bayun: a temple covered with huge stone face carvings.

Ta Prom: A expansive temple ruin area overgrown with huge trees with extensive root systems.

Here in Siem Reap we are working with a ministry with girls brought out of human trafficking.
Some of our team or spending time in the girls center doing handcrafted merchandise for the girls
to sell to help them out of prostitution. Some of the other girls in the center are participating in job internships to work in a hair salons.
In addition to building relationships with this girls and encouraging them, the team is also able to participate in discipling these girls.
Some of the girls have been able to have been able go from counseling and recovery to having an outward focus. Have been able to put on a children's program once a week in a nearby slum. Not only are they pouring into the lives of others but by blessing others the are starting to see more of their own self worth.

The children's program has worship songs and a bible lesson, a short English lesson and games.
The girls also wash the children's hair to help prevent lice and they do simple wound care as well.

Ex prostitutes becoming missionaries?

It is so cool to see.....

Redemption

.....so clearly at work.

As part of the ministry in the slum a new ministry started for guys living in the slum. Rather than living in the slum where drugs, alcholism, and crime are major problems/temptations, the guys are given a chance to live in a community house together and to receive discipleship.

Mike, the other guy on our team, and myself are able to work there.

We are teaching music and computer classes, and a couple of English classes. We are able to share about Jesus and about the Bible throughout the week as we build relationship with these boys.

Vitchet one of the boys from the house. I heard him goofing around on the drums one day and he seemed quite talented. But when it was time for our music lesson and I asked him I he wanted to learn drums. He responded with a no I'll learn guitar and pointed to his leg.
Vitchet lost some of his left leg to a land mine below the knee and uses a prosthetic leg (landmine fields are still a problem in Cambodia).
I told Vitchet "dude! You can totally play drums!" I told him the story of Def Leppard's drummer who lost his whole left arm and continued to play drums for a famous band. So he smiled and agreed to learn drums.
He has quite a knack for it and is my best student.

We went fishing the other day where he became the teacher and I the student.
I did catch a fish... it was tiny. but it was a great day of hanging out.

Its been an awesome couple weeks of ministry and I am looking forward to the next few weeks of ministry here!

Thanks for all your prayers and support! Keep us in your Prayers!