Cambodia Bible Education Centre

Changing lives Cambodia You want to change the world, big things, grand adventures, etc Just a little bit of respect goes a long way Im up in Seam Reap (6hrs north west of Phnom Penh, where the famous temples are) with Dave, where doing the whole temple thing, riding elephants, chatting to the locals. We find out that up north the water situation aint that great, they only have one rice harvest a year, where down south its wet all the time. So Seam Reap, famous for the Angkor temple complex, and thousands of others, many many tourist come in, just fly in then out. Theres a western street called “pub street”, which me and dave named “freakout street” (as it was clean and ritzy and was all westerners eating western food in an asian country – and it really freaked us out) So back to these westerner dudes, they come here speak there own language, treat the khmer (cambodian people) like they are second class (cos they are poorer and don’t have the best education) and disrespect their cultur...

*thank you for this :) * dave and me crusing the streets arriving in the traditional way (on a tuk-tuk) On thurday , Dave (older brother) arrived safely in cambodia we have been hanging out since all is well at the BEC, dorms and LCDI love from all, luv ben xo

*new chook pen at lcdi * carrot, dani and gab at airport - gab leaving *carrot at 'nam border * asleep on bus * and again* and again - had to stop his head falling out the window - hehe on top of sam mountian * lady paddling at chow doc * this strawberry milkshake was better than any banana mikshake ive ever had (except for the bananarama) hi all jonno and I just got back from an adventure filled Vietnam, dodging booby traps, riding buses at night (while people prayed to buddah it the hope he would save the bus), ripping of border guards and moto drivers, and having a good old time we both jumped around the border a bit and now have been to ‘Nam Cambodia 20 times we had the departure of gab, sarah, mic, mirri and family over the weekend, so it has become a lot smaller all of a sudden I go to pick dave up from the airport in an hour garden at lcdi going strong and ther’ve got a chook pen and 5 chooks and 3 ducks also the sewer system is in place and worki...

G'day everyone I don't even know where to begin. these past few weeks having been buzzing with activity, non stop. I am meant to be leaving Cambodia tomorrow, but I think I'll leave things in chronological order So I'll get back to that later. me and Ben spent a week in Vietnam, we had to get our visas renewed so we checked out a bit of the country anyway. many many stories about Nam....but I guess we'll leave them and focus on Cambodge as this place never stops. I guess I'll start with the bad news. Gab left for Australia today...so once again there were tears flowing from the girl dormers. I think they will miss her a lot. Michael, Miriam, Sarah Ann, Toby and Tabitha all had to leave on Saturday. many of the dormers came around to say Chum Reap Leah. there were tears on this occassian as well. I think they will all miss Cambodia heaps. they have all done so much for this place, and are worthy of all credit, especially Michael. He never stops. he has done a lot...

Hey all the King here again. giving you the slow speed download from Cambodge. and what an eventful week its been here once again. so much to tell, good and bad. I guess I'll start with the bad news again. My older sister (and fiancé 3 years running) has departed from our presence here in Cambodia and gone back to the sunburnt country. It was awsome having Sammy here with us, she built relationships and bridges that couldn't have been done without her. she was like the iron that sort of ironed out the bad crinkles that no one really likes to see. we'll miss the demon and we ask that God be with her and bless her. So Sammy from Cambodge, Bray Botene Po and Akune Chedran. chum reap Leah yay. Josh and Ben came and slept at the boys dorm last night and Sarah N, Gabs and Loy went and stayed at the girls dorms. was cool as having the boys over. I really enjoyed the experience, as I think they did. me and Josh took the tuk tuk express all the way there and all the way home this mo...

*josh living up mission work *sam leaving the airport *vanna,gabs,dani,sammy,ren at the airport *ren and sam yesterday we took the traditional dropping off ride to the airport and dropped sammy off, who goes back to oz after a 4 month stay, in which she has had a huge impact on the girls both at the dorm and in the community, we thank you heaps and say all the best back in oz sam, take care and we hope to see you back here riel soon :) josh and sarah saywell from brizzy have just arrived and we got them straight into it, josh just set up the hammock and sarah was out with the girls at the marketsjosh and sarah are here for a 6 month stay and a fitting right at home and going out and doing heaps of stuff (sorry for this word but it does actually describe allot in one word even tho you may not be away of what that "stuff" is) the other night me, gabs, sammy and jonno, jumped on baby and went for a spin over to the dorms... 4 on a moto, there wasnt enough room for jonno on t...

Greetings all, I thought I'd quickly jot down a small blog for all those who are suffering an overdose of broad Australian accents, youthful exuberance and bad spelling. At least, I'm hoping that my spelling will be better :). Time is rapidly running out for those who must needs return for the beginning of a new university semester and sadly, it is only now that some sense of normalcy is returning to the schedule at the BEC. As Jonno explained so eloquently, there has been some movement towards reviewing the old contact list with a view to revitalising its contents. This has yielded some results, although time will tell whether the responses on the phone are a real indicator of interest. We did however receive a visit from a very old contact, LeungSeng, which should give James Rass some nostalgia. The great admin and maintenance extravaganza I ran this week was a limited success. I'm counting a limited success as beter than a failure, so it's fair to say that some ...