The adventure and excitement continue with Team Cambodia.  Today’s been another day marked by the providence of God.  This morning we left Siem Reap to return to Phnom Penh.  BJ commented yesterday on the wisdom of giving ourselves a full day to travel just to be safe.  So, after stocking up on coffee and diesel we began to make our way back.

The next two weeks are the run up for the Cambodian national elections and as the attached photo’s show, the Cambodian People’s party was out in force.  Beside dodging the truckloads of the election faithful there were the normal moto’s, cars and the occasional cow or water buffalo.

Half way through the journey, the time came for testing our trust and patience…the van broke down.  But, God being providential as always, sovereignly arranged for it to happen right in front of a petrol station just a stones throw away from the van chieng (mechanic).  The men pushed, the ladies encouraged and BJ took off down the road on foot.  BJ quickly found out that the closest chieng was too busy, took off down the road and was picked up by a moto driver.  The man took him to a second chieng, who specialized in vans and was willing to help us.

In the mean time we held an impromptu prayer service and started planning our vacation bible school for tomorrow.  The chieng made short work of the engine and soon we were back on the road to Phnom Penh.  We arrived safely with no further incident.

The evening began with dinner at the Lopez’s, followed by desert, coffee and then the “special” coffee.  Just about everyone tried the Indonesian coffee that is the rarest in the world.  This coffee is shall we say first eating by a cat…that aside it is quiet good and everyone liked it.  More to the point of the evening, all of the team shared our testimonies and then finished our preparations for VBS.  The plans are finished, translations practiced, songs selected and games prepared.

Tomorrow we set out for Kampong Speu (a province in Cambodia) to a small village and will minister to upwards of 50 children.  As many of you read this we will be with the children, so continue to pray for them and for us to be effective instruments of God’s grace.