Mission to Cambodia 2014
from Emily Patton, Nursing student

Today was a pretty relaxing day. We woke up early to check out of our rooms because we were leaving on a flight to Siem Reap and had to be checked out of our rooms by noon. We all took tuk tuks to church to celebrate the 22nd anniversary and the grand opening of the new facility for Phnom Penh Church of Christ! When we arrived, we saw the family from the service project had come to the service! It was so amazing to see them there, dressed up and ready to worship for the first time. They did a ceremonial ribbon cutting and everyone piled into the church, where traditional Khmer dancers did a beautiful dance as tribute. Cambodians will look for any reason to have a party which I think is so awesome! Afterwards, we hung out and went to lunch and waited for our bus driver to pick us up for the airport! After a short 40 minute flight, we we made it to Siem Reap. The hotel is beautiful and you can definitely tell it’s a smaller, more low-key city than Phnom Penh. It’s already pretty late now and we need to get to bed early because we are waking up early to watch the sunrise at Angkor Wat!