Sok Subi, (Hello in Khmer)
Well, it is now May 6th, one more day in Cambodia. It has gone by so fast.Our team has did a number of ministries here and have really just fallen in love with the khmer people and their culture.We ran an English class every afternoon and got real close to some of the students. We have went to a couple of orphanages,a drug rehab,slums,churches,and outside villiages.Cambodia is a very poor nation and we have seen some exteme poverty.On Sundays our team goes to a slum and helps with a program for the kids. All these kids need is a little love and playful attitudes. The first Sunday we get there and just walk around and literally collect tons of kids by just walking around. We bring them to a building accross the street and sing,color,play games, and just really love on them. I am not exagerating when I say we walk out of there soak in wet with sweat and covered in dirt.hahah But we love it, thats how we look all the time but its such a joy to not care and get dirty with the kids. It also shows them that we are not "to good to get dirty" We have went back a number of times and that is always a joy for us because we dont always get to do the same ministry twice. The kids remember us and ooohhhh its just wonderful. Yesterday, me, Alli, Ruth, and Jeremy went to the slum/orphanage to do a little prayer walking because there is a really bad off orphange located in the middle of this slum, that has some sex trafficing and just other dangerous stuff going own. We got to talk to this awesome christian lady that lives in the slum but then walked around and ended up in the orphanage.Lord please send someone to take over this orphanage or someone in a higher position to see what is going own. That is the prayer we prayed over and over again. We enter this orphanage in the middle of this dirty, garbage dump slum and there are people everywhere doing different things. Everyone was getting ready for a performance. They stick all the really pretty kids up on stage to dance. All the kids that were not that pretty were just running around with no shoes and hardly any cloths on. They dress them really nice, put makeup and jewlery on them and then they dance for everyone. Next they sell them to the foreigner men. Sad. It was so hard for me and Alli to sit there and watch these beautful girls dance on this stage,knowing that they we not happy, they were nothing but skin and bone, they lived in a dump orphanage for whatever reason, their parents died of HIV, their parents shouldnt take care of them, there were so many reasons but me and Alli really felt called back to this place. We know there is not much we can do in 1 day but we will go back in our free time tomorrow and just talk to the people that we have built relationships with and just left them up to our wonderful father who can make anything possable.There are so many other things that I could write about but I just wanted to tell you that bit so please keep the issue of sex trafficing in your prayers because that is a huge issue in all the places we are going too. Northern Thai and India is were most of Asia sex trafficing is taking place. Thanks to everyone, We love ya and God Bless, Kayla Hardy
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