More Pictures of this Wonderfully Different World

A cute Khmer member who cannot come to church now because she is going to school and has to take exams on the weekend. Her goal is to go to Los Angeles where her sister lives. She is trying to pass and exam that shows she has a skill in sewing so she can have a skill when she gets to the USA.


The members house where we did the service project. They are the sweetest kindest people, but they don't have a dang thing. Shopping at DI for them would be like shopping at Sax 5th avenue for us.




We did a service project for a member and moved Mt. Nebo from one side of her yard to the other. The crazy basket looking thing is how we moved the dirt. We would rake it into the basket and then carry the basket and dump in to where she needed it. It would have been great to have Tom's bobcat for about 20 minutes, but then there would go all the service hours.



This is the scaffolding they use. It is just tied together with ropes, string, wire or whatever they have. They just have a huge pile of bamboo sticks lying around the construction sites and they just throw it together and climb on it and go to work. I have never seen a backhoe or forklift of any kind. They just have a pulley and rope to lift everything up to the guys working on the house. It takes about 6 guys to lift a bag of bricks up to them or a bucket of cement.





This is the house and it is all cement structure with very little rebar in the cement and what they do use is about 1/4 inch. If there were ever an earth quake here the whole country would be flat, but the interesting thing is you can really feel the Lord's spirit here. They have never had a major natural disaster in Cambodia, only war after war.

This is the bricks that they make and they are all over the place. They just stack them randomly in the wall and don't use any rebar or a level of any kind and do not strike the joints either.