CMDA | Cambodia

When: February 5 - 20, 2010

Where: Cambodia

Who: Primary Medicine & Dentistry, Nurses, with limited Logistics (non-medical helpers); We will limit this team to 12 persons.

Status: Trip is Closed

Special Travel Announcement: All participants must travel to/from Cambodia as a group. No deviations in travel will be allowed without prior approval from GHO Director.

Project Fee: $1,750 plus international airfare (subject to change)

Team Leader: Mike O'Callaghan, DDS

CME/CDE: 7 hours will be offered on this trip. Click here for more details.

To read Dr. O'Callaghan's biography, Click Here.

Trip Details: This is GHO's first trip to Cambodia. God has blessed us with excellent and experienced national partners. We will be working alongside Pastors Sokoin Prey and Barnabas Mam. They are leaders of the Institute of Church Planting - Cambodia. This fruitful ministry in the last decade has planted over 200 evangelical churches largely in the outlying rural provinces of Cambodia. We also will be partnering with Dr. Socheat Ros, a physician and leader of the Cambodian Healthcare Christian Fellowship.

The GHO Team will be providing primary medical and dental care in two outlying provinces, Kampong Thom, about 4 hours drive north of Phnom Penh and in Kampong Speu, 1 1/2 hours drive south of Phnom Penh.

We will set up clinic for two days each in five different churches, ranging from two small house churches and three churches with dedicated buildings. We will be working with a team of local pastors of newly planted churches at each site. Medical, dental, and other pre-professional students who are involved with Dr. Ros' Cambodian Healthcare Christian Fellowship will serve as our interpreters. We will work with one Cambodian physician and dentist on the trip.

This trip will be demanding professionally and richly rewarding spiritually. The passion and fervor of the national pastors is edifying and contagious. After centuries of cultural domination of the Buddhist religion, God has been blowing the wind of His Spirit through the nation of Cambodia. The church is alive and growing. God has blessed Cambodia with a cadre of dedicated church planters and it will be our joy and privilege of coming alongside these consecrated men and women and assist them in growing the Church for the glory of God!

Our accommodations will range from very good to comfortable. We also will be well fed and watered! We will enjoy a tour of Sambor Prei Kuk, a 6th century Hindu temple complex in the middle of the trip and enjoy a shopping spree in Phnom Penh's famous Russian Market and tour the Toul Sleng Genocide Museum before heading home.

Please prayerfully consider joining this trip and serve the least, the last and the lost!

Country Information: Cambodia is a nation of about 13 million people in Southeast Asia. It is located in the "10-40" window. Over 90% of the population and the majority of those we will serve on this mission trip are Khmer people, descendants of teh Angkor Empire that extended over much of Southeast Asia and reached its zenith between the 10th and 13th centuries.

The Khmer are a "least reached" people group. Only about 0.5% of the population of Cambodia is considered to be evangelical Christian. About 95% of the populatin is Buddist with another 4% claiming Muslim faith.

In 1969, Cambodia suffered bombings by the U.S. and invasions by the Vietnamese; events that threw the country into turmoil. In addition, a civil war broke out between the Camodian government and Communist rebels known as the Khmer Rouge. Possibly two million Cambodians died between 1975 and 1979 while the Khmer Rouge ruled in a reign of terror. After years of factional fighting and instability, Cambodia held national elections in 2003.

Since the days of Pol Pot and the Killing Fields, Cambodia has been struggling to heal its land. The areas we will be ministering in are impoverished, rural areas where rice paddies flourish during the rainy season. We will experience Cambodia during the dry season when cooler temperatures and fewer mosquitos prevail.

We will stay in relatively modern hotels and guest houses with air condition all but two of the nights (where we will have fans in the rooms). Food will be largely Cambodian cuisine, nutritious and tasty.

Vaccination Information: Wondering what immunizations you’ll need for the mission trip? Please refer to the Centers for Disease Control website.

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