Some colleagues of mine at World Relief have recently begun a new initiative called Undocumented.tv. Undocumented.tv aims to bring the conversation about the Christian faith as it relates to immigration to younger evangelicals. It’s pretty thought provoking and worth the time to explore… You can click the image below to check out a profound blog
The Kilns College spring classes started this week. The news is that there are more credit students enrolled than any previous semester. Pretty cool stuff!! If you’re still up for taking a for credit class or auditing a class, click on the picture below and contact the school. Registration remains open for the next week!
A few of us were set to go on to India, but ran into problems with visas. Instead, we stayed on for an extra two days in Phnom Penh and are flying home via Hong Kong and Los Angeles late tonight and tomorrow. Yesterday we checked into a hotel downtown by the Mekong riverside. We
World Relief Cambodia is a pretty amazing thing. The primary focus of the programs has to do with women and children in a variety of forms. Much of it started years ago with a micro-finance institution. Since then the the various interventions have blossomed into many unique and organic programs for vulnerable women and children.
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Today we drove north out of Phnom Penh to visit World Relief programs in the field. We were out by 6:45 a.m. and not back till 6 p.m. Long trip – complete with eating some fried tarantula to make it authentic – but we saw some of the most beautiful countryside I’ve ever seen. I’m
Gonna try and spend some time blogging later. We’ve been on a torrid pace the last two days and haven’t had a chance to spend any time on the computer. As I’m typing, I’m already late to meet the van for a trip up north and won’t be back till this evening. In the meantime,
We’ve had a full couple of days in Cambodia. On Monday, we went to the Killing Fields Memorial and Museum outside of Phnom Penh, visited the infamous Khmer Rouge prison called S-21 and then went on to a full afternoon of meetings with the World Relief Cambodia staff. Kevin Kubota put some haunting images and
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Here are some pictures Kevin Kubota sent my way (that’s him on the left below) from Day 1 yesterday in Cambodia. They are from Angkor Wat and the other ancient temples around the city of Siem Reap. Fun to be traveling with some amazing photographers!
In mid 1975, Saloth Sar (later renamed by himself, Pol Pot) became the leader of Cambodia. Pol Pot was the head of the Khmer Rouge, a socialist rebel group who had taken control of Cambodia. He set out to “cleanse” Cambodia and enforce a strict agrarian socialism (empty the cities and make everyone work in
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I’m sitting in the Seattle airport waiting to get on a flight to Seoul, South Korea and then on to Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I’m heading out with videographer Beth Fischer, photographer Kevin Kubota and Marianne Bach, an Antioch intern from last Summer, who is both a videographer and photographer. In Cambodia we’ll be meeting up
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