Jenny Schmitz, Josh sister holding a girl in the train village. In this village we did a clinic where 40 or 50 women showed up. More than half where pregnant and many of the women where in there 6th to 8th pregnancy. We where all a little surprised by this.





The lady next door to the clinic makes noodles for sale. The 2 children teeter the log up and down all day.
The mother flips the dough and adds water.
Then the dough is pressed through the coffee can with holes in it using a long bamboo pole and a rounded piece of wood. The Aunt cuts the noodles before they get to long. The noodles cook in the pot for a little while then they take them out. As they cool them in cold water they separate them so they do not stick.
The family 8 or 9 do this all day to earn they're living. The noodle are use in large dinner like weddings.

Ox cart.

This house is next door.

Sam on the road to the train village.

This is what most people get to work on. A moto driven wagon with 20 something people.

Kit, Ream My Dad, and Sokun Ream's Sister 4-06

Here is a picture on top of the orphanage looking back at Papa's house.




This a young man who lives down the road.
His mom can in the rain to ask for Papas prayer though she and her family are not Christains. They have run out of options.

I guess he has been lying in bed for a year and only this week has been able to sit up.
So Amy, Kim and my self went with Papa the next day to pray.
Turns out he is one of the smartest children in the country. Winning a contest that would send him into the Asia smartest teen contest but then he got really sick and could not go. Also they did not give him the prizes he had won.
We found out his Father had gotten AIDS and died 3 years ago and his mother also has AIDS.
Our guess is that he has AIDS as well.
There has been some other NGO's come and take him to get test. One doctor only said he will die. The other NGO he him tested took him home but also did not tell him what was wrong
He has felt abandond.
Anyway we prayed, first papa led him and his mother to the LORD and then we prayed for healing.
Next week we took Wally's team there to check on him and pray. Well he has been reading the bible we gave him. He tell us that he has peace inside and is very happy, he also has been able to get off the bed and walk.
I know it really made him Happy to see some return and to see new faces come. It really showed him we cared, that we did not just walk away. Follow up is very improtant and really secures what you may have said or done, it shows them that your different.

Wally team was a blessing, Thank you.

Joshs' Schmitz and his sister arrived safely on the 5th.
It was wonderful to see him again and to see what God will do in his life while he is here. Please pray that his sister will adjust just as well as he has in the past. She will be here 3 months. I believe they will be at Ruth's orphanage helping out while Ruth is away recovering from her illness.
I am praying for Wally Miller, Spears family, Lisa Patchen and Dusty as you maybe looking to come for a visit or to help out.
This week we will be meeting with some of the children and working out legalities of obtaining the children.
Please be in prayer for one of the girls waiting for our help as she is being beaten by her brother.
Please pray for the building to be finished soon and for renewed excitement back home in being able to help these children. I know it has been a long time to prepare but now is the time. Very soon your works will pay off and many prayers will begin to be answered.

Next time I will hope to begin to share the stories of some of the people we know and work around.
Sirin, Ream's brother, told a story of Ream's Dad the other day.
After the war, Ream's father cut a pillow case up to make some clothes and walked 50 kilometers. He walked from the village to the city taking him two and a half days with no shoes and just a skirt made from a pillow case.
He was taking all his money to town to buy salt.
Money in the village was worthless at this time but salt was worth more than gold.
Sirin said Papa just showed up at their door one day in the city, they where shocked. He was there just to buy salt and leave.
With thirty pounds or so of salt, sleeping in the bushes with blisters on his feet he again walked home for two and a half days.
I have never walked a day before in my life and I haven't done it naked in a pillow case.

I have never had to take all I have and buy food with it.


Every story we here about Pastor Khon, Ream's father, seems to humble us.
What can I do for a man who has experienced so much life. I would say to serve him and help him in anyway I can.
But oddly he serves me and helps us with what we are trying to do.

I love and appreciate the help which my family has given me to get here. The family who are not Christians but understand what we are doing and are encouraging us to continue. Also my extended family the church for who hearts are so kind and loving. As many of you have loved and trusted in Christ. To show love and support by faith is amazing.

I love Mike and Rachel in Ireland though I do not know them well, their work shows their heart and I am excited for what they are doing. Wouldn't it be awesome to have someone from our little church help sew the wound that has lasted for centuries in some far off place.
Maybe in the next ten years I will start to read another book of a missionary and it will be of them and their work.
Oh by the way, Mission to the Headhunters is the first book I have sat down to read in the last ten years. Once a decade is good for me. It is a really good book, and I can kind of relate to their experiences.