Hit me with your Best Shot!?!?

I can clearly remember the last time we sent a team to Cambodia. I said “Even though I would love to go to Cambodia, I could never do it because of the SHOTS!” Fast Forward to 2008, and WFC is forming a new team to go to Cambodia. God is speaking to my heart, telling me that I need to go. I decide to listen to His voice, instead of my fear, and I add my name to the list. And so begins the countdown to my date with sheer terror.

This is a fear that has been with me as long as I can remember. One of my earliest memories from Elementary School is a day where I was called to the nurse’s office to receive some vaccination nobody warned me that I was getting. I screamed and cried and ran away shouting, “I’m not supposed to get this, I’ve already had it!” Many years later, I even begged the nurses not to give me the shot that would keep me from bleeding to death after giving birth to my son, but they insisted I get it. Some people say to me “How can you be afraid, you are a nurse?” That is true, I do not fear the needle, and I have given countless thousands to other people. But when it is my flesh that is being pierced, all rational thought is completely discarded. I’m very glad that the airline tickets were bought early, because that meant I could not back out. So, after putting it off, I finally called to schedule our appointment. Of course, the doctor said I could come in that week, but my heart was definitely not ready for it yet! I chose a day closer to the end of the month.

All too quickly, that day arrived. Even though I knew a small army of people was praying for me, my stomach had still been in knots for several days before, and from the moment I awoke, all I wanted to do was cry. I got into my husband’s car, and bawled like a baby. It didn’t help my nerves any that traffic was so bad, we were 15 minutes late for our appointment. I didn’t want to go, but I didn’t want to be late either! I made it very clear to the doctor and nurses how terrified I was about the whole thing. So the time came for us to decide, with the doctor’s direction, what vaccines we were going to get. The count just kept getting higher and higher. Polio (Can’t I get the sugar cube?) Tetanus (The one that hurts!) Typhoid, and two Hepatitis (A and B). And then the even better news, Hepatitis requires 2 more boosters later, and I need to get MMR(Measles, Mumps, Ruebella) too! Finally, it comes down to the moment of truth. I turn on my iPod, listening to one of my favorite Newsboys tunes, and bury my head in my husband’s chest, crying like a baby again. 1 down, 2 down, 3 down, time to switch arms. Hepatitis B (of course, one that I need to get more of) burns. Now I am chanting to myself “Only one more, only one more” Then, it is over! Tony’s turn. He sails through like an old pro, and takes his seat next to me. Suddenly he’s making his way back to the examining table to lie down. He learned the hard way the importance of having breakfast before having 5 shots! Good thing the nurses brought some snacks in for me.

Although I know I have to go back again in a month, I do not think I will be nearly as frightened as I was the first time.

~Sue Kaskoun

Premier Jewelry Party!

Please come to this awesome opportunity to support and raise funds for Cambodia Missions Trip Team!

Hosted By:
Ruth Feiler & Missions Team

Location:
Ruth Feiler's Home1827 Fox Run Terrace, Warrington, PA 18976

When:
Sunday, November 2, 12:00PM to 3:00PM

Phone:
215-491-9433

Ruth has been hosting parties & selling Premier Jewelry for many years and has made an extremely generous contribution to our Team. The team members going to Cambodia will earn 40% of all sales!

Please come and check out the jewelry, make a contribution to the team, and go home with something for yourself or someone on your Christmas Shopping List!

The show will be an Open House set up to browse and place an order and will run from 12-3 p.m. that afternoon, so stop by on your way home from church! Ruth will also be taking orders for an additional two weeks following open house, so you can take a catalog with you.

MEN Welcome!! We can help you pick out something special for that specialsomeone!!!

QUESTIONS???? contact: Patti Lyons 215- 343 2977 email Pattialyons@gmail.com, or see any Cambodia Team member

Showing Some Support

I support my Mom Mom & Pop Pop!

Ethan Fink in his Cambodian print tee shirt, well and he had to americanize it a bit with the baseball cap and lollipop hanging out of his mouth. :)

Thanks!!!!

Just want to send out a big shout out of THANKS!!! :
Missy Staude for your hard work and perseverence in getting our airline tickets!!
Doug Simon who has committed to helping us in keeping track our finances!
Melissa Fink who put this blog together for us!
Our church family,friends ,family and co- workers who give us words of
encouragement ,support, and are praying for us...even the smallest gesture of a
any of these is truly appreciated!
So....THANK YOU!!!! Team Seven

Welcome !!!

We hope you will check out our site frequently and be a part of our journey as we share our joys,concerns,progress,prayer requests,etc....!!! We are all so excited to be going, and thankful to be given this opportunity to serve in Cambodia for two weeks in January.I f we are to be honest along with the decision to go, comes nervousness,doubts,fears, and sacrifices.This we are finding is all part of the journey !!! It draws us closer to God as we give over these concerns to Him and also it has helped strengthen us as a team. We have had many opportunities to praise as we have seen God working. He has surprised us in big ways and in small quiet ways....He is awesome!!!

We have been meeting regularly praying...planning..preparing..training ..learning about cross culture missions..reading.. and we have all had our own assignments.We have talked to Joel Stewart, who we will be working with in Cambodia ,many times. We are working on getting Joel live via skype on the big screen some Sunday morning soon... so stay tuned!!!

Joel told us last we talked that he thinks he has come up with a construction project for us.....many of us are very excited about this. We have a team that has a wide variety of all different types of skills so it will be exciting to see the Lord work and use us.

Last, but certainly not least, we really, really need prayer support from all of you! We have a few people going who have health concerns to to deal with .We want to serve faithfully .We may be the ones going but it is our desire for all of you to be a part of of the sending out.We are being sent to encourage Joel and the Church of Changed Hearts in Preah Vihear just as the churches of the New Testament sent people out (on foot!!) to encourage Paul and other missionaries! I'm glad we get to fly although it is a looooooong flight ..about 23hrs !!

Please pray and visit this blog often. We will hopefully soon have an update on our Chick fil a fundraiser, thanks to all.... it was fun!!! We will have all the other members of the team share on this blog, their own ups and downs as we move along in this process and also as we are in Cambodia!!!!

Thanks Again.....Love Patti Lyons