Safely arrived in Dubai

Now for a 15 hour layover. Then next stop Addis Ababa Ethiopia.

US Fifty5five Team

Ethiopia Bound

Today start our newest adventure. We fly out from San Francisco. Some of us had to drive in from Markleeville  so 3 extra hours to add to the travel time.
Please pray for safe travels, health, unity, all luggage arrives with us and undamaged, the further travel issues and that the Kenyans meeting us have no difficulty either.
I will try to blog but that is always dependent on the circumstances and surroundings.

Fifty5five has crossed the threshold

We wrapped up the week by finding many beautiful items for the boutique (the next Tea is May 2). We toured the killing fields,  Wat Phnom, and the royal palace from the outside.
We had a final dinner with our friends Daleep,  Tithda, and Jackie at Suki Soup. To round out the evening we tried our first cricket.  We gone to the next level.
We are packed and ready to depart for home in the morning.

It's a wrap!

Thank you for your prayers for energy. We were revived today.

Teacher training wrapped up  with storytelling, worship, and games.

In the training there was a Vietnamese Pastor. There is a lot of disention because of history. They brought him in to minister to the Vietnamese people. He is hearing English, that is translated to Khmer, that is then translated into Vietnamese. He is smiling and enjoying and participating in the training. What a trooper.

VBS was acted out by the locals. They did a great job.

Chris and Mary Ann Young, the missionary who coordinated our 2007 trip,surprised us at lunch. It was a blessing to catch up. The Lord orchestrated a time of encouragement.

We did a debriefing with those from training. They shared how people can give money or do service  but what Fifty5five left was a sustainable model. They had already began to use it. To God be the glory.

We leave resources for them to utilize. They already pooled the resources to use. Some of it made its way to the main floor and was being used. Their open door policy will use them to maximum capacity.

It was an honor and pleasure to serve with AIM/Rehab's House. Thank you for allowing us to be the hands and feet. Your prayers and support are the backbone of this ministry.

Day 4 Teacher Training and VBS

The teachers learned about creating costumes out of local resources.  They practiced skits and other skills. They are really  awesome.
The team is pretty wiped out today. Most are still waking around 3 am and at the latest 5:30.  We tried caffeine and a cat nat. Neither solved the delima. 
VBS was on salvation. The kids watch scruff the dog make the ultimate sacrifice for kip the robot. They learned about sin and salvation. There were lots of little  hands raised to receive Jesus in their hearts.
Tomorrow  finishes our service with Agape International Missions. Please pray for energy and endurance.

Day 3 Teacher Training /VBS

Day 3 Teacher Training:
We all shared different personalities and how God uses them.  Becky taught  the 10 commandments on her hands. Linda and Jerry taught different ideas for memory verse games. It's very fun to watch adults imitate animals. It's a fun way to teach kids scripture.

VBS:
Today was by far the best day. We taught on forgiveness of sin. The teachers had fun using the crazy bag of ideas. For example...stick out your tongue and say the memory verse. The teachers may have enjoyed it more than the kids.

It wouldn't be a mission trip without a little creepy crawly. At dinner Kelsey poured her tea and there were 3 cockroaches in her cup.  Two were drowned and the other came running out at me. In America we'd have immediately left.  But true to being a missionary, we stayed and ate dinner. Kelsey was done with the whole idea of tea.

The weather has been in the high 80's low 90s.  We are hot and the locals are cold. We open a window or turn on a fan and they close it or turn it off.  We even prayed for a  family who lost a family member to the 'cold'.  It certainly is not the hottest we've been in but, coming from the true cold it's hot to us. Over all it has been a comfortable trip for a mission trip. We've been blessed with air in our rooms and van. Thank you for your continued prayers. They are so valuable.

The end of the day we were happy to have a wet one and a cold one...water that is.