Friday, September 9, 2011

Cambodia Here I come!

Hi everyone!

   I am so excited to share with you all a new adventure I am going on.  I have a tremendous opportunity in front of me.  Horizon Community Church (my home church)  is sending a medical team to Cambodia.  Cambodia is a desperately poor country where access to medical help is out of reach for most of the people.  The team will be going to serve these wonderful people with medical and dental help and the love of Jesus Christ.  I will be going with the team in January 2012. 


   According to Ken Huff, the missionary we will be working with in Cambodia, one of the leading causes of child slavery is the inability to pay medical bills or the selling of children to raise the money for needed treatment.  Providing this type of help does more than any other single method to help eradicate this atrocity.

   Many illnesses that are very treatable, like diarrhea, are fatal in a country like Cambodia. Simple infections are life threatening because of a lack of proper care. We will be able to bring some relief in the name of Jesus. 

    The team will be leaving January 6th 2012 and returning the 15th 2012. The flight is 23 hours there and about 25 hours back.  Our destination and home base will be in a province outside of Phenom Penh. We will be serving five different villages in the field.  In each village there is a church that we will be working with. Every believer will be prayed for and every non-believer (most of those we will see) will receive the gospel message from our Cambodian partners.  Once we leave, the church then will have a connection with the patients we have seen.

   Our focus will be simple, to bring the healing power of Jesus Christ through hands on medical treatment, prayer and the truth of the gospel.  

   Not everyone can go but all are called to help.    Please pray for the missions team, their families, and the people of Cambodia.  The deadline is fast approaching when the first portion of funds will be due to cover the costs of airline tickets. If you are feeling led to give financially to the mission team's efforts, please do so.  My goal is to raise $2000 to cover the cost of my trip, with $1300 being due by October 20, 2011.  Thus far $675.00 has been sponsored!  That is so awesome!  Missions trips like these are not possible without prayer and financial support from friends and family like you and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your sponsorships!

    I am so excited to see what the Lord is going to do for the people of Cambodia!  Thank you for partnering with me along this journey.

               Thank you and God Bless!

                           Kim Spalding