During rainy season in Cambodia our showers are fast and violent. It will rarely rain for hours on end, but usually strong weather systems move across Cambodia rapidly. They are often preceded by violent wind storms; many which whip up micro-tornadoes. Our Kracheh children’s center was hit by a micro-tornado a few years ago and…
I was shocked, just like the nation and much of the world, at the bombing of the Boston Marathon. In the first video feed I saw an elderly runner fall off his feet, likely hit my shrapnel. My eyes fixated on him. People didn’t know what to do. They didn’t know what happened. Yet, in…
I arrived after a long trip in Houston, TX, together with my wife, to speak at Kingsland Baptist Church to speak at a special missions service. Upon arrival at the airport I heard the news of a mass shooting of 27 young children and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut by a…
Pastor Binar started in 2012 with a lot of hope. He was a rural pastor in Mindanao who never had a chance to receive a Bible School education, but he has done his best with the church he started. He had little formal education and lived in the mountains far from any urban Bible school.…
On Tuesday, December 4 at about 3 o’clock in the morning Typhoon Bopha, called “Pablo” in the Philippines, hit Eastern Mindanao island in the Philippines. When the eye slammed into the rugged east coast of Mindanao it was a Category 5 storm, simply called a “Super Typhoon” in the Philippines. It’s winds were over 150…
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…
“Facing Terror” by Carrie McDonnall. Thomas Nelson. Nashville, TN. 235 pages. Review by Steve Hyde “Facing Terror” was the best book I read in 2011. It is a must-read biography which will warm your heart. I like to read biographies, but this one I had a special connection too. It is the story of…
A few days ago I was going around Poipet. I was on the prowl. I regularly move around the city, in back alley side streets and in places where it is hard to go. I am looking for the people and praying as I go to see how God would use me to help people. …
On July 21 I asked people to pray that it would not rain in Poipet. As part of our community development, we have been rehabilitating schools. The schools were damaged by rain and floods, so to fix them, we needed dry weather. Specifically, we were pouring concrete at one school to make a driveway and…
I remember the moment when I heard that an 8.9 magnitude earthquake struck northern Japan. I know my close friends and partners in ministry are based 300km north of Tokyo in Sendai. The initial report I received on my mobile phone said the quake was centered 280km northeast of Tokyo. All I could do was…