Jungle Adventures in the countries of the world.
Merry Christmas from Cambodia! This was a great year for us in Cambodia and the region where we work. Our team of leaders planted as many as 300 churches in Cambodia alone and helped many other leaders as well including the Philippines and Ethiopia as well. This year I trained pastors and visited: in Africa:…
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Today I had a revelation. I was working all day long on a backhoe. This is a special backhoe. I think you can call it a “missionary” backhoe. I have had it now for about 4 or 5 years. My backhoe was born in 1973, two years after me! I have another one from 1967…
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How important is culture? Culture determines how you live your life. It determines the way you do church. It determines the way you work at your job or business. It determines the way you think and what you believe. Culture affects not only what you believe about God, but the architectural style of your church…
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For nearly three years we have been working on solutions for flooding in Poipet. We have helped schools, communities and people all across Poipet get out of the annual floods which devastated the city. Long gone are massive floods which inundate the whole city, but there are still pockets of flooding left due to a…
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Three years ago when we built our children’s center in Poipet, we hired a contractor to build us three water tanks. Though he promised he would “guarantee” the water towers forever, I noticed problems immediately. The steel beams were too thin and the foundations too weak. Two of the water tank towers have already broken…
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Travel Tuesdays: Top Heavy Taxi Tonight, next to my house in Poipet, Cambodia I saw a strange shape in the road. As my lights illuminated the road I saw a bizarre sight. I met the driver and asked him what happened. . . through my laughing. He said, and I quote, “The road is too…
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Our day started early. Craig and Holly, from Australia on sabbatical from Stairway Church, are helping us with the new church plant. Their day started the earliest. Their cute baby girl started vomiting in the night. It was a long night for them. Added to that, it rained all night. When we got up in…
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Twelve hours from now, we are launching a new church in Poipet, Cambodia. The church is focused on children and demonstrating the love of Christ. This last week has been a challenge, but it is one I have clearly seen before. It is satan’s attempt to discourage me or cause me to quit what God…
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Nearly three years ago God spoke to me about Poipet being a gateway in the spiritual as it is in the natural (the busiest border crossing in Cambodia). Since that time we started our Imparting Smiles children center to help children. We started two companies (construction company and plantation), we are building a women’s center called…
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Did you ever wonder what a thousand kid party looks like? Come to Poipet, Cambodia! This last week, Kingsland Baptist Church sent us a mission team to work do a VBS (Vacation Bible School) here in Poipet. About three times a year we hold a community wide children’s party! It last four days and the…
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