Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Update
At our meeting yesterday, we began by reading James 1:19-27:
19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. 21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. 22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do. 26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
This passage reminds us to put God's word into action as we perform our tasks. It also emphasizes caring for orphans and widows.
We are continuing to narrow down our search for an organization with which to partner and have been in contact with representatives from several organizations that have previously done work in Cambodia. We hope to decide on an organization soon and then select the specific region of Cambodia that we want to target.
In addition, our team discussed some tentative goals for our first trip to Cambodia in summer 2013. We would like to perhaps use this trip just to get to know a specific community in Cambodia before even setting up any type of well/filtration system there. Beyond that, we talked about possibly installing a water filtration system before we arrive in Cambodia (and assisting with it while on our trip) or establishing one filtration system while we are there as a test.
We will provide more details in the near future. Thanks once again for following our project!
19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. 21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. 22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do. 26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
This passage reminds us to put God's word into action as we perform our tasks. It also emphasizes caring for orphans and widows.
We are continuing to narrow down our search for an organization with which to partner and have been in contact with representatives from several organizations that have previously done work in Cambodia. We hope to decide on an organization soon and then select the specific region of Cambodia that we want to target.
In addition, our team discussed some tentative goals for our first trip to Cambodia in summer 2013. We would like to perhaps use this trip just to get to know a specific community in Cambodia before even setting up any type of well/filtration system there. Beyond that, we talked about possibly installing a water filtration system before we arrive in Cambodia (and assisting with it while on our trip) or establishing one filtration system while we are there as a test.
We will provide more details in the near future. Thanks once again for following our project!
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