Our Updates

  • This is not a test

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    God is real. He speaks to me. With knowledge comes responsibility.

  • The Time is Now

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    yeleannaes
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    A quarter of 2010 has come and gone. I can’t believe the snowboard DTS is about to leave on outreach. While the school has been busy in lecture, Friday night evangelism, and outreach prep, I’ve been busy at my desk watching the inner workings of a mission organization from my front row seat. And when…

  • Starting Again

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    I took off from Omaha, NE last Tuesday and landed in Christchurch, NewZealand about 24 hours later. It was a beautiful 80 degrees when I left and a cold and rainy 39 when I landed. I just keep reminding myself that I’m making up for the winter I missed last year. It is just starting…

  • Wrapping Up

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    yeleannaes
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    Phnom Penh, in transit to Sihanouk Ville: We’ve spent the last two weeks in Rattanakiri, a rural province in Eastern Cambodia. Our time there was spent evaluating an agriculture flood relief project started in several villages, after their rice harvest was wiped out last October. Two nights were spent in the village; living up close…

  • Putting action to our words

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    yeleannaes
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    So, after two weeks of talking about agriculture we started to put our plans into action. We spent Tuesday and Thursday mornings moving a mountain of dirt to fill in and raise the bed of a garden we’re going to plant at the orphanage. It was exciting to see the kids being excited to help…

  • It’s raining

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    yeleannaes
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    This may not mean much to you temperate climate dwellers, but here in tropical Cambodia it’s very much the dry season. So, this rain is very unexpected. For the last two weeks, the team has been taking part in an agriculture class along with four Khmer students from the YWAM base. We do that in…

  • Leaving Bali, On to Cambodia

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    yeleannaes
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    Hello from Malaysia. I am currently sitting in an airport in Kuala Lumpur at a McDonalds using their free internet and drinking some Starbucks. Our team is just here for a few hours before heading on to Phnom Penh, Cambodia. We had a very refreshing time in Bali, where we performed a Christmas play for…

  • Ahhhh!

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    yeleannaes
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    I’m leaving for Bali in three hours! Crazy Days!!!

  • Stepping Forward

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    yeleannaes
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    The Earth Care team leaves for Bali, Indonesia in less than 3 hours. Three A.M. Monday morning we are in a van leaving the Oxford, NZ base, and the home we have made here over the last two months. It’s crazy how the time has flown by, and yet it seems as though we have…

  • Scree Sliding

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    yeleannaes
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    Last weekend Liz, Sam and I decided to do an overnight at the hut we visited earlier in the Torlesse mountain range. Unfortunately, it was cloudy most of the weekend and we didn’t get to climb Mt. Torlesse like we wanted to. So, we decided to go scree sliding instead. Scree: noun, a mass of small loose stones that form or cover a slope on a mountain. Scree…