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

The end of summer is looming as we prepare to ring in the next new season.

All of us at Yellowstone in front of Old Faithful.  What a super fun summer trip!

We have been off from school for a few months now.  The girls and I needed the break, and we have used this break to the fullest doing all kinds of really fun things.  However now, we are all getting a little tired.  A little cranky, a little bossy.  Ok, let's be serious.  A LOT bossy!  

It's time for us all to get back into school. 

Slowly, slowly the wheels have started to turn in my sun exposed, play overloaded, television warped brain.  I can almost here the squeak of the rusty wheel:-)

So, I am dusting off book shelves and books too for that matter.  We have hardly opened a one this whole summer *gasp*

I am looking up paint colors on Home Depot's website to put a fresh coat of paint in the school room.

I am dreaming about workboxes and white boards and timelines.

I am planning first day of school activities and thinking up new ways to make it extra special for my Littles this year.

I am preparing to send big sister off to high school in a few weeks with volleyball tryouts around the corner, extra practices and registration days looming!

Soccer, tumbling, creative dance and swim...Oh  my!

And we haven't even started school yet.

Truly, truly, my favorite time of year is the end of September, early October.  I dream about those weeks when all this craziness is behind us and we are into the groove of school and activities, spending time in God's Word every day while we learn to walk with  Him. 

I love that season of hunkering down and settling in for the winter after playing hard outside and inside all summer.  Summer is fun.  Play is fun, but cozy autumn days by the fire with something yummy baking in the oven is just about the best thing ever.

So, eagerly I dream and I plan.  I organize and I clean.  I prepare for the coming year, praying over my children, my husband and all of our friends and family too.  I thank God for this season of preparation and pray that I will use it wisely and not squander the time with idle worry and stress.

I will trust in the Lord for all of  my needs and for those of my family.  And I know that, although I dream and plan and organize and clean, I do this so that I may walk a little more by faith, knowing the Lord has it all figured out and I will be prepared to follow wherever he leads.


In Him,

Kim