We're on a Mission from God . . . .

Yikes! Has it really been 2 months since our last blog. I gotta free up my schedule . . . .

Anyway, the big news of the last month or so is that Josh & I will be heading to Cambodia sometime near the end of July/beginning of August. Our youth group will be sending a group of students (with adult sponsors - not sure which group I fit in better with . . . ) to a youth camp in Cambodia. The goal is to help teach the kids in the camp to speak English.

The reason for this is not so that they can understand the words of the latest Brittany Spears song, but so that they can get out of poverty. Children who learn English have many more job and educational opportunities, which help to bring them (and their families) out of the cycle of poverty that many are entrenched in. In the process, I'm sure we'll maximize our opportunites to share the gospel.

Tonight I spent some time on Google, trying to find some resouces for learning Khmer (the language spoken in Cambodia). Hopefully, in the next six months, I'll learn to say the really important things like "Where are the Doughnuts" and "Man - that's a cool sitar solo!" - you know, the things you just can't get by without.

That's it for now. Hopefully I won't be so delinquent with my next posts!

(And hopefully John Belushi will forgive my demented sense of humor . . . )