Cambodia

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November 2010 WorldVenture Appointees & Paraclete Staff

Great News!!

I have some really exciting news to share! Just last month I was appointed by WorldVenture to serve as a missionary to Cambodia! WorldVenture will be partnering with my church family at New Braunfels Bible Church in New Braunfels, Texas to equip, guide, and spur me on as I prepare to launch into long term mission ministry in Cambodia. I had the privilege of joining 14 other missionary appointees (five couples and four other singles) and the WorldVenture Paraclete Center staff for two weeks of candidate orientation in Littleton, Colorado. Each appointee has a mentor, a member of their church who has agreed to fill a special role in teaming up with the missionary to aid in the process of preparing to get to the field. I am delighted and honored to have my dear friend, Renee Garner serving me in that role.

Our mentors joined us for several days of our orientation, so it was really nice to be reunited with her during that time. It was a busy time, with a lot of information coming at us, but it was also exciting to be entering into a new and even more intentional stage of preparation for long term missions ministry, and getting to do it alongside some other really wonderful people.

Chanty, Srey Ma, & Srey Mao

These are the sweet Khmer young ladies who live in the Cox family home, where I am currently staying. They have been my voluntary Khmer language coaches as mentioned in my update.

This Little Piggy Went to Market

I never saw this when I was here last summer, but I've seen it a bunch of times this trip. At first I wondered if the pig was already dead because I couldn't believe it wouldn't be squirming. But then I did finally see one of them moving its legs. I guess they have resigned themselves to their fate and given up, but growing up on a farm I never saw any of our hogs go to market so peacefully!

With my friend Srey Moch