Rhonda addressing partners at Calvary Fellowship, Carthage, MO

Rhonda addressing partners at Calvary Fellowship, Carthage, MO

I find myself in the States because it is once again time for the annual update to our partners. Our partners are wonderful faithful folk who walk along side us in ministry in Cambodia even though most of them will never visit the country in person.

This trip has kinda not turned out like I expected.

Scheduling times and dates to share with partners has always been pretty easy. But this year has proven to be quite the challenge because of a variety of reasons. In some cases, it is simply the case of “not going to work out.” But in other instances, even the weather has interferred.

I landed in DFW and thought that the balmy weather on the evening of May 1st was much like what I had left in Cambodia. But then by the next day, storms and tornadoes moved in. “Hmmmm,” I thought, “It seems that the monsoon season has followed me to the US.”

This became even more apparent when I moved from the DFW area to Tulsa and yes…it was nice when I got there but my the next morning, it was stormy and rainy.

Then I move on to Carthage and you guessed it…STORMS. So much in fact that it was highly questionable if I would even speak at the first church because they had their power knocked out late Saturday afternoon. However, by Sunday AM service it was fine.

The rain and storms continued on and off for the better part of two weeks. In the course of that time, it was time to go on to Stillwater, OK. It was a beautiful day when I left Missouri with my college-bound daughter, Kati. But by the time we reached Tulsa…storms. BAD STORMS such that Kati, a new driver, was quite stressed out on the road.

I got Kati settled the next week at college and I have journeyed on to Kentucky where I am staying in Benton with the Bailey family. It seems that I have shaken those storms lose or…maybe they just haven’t found me yet.

Should a reader of this blog be interested, I would love to share my upcoming dates:

June 7th…Heritage Bible Church, Possom Trot, KY
June 10th…First Baptist Church, Hughes, Arkansas
June 11th-12…Home of Ben and Christina Chronister Washington, DC
June 14th…Immanuel Baptist, Butler, MO
June 21st…Bykota Church, Carthage, MO
July 12th…Home of Greg and Aleta Ford, Tulsa, OK

Other dates and small groups as yet pending….

Please pray for my family as they are trying to manage things alone without me in Cambodia and they are having to manage without Kati as well since she is gone to college.

Breathing in, Breathing out,
Rhonda