When it rains it pours

It is the wet season, which we quite enjoy. Being a hot country the rain is refreshing, even fun at times. But then yes, there are those storms that pelt for a few hours so heavy that the drains cannot keep up with the torrent. On days like this the streets flood, as do people's houses and shops. (Two of the shops on the right are raised, but the mechanic, with the bottles out the front, is flooded as is his house in behind.)

The photo shows our street about 40 m "down" the road from us. Our section of road and also our frontage is high enough not to flood - thankfully. Cambodians who can afford to build their houses up, or put concrete barriers across their frontage so the street does not drain into their house.

Mind you, when it rains like this, our school yard floods similarly. Our classroom doors have raised concrete steps to stop the water coming in. We all just move to higher ground and life goes on.

At least our street is now concrete, this time last year it was dirt.

Please continue to pray for our time here, it is such an awesome privilege to serve God in another culture, but at times can be very draining as well.. (excuse the pun on the word draining - lol)

God Bless

Fiona Brown

Creative Fun for a Challenging Purpose

Next week Hope School will be hosting FLAG WEEK. What is Flag Week, well it's a bit like Community School meets Summer Camp. By that I mean we will be having guest speakers at various times of the day to challenge the students about their faith.

I have made a banner for the event. It is printed on vinyl and is 2.4m long and 0.8m high. I constructed it life size in adobe photoshop and used vector paths to ensure good quality. (For the technically minded... yes my laptop did struggle severly, I had to close down unused processes and play lots of games of spider solitaire while I waited for it to render time and again.)

God is Good!

I love the opportunity to use my creative gifts for Hope School.

Please pray that this is a week of challenge for the students, a challenge to own their own faith and stand firm in it.

Fiona

Hope School Film wins two Ignite Awards

Following on from my previous posts......

Hope School recently entered the Sydney Anglican Media Ignite Amateur Short Film Festival in Sydney Australia with our film SORIDA – A Film of Hope. The film tells the testimony of the family of Sorida Sbong, one of the office administrators. The Festival award presentation was held last Saturday night.

Our film took out the Schools Category Award and the People’s Choice Award.

Thank you to all of those who voted for our film!

For our efforts we have won a data projector and some cash to put towards our own video camera. These should come across from Australia in the near future, as should our awards that you can see above.

The winning films can be seen on www.ignitefilmfest.com.

Thank you to everyone who participated in this event.

Fiona Brown