Life in Cambodia

Luke and Sokha share stories of church planting and student outreach in Cambodia.

Author: Luke Smith

  • Operation World Prayercast: Cambodia

    Operation World now has a website with a prayer guide for each nation and a short prayercast video. Here is the one for Cambodia:

  • Another Small Step

    It is hard to believe that I have already been in Cambodia for 13 months now. I guess I can start counting in years now. Life is fairly hectic with taking the fourth language class at the Institute of Foreign Languages and going down to the village every other weekend. Plans are coming together well…

  • And the Rain Came…

    … and it kept on coming. It is the rainy season here, so it is not shocking that it was raining. However, it rained almost all day for several days last week, and the flooding was as bad as I have seen in the year that I have been here. The Cambodia Daily reported that…

  • A View from the Village

    bok bok bok… or cluck cluck cluck… take your pick on how you want to write out the noise a chicken makes. It is a noise that I have heard plenty of in my life, but recently I have realized that it is not a very soothing sound to try to fall asleep to. My…

  • Things Along the Road… Traffic Accidents

    A few months ago, my roommate made a traffic video to give a taste of how the streets are here in Phnom Penh. In someways, I have become more accustomed to the traffic patterns here. But having seen a couple of semi-trailer and moto collisions over the past few weeks, I have been reminded again…

  • Things that make you go hmm… An Unwelcome Visitor

    Living in a foreign land, I have tried to be friendly. But some guests just aren’t welcome. Such was the case with this rather large centipede that we found crawling across our living room floor. It seems like when it rains that lots of little, and sometimes not so little, crawling things try to seek…

  • Westminster Seminary California Interviews Team Leader Lloyd Kim

    Dr. R. Scott Clark of Westminster Seminary California recently interviewed our Team Leader Lloyd Kim on Office Hours.  >> Listen Now

  • Into the Fog

    Fog may make for a nice picture as it engulfs the Golden Gate Bridge, but I have never heard anyone say that they like to drive in the fog. However, five days a week, I get up from bed and go into the fog. The fog is not along the road, and I don’t recall…

  • Things Along the Road… Money Changers

    Well, it my be hard to top the shock value of the first post in this series: Things Along the Road… Fried Crickets, but most of life can be rather mundane. So this post along with many others may not be all that exciting, but they will continue to give a brief snapshot of life…

  • To Kill a Mosquito

    The rainy season has begun here and with it has come a welcomed break from the heat. But on the downside comes driving in the rain often and a great increase in the mosquito population. Mosquitoes must have water to lay their eggs in to complete their life cycle, and the rainy season offers an…