I have a chance to Change the World!!
July 2011, there will be a team of 12 young adults traveling to Cambodia to participate in a rally for youth from all over Cambodia. We’ll spend 10 days preaching, leading workshops and bible studies at the Youth Rally, building a playground for the rural children, and leading VBS alongside Cambodian young adults, and building one another up in love in order to begin addressing the many concerns heavy on the hearts of our brothers and sisters in Cambodia.
Our time in Cambodia and over the next year will prepare us for a Global Youth Rally in Ohio. The Global Youth Rally will involve 10 or so Youth and Young Adults from United Methodist Conferences in SouthEast Asia, Russia, The Congo, and Mexico all coming to Ohio!
Our team needs your help! We need a network of people actively praying for this mission (in Cambodia and in the other conferences) over the next 18 months. We are hoping that you will join us in praying for the leadership and success of this trip and our mission, the people who will join our team, and the money we need to lead the mission.
CAMBODIA
Christianity only represents 5% of the population while Buddhism represents the other 95%. This is an area that Christ is not well known, and this will be an opportunity for me and the team I will be going with to spread the good news of Christ. We will also be building playgrounds at schools, in hopes that more children will find school exciting. Cambodia is currently the largest country in the sex trade. Young girls and boys are either forced or choose to be involved in the sex trade because they have no money. School tends to be an afterthought for them and the playgrounds become a bridge to bringing the children into schools and away from the sex trade. We will also be holding VBS for the children in Cambodia, to show them love, and to give them hope. The more they are loved, the less chance for them to willingly enter the sex trade.
As the team from Ohio, we have a chance to come alongside the Youth and Young Adults who are leaders in their churches in Cambodia. The Church in Cambodia is new and this is our opportunity to give them resources to reach their communities.
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his is the mission trip of a lifetime for me and I need your help. I need to raise over $3000.00 by June 2011. I am hoping and praying you find it in your heart to donate financially towards my overall expenses and pray for safety and God's work on this trip. Through your kind generosity, you will be helping individuals in Cambodia meet Christ; you will be helping me make this mission opportunity a reality.
Next Steps:
1. Email me [a-smithers@onu.edu] if you are willing to pray for me and the team and if you would like to receive updates about Cambodia 2011.
2. Click the Donate button at the top right hand corner of the blog to help financially. This is a safe and secure way to donate through PayPal. All credit cards are accepted.
3. Send check to Allyssa Smithers, 402 West College Ave, Unit 3071, Ada, Ohio 45810.
Thank you so much, in advance, for you support in my journey to Change the World.
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