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    Pancake Update #3

    By DnA | May 13, 2008

    C’e Acqua Calda! 

    2000 guests and Cambodia awareness.

     When I was reviewing my Italian recently, one of the first phrases listed under the topic “Hotels” is “Non c’e acqua calda” meaning “There is no hot water.” (This is followed immediately by “There is no heat,” and then, “This room is dirty.” Doesn’t do much to promote Italian tourism, does it?)

    Anyway, it is no longer true at Bulstrode (as it has been ever since we arrived) that there is no hot water. Hurray! What a line formed up for the first hot showers in months! We felt like we should let others go first since we had only been here 6 weeks. Other WECcers had spent the entire winter without hot water, and we never heard one of them even hint at a complaint!

    On the pancake front: we have been researching on line and reading through a catalog we picked up at a Tesco store the other day for little camp cooking stoves. We are not sure how well they work, how long the little gas cartridge could be expected to last or where to get refills when ours runs out. We are just pondering all these things in our hearts, or maybe a little further down. We’ll be in touch.

    Here at Bulstrode we just finished the big May Day celebration. We had about 2000 guests for a day of speakers like Ronaldo Lidorio and information for those who are interested in looking into missions. There was a gigantic tent (they call it a marquee here) out back just below our window, and from the loudspeakers we could hear the music from all the groups that used it over the weekend. (We shared the tent with a local church before our day arrived.) Several exciting outcomes: over a hundred came forward to respond to a call to missions; we got to visit with a good friend who is a Regional Director in West Africa and catch up on prayer needs there; and there were hundreds of fabulous homemade cookies left over which turned up at coffee break the next morning.Thank the Lord for all of these.

    On the Operation World front we two are currently compiling the research done over the last 5 years on Cambodia into one well organized folder for a first draft. We find ourselves drawn to prayer as we work. Cambodia is the pedophilia capital of the world, and there are multiplied thousands of children sold into the sex trade there. In the late 1970s, the despot Pol Pot killed almost a quarter of the country’s population–including all those who were educated or even literate. After he was deposed, the country had no judges or teachers or engineers or even medical personnel left. Poverty and civil wars further destroyed the nation. Now the Cambodians are trying to rebuild, but their leaders are corrupt, and help seldom finds its way all the way to the people who need it most.

    Two million people depend on the fish from the Mekong River for their livelihood, but the Mekong flows through China and Laos and Thailand before it gets to Cambodia, and these other nations have begun to build scores of dams which are destroying the fisheries in Cambodia. Other peasants are showing up to work their rice fields only to find that there is barbed wire fencing around them and soldiers are standing guard. Rich politicians or army brass have stolen their land in the corrupt courts and left them without any way to survive. Please take time to pray with us for this beleaguered nation.

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    One Response to “Pancake Update #3”

    1. Sarah Says:
      May 14th, 2008 at 7:41 am

      Thanks for the laugh. I can now demand hot water in Italian…: ) Glad you have hot water! Now if we could just get you some hot pancakes! : )

      I will add my prayers for the Cambodian people and their land. Thank you for the update.

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