Barbed Wire is the white picket fence of Cambodia...

As you may or may not know, Leanne and I were asked to take on another side project just weeks before we left for Cambodia. Asian Hope purchased a 6-room guest house with the intention of filling it with anyone coming to Cambodia to do aid work. We moved into the house this past week and are getting oriented to all that it entails. Multiple rooms, two cooks, two cleaners and two interns were left to us and we have been asked to get the project up and running as well as develop a meaningful internship for Rachel and Pov. These two are recent graduates of Logos International School and will use this year to apply for college and prepare for their transition out of Cambodia.

We met this project with mixed emotions. We are excited about the relational side of the house as well as creating a place where people working and serving in Cambodia can come to relax. However, this is also our home and it has been difficult knowing that we will be staying at the house until it is the right time to get our place. We know that there are huge possibilities here and the house will be great for Leanne as she begins networking and sorting through more of the details for her trafficking ministry.

As for the present, we know that there will be great things that are done in this house and through this house for those working in Cambodia. This is an abrasive place and just by walking down our own street, we know that there is a lot of need. It is also a beautiful place, with remarkable people who have endured much to get back on their feet.

Below are some pictures of our new home. Note the wonderful pink bathroom, our sweet new red T.V. and the killer barbed wire gate (mom, that does not mean we are in any danger, consider barb wire like the white-picket fence of Cambodia - something to be revered!).