A Greater Hope Orphanage

Dec 7, 2010

Our Guest

What do people do when they come here?
They take time to look over all that we do, try and fit in and apply their strengths to the tasks they feel lead to or are asked to do.
Sometimes stretching themselves sometimes humbling themselves. Over all submitting to God's will in their life for the period time they are here.

Each person brings something different. Each guest makes their mark on someones heart here and inevitably and mark is left on theirs.

Each guest time here is invaluable to the people they have worked with. A time that both people will remember for ever.

Here are some older photos I missed, back in September Grace and a couple ladies from New Zealand did some lice clinics and one of our Girls houses. They washed maybe 30 peoples hair for about 4 hours.
I though the best part was just the service to the people, it was intimate and personal. I don't think ever in their wildest dreams would they have thought to have a group of white ladies washing their hair. It was hard work but I think the guest enjoyed it s much as the people.

Rachana's grandmother

Rachana helped rinse them off.

She was so cute, a bit naughty but cute

All the kids had a mass amount of lice in their hair. They would come in with all scraggly, knotty dirty hair and they left beautiful little ladies.

Sarah came to us at the end of September. She is an American who has been living in Germany the last 9 years. She has been teaching English, Violin, and helping the kid with their math classes.
She has also been helping teach English at the high school.

Alicia has come to us from Hawaii. She has has her masters in eduction and has been helping teach Sam, English and helping the children with teaching Sunday school classes. Alicia has completely fallen in love with the kids and is having a hard time imagining having to leave.

Neal, the white guy in the back :) with his wife Rachel has just arrived from Philadelphia. Neal has been helping around the property and been trying to excite the children about gardening. He is also helping teach at a few of my father in-law's churches.

His wife Rachel loves children and is currently a nanny, she is helping teach the smaller kids English and helping us watch Joe for an hour or so, giving us a much need break during the day. She might possibly be teaching a parenting class while she is here.

Sam is really helpful when he comes with us. The kids absolutely love that he speaks Khmer

Nop always there to steal a photo. Sarah wanted proof she was helping with the yard work when Nop steps in with his 10 inch earth worm he just found.

Our children have been getting more involved in ministry. Wut and Young have taken really big roles in helping with children churches. The other month Wut said I want to learn more English and like over night she has been speaking like crazy. She has even translated for Alicia the other day.

We are really very proud of her.

Finally after 4 year some one used our flip books. Alicia taught on Daniel this week.

Alicia brought some puppets with her that were a big hit.

Kind of like Marco Polo with out the pool.

Jump rope

Singing and dancing.

This little girl stuck out. It's the only Afro we've seen on a Cambodian, she gets teased a lot at school but we thought she was just so beautiful.

Neal and Rachel and Sarah have links to their blogs on the right hand side of the page.

Get a different perspective of how they see life here.

Dec 5, 2010

Learning and Growing

We took a couple kids to two fish farms. They learned how to raise several types of fish, frogs and crayfish.

This is a big bowl of catfish.

Making fish food

Something like 14 ponds with thousands of fish.

At the end of this tour we found out that my father in-law helped dig these ponds.

Next fish farm belongs to a cousin of my father in-law

Catfish coming up for food

Alicia was fond of the piglets.

Catching the crayfish

More of a prawn rather than a crayfish they can grow up like 10 inches. They also can sell up to $28 dollars a kilo in the dry season. Which like $5 dollars a shrimp.

These are small ones

Big frogs, the kids favorite part of the classes

Happy baby fish

These are our Duran fruit in the back yard the tree grown from seed 4 years ago.

The kids had a lot of fun growing gourds this year.

What is known as wing beans, taste a lot like green bean.

Just some things we are learning and doing. We are seeing what is practical for us to try or not.
Neal one of our newest guest is a landscaper and will be helping us get everything we do to be done better. He's trying to get the children excited about growing things.

Dec 2, 2010

Title Unknown

It is hard for me to come up with a title today that describes the photos below.

"Smiles", "Family", "Fun" In stead of shortly describing the overall feel of the photos, I'll give the title of how I feel remembering when I took the photos and how I feel when I look at them again today.

"Love"

Love is the emotion I have when I think of the moments we've had this past month.

If I had girls this might be what they looked like. Sister in-law let us try on her wig.

Chenda probably not loving her laundry.

A slip of the foot while gathering some pig food.

I love to see a good friendship in place.

One of the first days for Alicia.

Darow and Tong fell a sleep, doing what or why I don't know. It was as weird as it was cute. Maybe their version of a camp out?

Chantrea constantly reminds me why I love little girls.

Wonderfully happy all the time.

I love Joe's growing fascination with milking things after watching a Dora cartoon. To censor the story I'll just say Joe has been trying to milk every thing he can find, dogs, goats it doesn't mater. I have numerous photos and videos for blackmailing him later, that are not entirely appropriate for the blog. Sorry. ;)

I have been busy laughing while Ream is busy trying to stop him.