Why are you going to Poipet?

The background to the project is that Brighton Road Baptist Church has a long history of being involved in mission. Over the years this has varied from:

• Supporting individuals in long term mission work.
• Supporting individuals and short term mission projects.
• Sending out missionaries from our own congregation.
• Participating in BMS World Mission Action Teams.
• Supporting the work of several mission agencies in doaster relief situations – e.g. Tearfund and BMS World Mission.
• Facilitating youth mission trips.

Tearfund and Cambodia
Rather than plan a project from scratch we decided to work with an existing partner organisation where a real need had already been identified.  In 2010 we started to engage with Tearfund on an initial project in Cambodia. We hope this will lead to a longer term relationship with Tearfund and their Cambodian partner CHO.  Tearfund’s approach to mission work is to work alongside carefully selected local partners.

We expect to be away from the UK for about 10 days during the last two weeks of October 2011. Part of the time will be spent seeing the work of CHO’s various projects and the second half of the trip will give us an opportunity to take part in some of those projects.