Category: Cambodia
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Bundle of Joy
This Christmas Sdam and I welcomed the best gift we could have been given. We are proud to introduce you to the newest member of our family, Skyler Soun Soy 12.3.2025
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Community and Thanksgiving
It is already November. Just one more month till baby joins us! I have had a busy fall at EMI; preparing for our November issue of Inside EMI which is our CEO and annual reporting edition, with lots of coordination across EMI to gather data and prepare graphics. We also had our new fellow join…
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An announcement…
Sdam and I continue to settle into life in Colorado. We feel blessed by the church community we have at Harvest Downtown and the friendships both new and old that we are forming there. We have joined the Global Impact Team there, to help Harvest care for all the missionaries sent through the church. It’s…
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A New Home
We’ve moved! This month Sdam and I officially moved to Colorado Springs. I am settling into a new routine of in-person office work and enjoying being with the team. In January, I officially transferred to the EMI Global office and traveled to the Springs to meet with my supervisor and set direction for the coming…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…