Comfort Zones are a little like floating out to sea on a block of ice - they invariably melt away and leave you to drown. They aren't much help to anyone else either.

Ruth marvels at the wonderful creativity of the Cambodian girls and we can give thanks to God for the added human value it gives the them, not only in their own eyes but in the eyes of their parents. These girls make a mean cake - to read full report and check out some of thier work click on the attached PDF

Its been an exciting couple of months for the team. More kids are now part of the ministy - many are attending school and Charia's visit to the US was very encouraging. - Click on the attached PDF to read the full report

Loneliness is part of the human condition that Jesus came to cure. It's much healthier to admit you are lonely and embrace the one who loves you most, than it is to hide the feelings under busyness and bitterness.

The hardest thing to learn about our faith is that we cannot buy salvation or negotiate the rules for Heaven. Since it is a hard lesson to learn, parents need to be careful not to go overboard with rewards to get their children to do what they aught to do without reward.

Its only when you see that fearing God leads to freedom from all fear that you'll realise just how much he loves us and how fearing him leads us to loving him in return.

People are generally resentful of the generousity of others unless they can find some way to justify the notion that they did something to deserve it.

No one on earth had more reasons to believe in the power of God than the Pharaoh of the Exodus. His unbelievable hardness of heart is a cautionary tale for us all.

There are around 40,000 prostitutues in Cambodia and most are children. Thankfully there are quite a number of groups operating to rescue these girls and give them a new start. This is our first newsletter from Ruth Larwill who with her Husband Murray is just starting up a group called Blooms.

In a world under the influence of spiritual entropy the power to gain the ascendency over destructive habits needs both determination and the power of God.

You have to earn the right to rebuke and critique the life of others and even when you have there should be no dumping the truck load.

Perhaps the most offensive dirty jokes are not about sex but about death. You have to be truly deluded to find anything funny about something so serious that the creator of life had to experience it to save us from its grasp.

Moving a dump further away from a residential area is usually good news unless the dump itself has residents who are now forced to find alternative forms of income or pay nearly a day's 'wages' to get to work.

It is almost immoral to look at a work of art without considering the work that has gone into it. The same goes for a good marriage.

People don't always become less controlling and determined to get their own way when they become Christians, often they simply find ways of appearing spiritual while they do it.