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Wheat and Tares

Nov 20, 2009

by Steve Hyde

Cambodia, farming, harvest, Matthew 13:24-43, rice, tares, wheat

Wheat and rice look quite similar and have similar properties. Another unique aspect is that both wheat and rice have counterfeits as well. The “tares”. In the Cambodian language it is called “song-gnie”. It looks very similar to rice when growing, yet when it turns harvest time

Enough Soy Sauce!

Nov 12, 2009

by Steve Hyde

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Cambodia, Disaster Response, flooding, Giving, help, hungry, love, Matthew 6:1-4, poor, Poverty, rice, slum, squatters

Do you know how they treat poor people in Cambodia? They give them a bottle of soy sauce and take their picture. I am not sure who is supposed to be the one feeling blessed, the photographer or the impoverished villager.

You Need the Poor

Oct 27, 2009

by Steve Hyde

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777, Cambodia, drought, financial security, food security, food shortages, Genesis 47:20-24, global warming, hungry, Joseph, jubilee, land, poor, Poverty, rice, rural, urban, urbanites, wealthy

If you are an urbanite just remember you can’t eat concrete. You need the poor. Love them, treat them with respect and give them the full value of the fruit of their labor.

Typhoon Blasts Cambodia

Oct 06, 2009

by Steve Hyde

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Cambodia, Disaster Response, flooding, help, Poverty, rice, roads

Last week Typhoon Ketsana flooded much of northern Cambodia. Most rivers broke their banks and flooding and destroying an estimated 75,000 acres of rice fields, just as they are nearing harvest time. 11 people died as the strong winds collapsed their houses. Most of the dead were wo

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