Author: Anna
Curve Ball
We have been thrown another curve ball. Sdam had his long-awaited citizenship interview last week. Up until this point, and even after leaving his interview, we had good reason to believe he would soon be a citizen and we would soon be returning to Cambodia. But a few hours after returning home, we received a…
Seasons of Waiting
We are still in the US continuing to wait for Sdam’s US citizenship. While our hearts long to be back in Cambodia, we are learning to wait on the Lord. Myself, as a planner, struggles at times not knowing where we will be 6 months or a year from now. Whereas Sdam is much more…
Welcome 2024
Praying peace and love over you and your family in this coming year. Our time in the US, but with some changes. The biggest change is that I have officially ended my home assignment time with EMI, and I am starting to work remotely for both the Global office, and the Cambodia office. Sdam is…
Sdam in America
Hello Friends, If you follow us on the socials, you know that we have been on home assignment in the US for the last few months. We have been getting some much need down-time as well as visiting friends, family, and supporters. We have also been busy working on US citizenship for Sdam. This has…
Happy Khmer New Year
Sdam and I have exciting news to share. After over 2 years of filling out paperwork, collecting documents, and a lot of waiting, Sdam now has a immigrant visa to the USA!!! We have been planning for this day for a while and now we actually have plane tickets bought and a date on the…
Family Time
First of all, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The end of the year goes by quickly, right? My parents came to visit us once again, and it is always such a blessing to have them here. While they were here, they got to attend their first Khmer wedding. Sdam’s little sister got married…
Loving Your Neighbor
September 2022 Update Anna Update Last month I traveled with a team from EMI Cambodia to the northern part of the country to visit several schools we have been helping to construct. EMI Cambodia has been partnering with Samaritan’s Purse to build these schools in rural communities. I captured these two little boys after school…
Gifts
Anna Update A lot of my time over the past few months have been working on several projects for our EMI Global office. Every year, in the summer issue of our digital magazine, we publish EMI in Numbers, our annual report on project, people, and giving for the previous year. To support this publication, I…
Team Work
Anna Update In January the team met for our yearly “staff days,” a two day off-site meeting to plan and make goals for the year a head. EMI Cambodia then hosted our first full volunteer project trip in almost two years. We are so thankful that the boarders remain open and easy for travel. However,…
Christmas on Koh Rong
Merry Christmas! From the Says Anna Update EMI Cambodia remains busy, we are currently scheduling projects well into the new year. This is great improvement for us and we are proud of the hard work put in by everyone. To celebrate our achievement and the re-opening of Cambodia, the whole office had a team retreat…