Up date

Here are some updated pictures of the children.

We have 8 children waiting to come most of them girls. One family was referred to us because they where on the news. When you make the news here for being poor that’s pretty bad.


Here are a few pictures of the property. Ream out walking the garden.

Are cucumbers did really well this year.

Right front yard and left front yard.
Group picture

Dance class
Music theory

Prep class for next year with Long and Own



Thursday bible for pre teen

A very kind team from Australia came and spent some time with us. It was pretty hot out but they where good sports and played with the children.

Children playing tug a war. Hua with a nice big smile.


This game is like Steal the Bacon instead of 2 children I put 4 in it was quite fun.

Then we had races to the candy bucket. One candy 2 buckets to make it fare on the slow children. Some times the fast children get there first but choose the wrong bucket. Melor kept picking the same small child to race but each time he got there first he chose the wrong bucket and Tee ended up winning. It got pretty funny after a while.
Feeding the goats

Cleaning out the rabbit cages
Pig food.

Feeding the ducks.
Sam and Weed
Field trip to the near by Temple ruins
Sam on the slide
Sunset view of the orphanage
Silhouette sunset over the rice fields


Some new snakes one I think is a boa and I am not sure of the other, but they call it a house snake. It is about the only snake the people can stand. It eats the mice and is left to live.

Our children’s church at CCF again raised some funds for us. It is really quite the blessing for us. This time it was to help fund the summer activities or VBS (vacation bible school).

Activities listed for this summer:
Dance class, learning the harvest dance.
Weaving class, learning to make bath mats.
Art classes, learning perspective, shading, and depth.
Music theory
Guitar class for some
Violin class for some
More farming and building education. Introducing goats, chickens, geese, guinea fowl, composting and waste management.
Classes at local NGO agriculture center.
Bible classes and activities
Field trips to the beach, an ancient temple in the middle of the river, the zoo and Angkor Wat for some.
Team interaction


We are really pushing some our children that are two or more grades behind to catch up like Ve Chi. He was used for labor with the last family he was with. He is turning 14 this year and just finished 2nd grade. His second grade level was more like Kindergarten or first grade. He does not know anything. I think he does not like school because he is in class with children half his age. Anyway we are pushing him to not only repeat the second grade but advance. We told him where ever grade he is competent in by the time school starts that is where he will be. So he is doing his best. He has learned his alphabet and to read and write. He might make 2nd grade now, so will are pushing Math now. We would love to start him in 4th or more but I think that is really pushing it.
Ve Chi could use your prayers as he studies he gets head aches a lot. I told him he is exercising a muscle he has not used before so it is going to hurt. :)

I like it when the children are out of school we have more fun and they learn more. Their time is well spent all day. I know they are enjoying themselves as well.

I want to tell everyone that we are trying too get a calendar out this year to support the work here and to be aware of it coming out to you can buy from us and give to you friends and family. If it goes well we will do one every year. The price should be around $10 which is cheaper than most.
I will let you know when it is out and where to order it. I will also post a preview of the pictures the will be in it.

Also we are scheduled to get a satellite Internet so my posting will increase in the future.I know things have gotten stale at this page and I can only apologize but we are busy and have not gotten into town really this month. If you email us at Kitandream@gmail.com and let us know we will put you on an alert for when we do post a blog so you do not waste time going our place for nothing

We would like to thank the sponsors for the letters to the children they crave it. The ones who received where so happy and will try and get letters back to you with this team. Also thank you to all who sent gifts or letters to My family. Thank you all.

New pictures of the children

Tate
Te-a
Tee
Tong
Weed

Melor
Nune
Nyng
Rachana
Darow

Channee
Ve Chi
Chan Chow
Hua
Lime

I was picture day and here is a picture of the three brothers we accepted reasently.
Here is our three girls two on the right are sisters
Pictures from the roof our neighbors are palanting rice.
Srey Nyng birthday along with some others. She got a really nice doll with hand made coths from my mother. She was so happy.


