Few things both break your heart and enliven your spirit at the same moment.  Spending a day working the nutritional feeding truck in the villages outside of Phnom Penh will do just that.  Tears came to my eyes as I watched Whitney serving a small piece of bread and a cup of nutritional milk to you children.  The look in their eyes and the thank you on their lips reveal that they are appreciative of this simple meal.  After the children are fed, their mothers will gather around the pump that was put in the village by Partners in Progress and they will continue to the next village. 

We began this day at TNT (Thom Nop Thom) where the orphanage has been built.  You'll notice the picture of "baby Sam", he and all the children at the orphanage got bicycles this week.  They are very excited about them.  Sam and Mary Carpenter (Alabama) bought the bicycles.  They also privately fund the orphanage, though Sam would not want me saying that out loud.

 Everyone in the villages grow rice in small rice patties just as you would imagine from what you've seen in documentaries on television.  It is a very poor and otherwise fairly desolate area.  It is wonderful to see the Gospel touching these lives.