Memories old and new - Grant

This Sunday - Pentecost - Mothers' Day - we went to church with Clay Butler of ARC. The service was two and a quarter hours - and you thought services at Fairview were getting long the last little while. Don't worry I don't have any new ideas from todays service about going longer.

We are not able to go to Sunshine House this trip so we made a trip to Place of Rescue - Marie Ens' ministry about 45 minutes outside of Phnom Penh. I'll let the team speak for themselves but it is almost always a profound experience to be in a place with families with dying AIDS victims and about 140 orphans who are loved and cared for. You'll read from some of the others how important this visit was for them.

For me it was a place of memories. Rescue was the place that Grace and I visited when she first met Sokna and her mom Phalla. It was the place we stayed for our visit in 2003. It was the place Grace stayed for her very long visit from October of 2004 to February of 2005 as we were working to bring Sokna home to Canada.

Rescue is very different now because it has grown so much but everywhere I looked there were memories of passed experiences - good and bad.

We had a great time in our nightly reflection time together and we are pumped to get back to Svay Pak and Rahab's House. We have new energy and if not new purpose we have an even more finely tuned purpose.

Thanks for your prayers. It means so much to us that we have such support back home - and it is making a PROFOUND difference to us here.

Peace in Jesus,

Grant