TIC’s Mission Effort in Cambodia Opportunity to be in the Mission Field. TIC is full of many different opportunities to meet and serve people both here locally and throughout Asia. One of my favorite annual events is the annual Cambodia Mission Trip. What started off as a youth trip evolved into a church wide trip. Friends, family, and acquaintances are all invited to join us when we go to Cambodia to experience ministry at the ground level. This booklet is an quick overview of what we have done in the past. This years projects will similar. No special skills are needed, just a big heart and a willingness to move outside your comfort zone to reach out to children who need a little bit of attention. May God direct you in your thoughts and decisions as you consider joining us. New Hope Children’s Homes
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TIC’s Mission Effort in Cambodia
Opportunity to be in the
Mission Field.
TIC is full of many different opportunities to meet and
serve people both here locally and throughout Asia.
One of my favorite annual events is the annual Cambodia Mission Trip. What
started off as a youth trip evolved into a church wide trip. Friends, family, and
acquaintances are all invited to join us
when we go to Cambodia to experience ministry at the ground level.
This booklet is an quick overview of what
we have done in the past. This years projects will similar. No special skills are
needed, just a big heart and a willingness
to move outside your comfort zone to reach out to children who need a little bit of attention.
May God direct you in your thoughts and decisions as you consider joining us.
New Hope
Children’s
Homes
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In the summer of 2004, Taipei International
Church (TIC) youth went to Cambodia to for a
mission trip. While there, we helped construct
homes for families in need and spent some time at
two different orphanages. God blessed us with two
days of doing ministry and being ministered to by the
orphans and by introducing us to Pastor Sinai and
Somalay. The experience at the orphanages
prompted us to want to go back to Cambodia again to
work with New Hope for Orphans, Pastor Sinai and
Somalay. The team went to Cambodia with the
purpose to build housing for those in need, little did we know God had a greater purpose.
After much prayer, and a
exploratory trip by former TIC members
from the USA, Mike & Beverly Gilliam.
After hearing the report on their
exploratory trip, everyone agreed God
wanted TIC to partner with Pastor Sinai
in Cambodia. TIC’s Paradyme Youth
Ministry decided to return to Cambodia
in 2005 to work with Pastor Sinai and
New Hope for Orphans.
Mike Gilliam (center with cap on), Pastor Sinai, Somalay
(both to the right of Mike), Beverly Gilliam (far right)
History: 2005
History: The Beginnings
In March of 2005, former TIC members from South
Africa, Hennie & Madelein Prinsloo and Pastor Doug went
for a planning trip. In a one week whirlwind trip we
traveled all over Cambodia with Pastor Sinai visiting people,
churches and orphanages.
A few days into the trip we arrived at a village in
Northwest Cambodia near the Thailand border. In this
orphanage we found that the boys needed to sleep outside
in the former chicken coup which stood over a fish pond
(see pictures next page). Pastor Sinai shared with us his Hennie & his new friend
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Left: Kwanele and Sam who spent a
month in Cambodia in 2005.
Below: Chicken coup were boys in the
orphanage slept.
To this day the contractor we worked with wants us to bring more youth to work. Not only is the labor free, but they are hard workers. (Left - foreground: tying off rebar, background: digging the
foundation; Right - digging ditch for drainage pipe)
Above: New dorm building (turned out so nice the
girls moved into it)
Right: Plaque recognizing what God provided through TIC.
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Team members found themselves
challenged as they usually spend several
nights sleeping on the floor of the
orphanages.
wish to have a simple building for
the boys. Conversations helped us
discover his long term vision for the
orphanage, we found his true desire
was for a two story concrete
building, with a dorm on top, room
for house parents, and an open
community space below.
For 2005, we decided to take on the task of building the
fore mentioned building and several other small projects in
the area, including replacing a grass hut with a building for a
village church about ten kilometers away. God provided funds
and a building was raised which is now used as a girls
dormitory. Additional funds raised went to the purchase
generators, school clothing, land, and other smaller buildings,
sponsorships for seventeen children and other needs of the
New Hope For Orphans. Two separate teams went for ten day
trips, three youth spent seventeen days and three spent a
month in Cambodia.
The work and the living conditions where hard. There was not electricity, running water or
showers and it was hot and humid day and night. We slept either on the floor of the church
building or outside under mosquito nets and in close proximity. However, the youth and adults (and
one child) mustarded strength from God and not only survived but thrived. Within a week the first
team had laid the foundation an by the time the second team left construction had began on the
second floor. The building was finished and dedicated a few months later.
Before and After
Read about God’s amazing provision for the projects in The Work, Question , Need & God's Provision at the end.
Heat, humidity, hard floors didn’t add up
to good sleep, however all felt the
sacrifices was worth it because they
enjoyed the interaction and that
developed by staying at the orphanages.
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The stories continue, but by now I think you have a good foundation of TIC involvement in
Cambodia, so I will just give a short overview of each year since 2006.
In 2006, we went to Kampong Chnang.
Funds were raised for land, and the construction
of a church building, along with sponsorships.
While on location the youth worked on an
completed the foundation. A second smaller
team went to the Koh Kong orphanage to build a
kitchen.
In previous years one of the best parts of
the mission trip were the connections made with
the children and adults in the orphanages and
surrounding villages. Therefore, in 2007 we
changed the focus of our mission trip from construction to the orphans themselves. Time was spent
traveling to several different orphanages. While at the orphanage mission team members played
games, preformed skits, taught a Bible lesson and crafts, spent time with, and shared a meal with
the orphans and staff. We helped for a few days doing construction.
History: 2006 & 2007
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2008 marked the first year of the family mission trip.
In previous years the trips had been limited to teenagers
and adult sponsors. In 2008 the trip was open to all TIC
members, attendees and friends. A total of 48 people
divided into three teams undertaking projects at four
different orphanages. The projects ranged from light
construction, painting, installation of water filtration and
outreach.
In 2009 the main projects were a fence,
installation of two playgrounds, water filtration,
outreach and the building of a care takers house
for an orphanage farm. Forty-six people divided
into three teams and visited several locations.
The fence was a large project and was headed up
by Ray Heberer a TIC youth, who decided to build
it for his Eagle Scout Project.
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History: 2008 & 2009 Left: Ray working on the fence project.
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Ministry by
happenstance:?
In 2007, we
spent one day
traveling to a village
on an island on the
Tonle Sap river. This
was at the request of a
house church pastor.
When we got to the
village, a group was moving a house. A few of the boys
jumped in and helped carry the structure. Later we learned
that by participating in this it showed the people of the
village we cared for them and was a loud witness for God.
December 2010, Nicholas Wiest led a team of 9 volunteers to Cambodia to install a water filtration system at one of the Orphanages for his project for his Eagle Scout Badge.
April 2-9, 2011
Interested in sponsoring a child? Contact TIC missions Committee