Cambodia was truly an amazing trip! As a team we were able to be a small part of Tony and Trish’s strategic plan to help win the Cham people to Christ.  Tony is a wonderful host and showed us many sites, much scenery, and a lot of unbelievable culture.   The Cham are beautiful people, very respectful, and so happy to have the Americans helping them.   However, the most incredible thing was to meet a Cham believer.  Their faith was real and strong and there was a connection with them.   This was a brother or sister in Christ who had to give up a lot to be known as a Christian.

A large part of our trip was working in the clinic.  It was nothing fancy… just a hut on stilts.  Throughout the day I would watch the village people through a small hole in the wall.  They would cook and work and come to the well for their water.  There was a lady on our team who daily played worship songs on her flute for the children below as they were waiting to be seen in the clinic.  One day she started playing “glorify Thy name in all the earth”.  It was at that moment that the Holy Spirit spoke and impressed on my heart that yes, God is working in all of the earth and His name will be glorified even to the uttermost part of Cambodia and all around the globe.

I am so thankful to have seen how a short-term mission trip can help our career missionaries so much.  It was awesome to be a part of God’s work and be His hands and feet in Cambodia.  Thank you for all your prayers!

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Debbie was one of our medical team members on our recent trip to Cambodia.  This was Debbie’s first international short-term mission experience.  Her husband and daughter are planning to take an international short-term trip this summer.

• God continues to challenge me through our series through the Sermon on the Mount.
• I have renewed my “covenant with my eyes” (Job 31:1)!  If you need help in this area, visit www.unshackledministries.org)
• We must not reduce sexual purity to simply external compliance.
• Our hearts follow our eyes!
• Sin is not something to be “treated” it is something to be condemned in our lives.
• I’m grateful for a church family who loves and sacrifices for teenagers.
• What a tremendous weekend at our students’ Anchor Down DNOW.
• Grateful for many decisions made this weekend for salvation & baptism.
• I’m excited about a new group of prayer warriors who will be praying throughout our sanctuary on Mondays @ 9am.
• Praying for several of our families who lost loved ones over the weekend.
• I’m ready for the warmth of Spring to invade the Florida Gulf Coast!
• I’m excited about Financial Peace University launching March 28th!
• Looking forward to reading Acts, 1-2 Timothy, & Galatians this week as a part of our New Thru 40 Campaign.

• Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.
• Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steal beam.
• In England, a cigarette is referred to as a “fag.”
• According to research, the most productive workday is Tuesday and the least productive is Friday.
• An ostrich egg can make approximately 11 1/2 omelets.
• Horses cannot vomit.
• The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
• The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.
• Humans blink there eyes once every six seconds (i.e. in the course of a lifetime we blink about 250 million times).
• The fleshly projection above the bill of a turkey is called a “snood”.