Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Flight Details!!

SO, Exciting news!!

We have our flight details!

We will be flying out on May 12 and returning June 2!


Please keep our team in your prayers. As of right now we are preparing to have a fundraiser at our school where we will be selling jewelry(prices may very) and some awesome t-shirts(created by our lovely Alicia Stamm; $10) and some fun things like chocolate cover spiders(we are debating on whether we should do a bet: if we sell all our chocolate covered tarantulas we will all eat a fried tarantula in Cambodia, take a picture, and post it!!) Another fundraiser that we will be doing will be held at chick-fila in West Palm, on Palm Beach Lakes Blvd., people will be able to come in and support us by buying a meal and turning in one of our flyers, also by spinning the Chick-fila wheel, in which they donate a dollar and win something from Chick-fila. We are also working on sending out 2nd letters to keep people updated!


As far as finances go as a team we have $4537.25 and owe $7462.75. Please pray for the provisions of our team. We are all trusting in God and doing all that we can do as a team to get where God is calling us to go. Thank you all for your support!


The more I study Cambodia and read about the girls that we will be serving, the more that I am just blown away at that fact that God wants to use me to serve such beautiful people and that I get to tell them about how great God's love for them!


God Bless all of you this Easter weekend. Remember Christ and all that He has done for you. All glory be to God, forever and ever. Amen.


Wrapped in His wonderful grace,

Amber Gift

Team Cambodia

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

a city on a phnom

Sarah~

Today, sitting in the surgical waiting room while my brother is undergoing surgery on his shoulder, I realized there has been a lot of praying to the Lord as Healer lately in my life, for myself and others: healing my brother's shoulder, my heart, Cambodia, my mom's friend's dad...


Healing Cambodia. I finish a memoir titled First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers. I know that God wants to heal these people and to be known an infinite amount more than my own heart desires as I wince and tear up at the thought of what happened in the 1960's genocide.

I start to flip through a CULTURE SHOCK booklet and read a few facts on Cambodia, specifically the capital where we're expected to be a majority of the time.


phnom in Phnom Penh means hill~


Interesting. Oh good, we can now go back to see my twin. I close the book and tuck it into my bag. Finally home from the hospital, my brother doing well (praise the Lord!) I search for verses listed to pray for girls that are sex-trafficked victims, for their oppressors, for the church on justice, etc.

One of them is from Matthew 5.


"You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden."


phnom in Phnom Penh means hill~


He is not only Healer but the Light of the world. Another prayer is given, not just for healing but for the people of Cambodia, for the girls in the orphanage, for this place of Phnom Penh- to believe Jesus and in turn shine, like a city on a hill. And for us as well as followers of Jesus in Cambodia to shine, too, like


a city on a phnom


It cannot be hidden. God be praised!


"Oh let Your kingdom come on earth, and let Your will be done- yeah, light up the world with Your love...our eyes will see the glory of God. As You light up...as You light up the world, send Your glory." Desperation Band, Light Up the World