Cambodia

Discover Cambodia’s beauty and tragic past through stories of resilience and hope, painting a picture of a nation’s indomitable spirit and the journey towards healing.

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29 June 2021

Near Death Experience in the Killing Fields

I was very afraid and knew that if I didn’t get out of there, I would die. We had seen them cut the necks of about 25 people.

05 September 2013

Som – Kind of Wonderful

The following is the rest of the story about Som, a paralyzed woman Megan Kennedy met in Cambodia. Read the first part here. Each day this month whe…

03 September 2013

A Woman Named Som

Megan Kennedy shares this touching story from Cambodia. On a small plot of land just outside the city of Kampong Cham, the people of "42 village&quot…

05 September 2011

Fantastic Cambodia

My life moves too fast and is often too serious. I go to these places where tragedy is rampant. It’s AIDS and orphans in Swaziland, earthquake victims in Hai…

16 July 2011

God shows up in the killing fields

Renee Padgett, a racer from my son’s team wrote me this morning in response to my post about the Cambodian holocaust. In it I described a documentary that …

14 July 2011

The killers of Cambodia talk

The Khmer Rouge killed two million people. And then the killers melted into the Cambodian countryside, never brought to justice. And they’re alive today – li…

19 June 2011

Join me on a vision trip to Cambodia

Somaly Mam was nine when she sold into a brothel in Phnom Penh. Her life became a nightmare, but eventually she got out. So many girls never do. Something …

01 October 2008

Cambodia & its killing fields resurrected

Karen and I are at an airport lounge in Seoul and headed to Cambodia today to debrief our World Race team. Feeling scuzzy after 24 hours en route so fa…

25 October 2007

Cambodian orphans just wrecked me today

The cry of a little orphan stopped me in my tracks this morning and put my busy life in perspective. I thought about it the whole time I was out jogging. He…

05 October 2007

My Cambodian translator escapes the killing fields

Today my son, daughter and parents are all either in or near Cambodia, a country whose fate has intersected that of my family for years (see my last two blog…

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Spiritual Formation Posts

Cambodia

ROOT

Near Death Experience in the Killing Fields

Som – Kind of Wonderful

A Woman Named Som

Fantastic Cambodia

God shows up in the killing fields

The killers of Cambodia talk

Join me on a vision trip to Cambodia

Cambodia & its killing fields resurrected

Cambodian orphans just wrecked me today

My Cambodian translator escapes the killing fields

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