As the UK and the West is starting to warm up, we are starting to get rain and with it a short period of cooler, fresher weather. I mean short as we get about half an hour after the rain until it dries up! Its also a time for us when humidity is unbearable at 80%. Thankfully, Mark and I will be heading to the UK mid-June and will escape the humidity for a while, if not the rain…
The Eggshell Cambodia AGM date has been set and will be in the Micah Centre, Willowfield Parish Church, 49 My Lady’s Road, Belfast on Thursday 29th June at 7.30pm, we would love to see you there.
This morning one of the staff was singing and I asked her was she happy and why she was happy, she said in good English “I am happy because I am at work”, this made me smile as 4 ½ years ago this lady was begging for food on the streets. Her happiness is due to all of our donors who have changed her life and the life of her child by providing a safe place in day care for her little boy and a job for her with us. I know if she could meet you face to face, she would thank you herself a thousand times over.
Question?
if you are on a scooter and need to transport 4 car tyres, how would you do it?
Now you know I talk a lot of the use of enormous amounts of Sellotape that hold everything to the back of the scooter, e.g. Sofas, printers, fridges, so I know you are thinking that the person would Sellotape the tyres on to the back seat as usual, no, you would be wrong. you would put the tyres over your head and ride with them around your waist – simples….
Last month I talked about the ASEAN Games being held in Cambodia for the first time. I am so pleased to say that Cambodia did very well in the games with 81 gold, 74 silver and 127 bronze. The games are very interesting as they included a lot of Eastern martial arts which we don’t see in the Western Olympics. The games were shown on big screens in open areas throughout the City and all tickets to the games were free. Well done Cambodia for doing a fantastic job in hosting the games, I am proud of this wee country my heartland.
The best news this month is day care has taken in a further 5 children. One 4 year old boy whose mother has to leave him outside the gates of work each day to play on his own from 7am to 6pm, one little girl who is 3 her mother is dead, along with her cousin their grandma is struggling to keep them safe as she is sick and two girls, a baby of under a year and a 3 year old who’s grandma has no money, no food but a little rice and is having to feed the baby the water drained out of the boiling rice as milk. The baby and her sister are very thin and malnourished. That brings our children up to 25, praise God!!!
We have also started a Khmer reading and writing class for the staff. Most of the staff cannot read or write their own language and we think it is important for them to be able to do this. Reading signs and signing your name is difficult when you cannot read or write.
A blessing – We have a little boy who last week had an abscess on his head, he was given medicine by his family, but it wasn’t helping, our trainee day-care worker prayed with him and said; “we are praying it will be gone when you come to day care on Monday” – it was!!
Bible Study is continuing to flourish, the women and men attending are learning about lots of difficult things like being generous without conditions, not to fear tomorrow, how to pray, God’s provision etc.
Mark and I are so grateful for God being in the difficult situations and in the good ones. We were singing “In Christ Alone” in church a few Sunday’s ago and were reminded that it is in Christ that is our hope, our strength and our cornerstone, we can do nothing without him, we can serve no one without him, we wander around like lost sheep without direction and become ineffective in doing his work. Every day we should be offering our all to him before we start our day, I needed that reminder to stop trying to do things in my own strength and fix what I, as a human, cannot.
Until next time. Hope you see you at the AGM.
Blessings
Liz and Mark…