It is coming to my 33rd birthday as some of you may know. This is the 3 birthday I have spent in Cambodia and this year has been the nicest. The weather is great right now, low
80’s with over cast and slight breezes. I stand in the front yard and it is easy to forget where I am.
This year my beard has seen its first white hairs. I got to tell the children that it was a sign of wisdom and they should have more reason to listen to me. What they did not think of is that out of the thousands of brown hairs I only have three white hairs and would be good reason for them not to listen to me. :)
I do not feel old except when I play with the children, it seems I get hurt or sore every day.
Anyway we have 16 children 3 of them girls. I will post more information on the new children later.
All the children are health and most are happy.
We have a little summer school planned for them with dance lessons, music and maybe a little art. We are going to try and push some to catch up to the grade they should be in so we don’t have 30 year olds waiting to get out of high school.
One of our new boys will 14 soon, he is in second grade and is barley learning his alphabet.
There is a lot of work to do on many of these children but thankfully many of them want to take the chance given to them. The hard decisions will come in the future when will have to decide to pull a child from school and start teaching him a trade. We are talking with them trying to make them to be apart of these decisions that will shape their life. The big one kicker is when I tell them I don’t want them digging holes in someone’s yard the rest of their life making $20 to $30 a month.
We really keep on them about it being their decision so they do not end up hating us. I do not want this to be a negative experience for a child who has not come to Christ. I would be sad to think a child leaves here disliking Christians and blaming us for their failures.
5 of our new children are not Christians yet so they need your prayers. Of our three girls one seems to be a bit naughty. She is worse than most our boys but we keep on her talking to her about being a lady and what a people admire in a woman. We have one boy who does not smile. He always has his angry face on. It feels like he his cursing me or trying to burn a whole in me. But we keep loving him and giving him attention, one day he will change. He already listens more than he did when he came. His grandma told us she thought he was going deaf because he hardly ever listened.
This month of July we will be buying chickens, ducks and maybe some fish. Ream and I personally want to get a goat. There are so many goat milk receipts out there. We want to make good ice creams and cheeses. The ice creams they sell in the village is more like a shave ice accept it is usually frozen pond water with powdered chemical flavoring. I would guess that it is one of the more dangerous things to eat here.
The property is really looking nice; the rains have turned everything green and beautiful. The children are really happy with the grass almost every day they are out there playing or rolling in it. Unfortunately it is a really itchy grass but they love it anyway.
The people who support this work I want you to know how wonderful it is and how important it is. I know with changing markets in the States it is difficult to still give, but I encourage you to stick with it and reduce something else if you must. I know we had only owned our house for a year before we came here and we would be struggling to if we where still there. I tell you where I would cut my expenses. For one I drove to fast most of the time, almost a hundred miles a day would cost me about $400 a month. I know if I would have slowed a little I could have reduced that cost. Also I like the fancy coffee some times a 4or 5 dollar frap chino, when I eat I would buy the expensive meal because I really liked the $6 burgers at Carl’s. These small indulgences do not seem like much but all month long it is a large expense. When it came to the end of the month things would be tight. I think now we had this last year almost $9000 a month income and we spent it all. So I would have to say my priorities where off. When it came to cutting expenses I would cut the wrong ones. I hardly gave any thing outside of my tithe and some times I would find excuses not do that.
I pray for the people who support this work that these hard times would not be so hard and that your faithfulness would continue. I pray that you would feel the blessing of what is being done here. I hope you realize that you are a part of changing many lives and that will be accounted to you in heaven. If you look at it like that it might even be easier to give. Make it a game or a race and try to change as much as possible. Most of us are really good at collecting something. Let us collect the crowns that will be given to Christ.
Thank you, so much to the children church for their continued interest. The children are using the play equipment every day. Sometimes the neighbor children come and play to so it was such a wonderful blessing.
Thank you, home groups and all who pray for us, the children and or this ministry.
I believe we will be home some time on or after Christmas and can not wait to see and share with you.

Thank you

Thank you to all have come and to all the are involved in this project through prayer and support.
Ream and I have been in the country for a year since April. We have had our second son here and have celebrated birthdays and anniversaries. We are doing well here and it is because are supporter choose to do the will of the Lord.
While much of the time I feel unworthy of being here I know I am on the right path. When I see the progress made by the children here I know this is a fact.

Are children are interacting with the community by visiting relatives, church and school. We continue to have good reports come back about the children and how they have changed in such a short time. Their health has improved, their manors, the way they speak and act. It is wonderful to report more than half our children are top ten in their classes.

The high school assistant principle came to see the place. He said "you have done so much here if you where Buddhist you would already have reached the top levels for the best re carnation." I was thinking how sad it must be that you can buy your way to heaven and what a cheap God that can be bought. What chance does the poor have and why would they believe in such a thing if they are never going to make it.
Anyway we really hope to make good friends with the schools so we can have an influence in how things are run there. It was a good start as we begin to impressing the upper levels of the system.

Summers coming and I would encourage anyone to come and spend some life changing moments with us. Thank you for all your interest in what goes on here.

Rachana

Rob P. do you still want to come and teach soccer?
Part of the driveway on the left and the trees. The volleyball court and all the wonderful green grass. Donated by some friends Australia. There is sand on top to reduce the mud. It will grow through for a prettier picture.

Picture of Rachana age 10 with her grandma and father. Rachana was beaten badly by her stepmother a while ago so grandma took her.
Grandma's best interest for the girl she brought her to us.
Rachana wants to design cloths when she grows up.

I think it would be a hard decision to chose between a new wife and your daughter. But I think when you wife almost rip the girls ear off the choice would get easier.
You have to love grandmothers who do the right thing when the parents can't.