Week Two

During the second week of my stay in Cambodia I have been kept busy with various activities (similar to the week) but of course all new experiences.

On Monday’s as always we visited the slums, the photos here show the living conditions of the people there. During this visit Cherie shared a vision that Heartland has for all the people there, this vision is that they will all been self-sustain through employment and eventually through of their own businesses.

Tuesday and Friday are my favourite day when it comes to ministry, it is in these visits that I realise the sacrifice of leaving my comfortable and stable life in Australia is worth it. I feel like my life is put into perspective when I look in the eye of these people.

above- Cherie gives food to a man

above- Shares the Gospel story with him

above- This man and his wife then aspect Jesus in their lives

On Thursday and Sunday we do a feeding program at Windy Village , which is about 2kms for Heartlands base. Before we feed the Mothers and Children we have services with both, the woman learn to read in Khmer after someone shares the Word of God with them. During this time the Children learn memory verses and sing worship song’s, it is awesome to see the joy on the little faces (priceless).

At the Heartland base all the staff and volunteers have a worship time together every morning Pastor Chana shared sometime amazing with us that really spoke to me, he spoke about the machine in the hospital that monitors a person’s heart. With this machine we can indentified the state of one’s life, if they are dead or alive. When the line on the machine runs continually flat this reveals that the person is dead, on the other hand when the line is going up and down this means that this person is alive. In the same way, a person that lives a flat life with nothing much happen (no highs and low) would be considered dead. While the person that live a life full of high and low can be sure that they’re alive, although they have low times they can be certain that the highs are on their way. So I want to encourage you all if you’re feeling flat use a life giving tools and bring yourself back to life, on the other hand if you feel like your life is a bit of a rollercoaster with highs and lows be confident that you are alive and that is nothing at all wrong with this.