Dave: Hi all - we are at an internet cafe' in Siem Reap tonight where we will be till Sunday then returning to Battam Bang where we are staying at the Good's home. Last night was a night of trusting Him as when we got to our motel room there was not enough rooms so we went to another and there was no room at the inn - after some prayer time we went to one more and found just what we needed. Sunady morning we had our first small injury - Roger fell on the slipper floor from the rain at breakfast - but he is OK - Praise God for his protecting - I'll let him fill in the details. Today we were going to visit the cow-tractor project but when we almost go there had to turn back because a truck that had been swallowed up by a pot hole - almost litteraly. Tonight we are in Siem Reap and will be meeting with the POL's tomorrow. Sunday we will worship with the Siem Reap GBC then returning to Battam Bang Sunday afternoon.
Prayers - safety as we travel on roads, health and safety for us, and productive time with the POL's tomorrow.

Roger: You could tell we were at the right place by the well by the road that unashamedly had on it, Jesus said, ‘I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.’” On Tuesday we visited a village near the town of Pursat about halfway between Phnom Penh and Battambang. The people of the village are not Khmer like most Cambodians, neither are they Buddhist. We were there to talk to them about several projects that are ongoing. They are involved in a heifer project in which we purchased 5 heifers for them and to repay they return the first and third calves to CTM. We will use them then give the claves when they are weaned to another Point of Light to start a similar project. Right now there is one calf. Two more are on their way. So next year at this time we should be able to start another project. We did find out that that the other two “heifers” will not be having calves anytime soon, since they are really steers. Soemhow in the the cross-cultural and cross language communication it was not clear that all 5 were to be heifers. The other project involves fish; they have a plan to raise talapia(sp?). They already have a pond. These fish sell at a better and more stable price than the typical fish from the Tonle Sap Lake.
We also had an interesting discussion about what the Christians in that community believe about Jesus and His exclusive claims. It just emphasized the point that the gospel is hard to share clearly even to our own culture and moreso across cultures. So we need to ask a lot of questions to clarify.
We arrived to spend the night at the home of Kent and Becky Good. That was sweet. We had a fun discussion of words like “sweet” that confuse missionaries because they are not a regular part of U.S. Culture. Think of words like “bad”, “hot’, “cool”
Wednesday we head to look at a hotel in Battambang that may become a ministry center, a hotel, and a training center. We are also looking at a pig farm. These are macro enterprises instead of microenteprises like we have been doing. This is the area where Dave will play a big part.. At this point we would like to just get an estimate of what it is going to take to do these two projects.
Sorry, there are no pictures as I cannot figure out how to do that again
Can you pray for:
Good cross-cultural communication
Dave to be able to gather the information he needs to make an estimate of the cost and needs for the hotel/ ministry center and the pig farm.
Good adjustment to the time change (we are still waking at 3 AM)
Safety in our travels to Sisophon, Reaksmey Samiki and Siem Reap in the next two days.
(Pictures are of the well and at the Good's house - Kent, Becky, Roger, Jessica, Tim, and Ohn)

Roger: Well, we made it. Steve and Deb Wise met us at Phnom Penh airport and we immediately went to Dairy Queen for a Blizzard. It was great after airport food. We were also able to take a package to the mother of Viseth Hou, an ATS Seminary student. (She is picture with Dave, Roger, Steve and Deb) Tommorrow we go to the town of Pursat to look at a pond and heifer project.
Dave: This is an amazing place. The trip was....well long. But worth every moment of it. DQ is a great hello at the airport when you arrive here. Weather - hot, humid and muggy.

This is the blog of Dave and Roger. We want to try this to communicate with everyone who is wondering and praying about how we are doing and what we are doing in Cambodia. We are traveling there on behalf of Grace Brethren International Missions from October 22, 2005 until November 5, 2005. Our role is to work in the area of development. On this trip we will be following up on several projects that have already been started, investigate a couple of new projects and to learn about ways to teach health lessons to the Cambodians. Our main method is to identify men and women who are already interested and doing development and to come along beside them as they seek to improve their communities. We believe this is the good way to avoid transplanting American Culture. The name of our ministry is CTM, Community Transformation Ministries. We believe in wholistic development that impacts the physical, emotional, social and spriritual lives of the people of Cambodia.
One of the problems that can occur as you do development work is to get into the rational mindset of working on projects, developing a detached mindset. On this trip, we ask you to pray to our Lord Jesus that we would see the people with His heart.
The picture is of a man named Suah. We were able to purchase a Tuk-Tuk for him. He lives in the town of Siem Reap and will use this for a tourist business. He will be paying back the loan with service for CTM. The man and woman in the Tuk-Tuk are Chhom and his wife. We were able to help him with his plant nursery. We will tell you more about these and other projects as we see them on our journey.