David and Tana making a literal pile of new friends at Centre of Peace orphanage this morning I am purring through this week. We've got a great team of 10 Kiwis in town led by Donald Scott, a pastor and friend from Christchurch. It thrills me more than I can say to see a pastor lead a group of his congregation out to Cambodia, to put into this nation in a purposeful way.
The team have had a full schedule prepared for them by the legendery Karen Hanna, an Aussie who wonderfully administrates the coming of teams into the church. Yesterday they were involved in the Joytime Club - an outreach to street children around the Olympic Market area. I got to pop up for 15 minutes and found Donald on security duty. He was a happy man. He had been watching his team cleaning the kids and washing their feet. His comment was 'it does not get much better than this - seeing our young people washing the feet of the street children'.
Donald's eldest son Jono horsing around with the boys
Today the team are in a slum area. Then tomorrow they hit the province for a Christmas outreach. Next week includes taking everybody at the Centre of Peace orphanage to the beach for two days/one night. That is 70 kids and 10 staff/adults. No wonder the kids there are so full on boisterous today. They are excited out of their little skins!!
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