Travel

We love to travel. Up until now our travel has been limited to work or pleasure. We are now adding LAMb activities to our travels! This blog will hopefully allow you to follow our adventures. Our thoughts, our views, dreams, and adventures. Follow along if you wish. If no one follows that's fine as well. It's just a place for us to remember . . .

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Humanitarian Needs


Dear Friends & Family,

As many of you know, we (Randy & Kim) are heading back to Kyrgyzstan for our second missions trip.   We leave April 6th and return on the 20th.


Last year’s trip was amazing and we can’t wait to return!  During our time there last year we were introduced to some of the different programs, people, and organizations that work with LAMb.  We spoke at a women’s conference, a men’s conference, couple’s fellowship.  We participated in the ‘swim’ with the disabled men, time in the mountains with the same group of men experiencing with them something they have never done,  shared dinner with abandoned/rescued seniors and even got to dance with them, held abandoned children at the baby hospital.  We gave away stuffed animals to the children being treated at the baby hospital, helped open the Dayspring Family Life Resource Center (alternative to an orphanage), and delivered food to a family that LAMb has helped rescue and restore.

It was a life changing trip in so many ways.  We once again realized that this world is MUCH bigger than the community we live in.  In so many ways we are all the same; same dreams, goals, struggles, etc.  But in places like Kyrgyzstan it’s just a bit more difficult; unstable government, limited resources available to families, the sick, and to the residents in general and a cold climate in the winter where coal and food can become scarce and expensive.

What do we hope to accomplish this year?  We hope to spend time with the seniors, cooking for them, and getting to know them better – reminding them that they are special and loved.  Spend time with the men in the disabled men’s home; fellowshipping with them and enjoying treats and entertainment (they love to entertain!).  We hope to spend time with the five little girls that are now in Dayspring and get to spoil them.  We hope to spend time in the baby orphanage/hospital and love on the abandoned babies.  There is a new orphanage that is reaching out for training for their staff, we hope to go and visit them and see how they need help to minister to the children they take in.  And finally, we hope to stop for the one in front of us that we see that may be hurting and need a little love and to see that God does love them through our actions. 
We are going to just go and show up and see what God has in store for us!

A few weeks ago we packed our humanitarian two bags.  They are FULL!  Praise God!  We have 100 stethoscopes, 10 dolls with custom clothes for the girls at Dayspring, tons of beanie babies and Webkinz, and lots of other medical supplies.  We have had people ask how they can help.  We need help with funds to take over with us.  The funds will be used to feed the seniors, take treats to the men’s home, provide food to a family in need, special ways we can spoil the girls at Dayspring.    We will help provide and fill a gap in an orphanage, home, anywhere if needed.  We just want to bless while we are there. 

If you feel led to help us, we will take pictures and show you how your donations are being used.  None of these funds will go to our travel expenses.  Those funds have already been covered.  It is to allow us to bless others in Central Asia on your behalf.

To give is easy!  Please visit LAMb International’s blog (http://lambinternational.blogspot.com/).  Take time to read about what LAMb is doing in Kyrgyzstan and what we will have the opportunity to do.  On the right side of their page is a button for US Donations (PayPal).  In the notes section and designate it for our trip.  We will have the funds waiting for us in Kyrgyzstan.  If you have any special requests for how the monies are used also note it there or let us know personally.  All donations are also tax deductible through LAMb International.

To follow our adventures and to read about our trip last year visit our blog (http://kag-travel.blogspot.com/).  We will keep it updated with our adventures from the time we leave to the time we return and beyond.
Finally, and most importantly, please keep us and the whole LAMb team in prayer.  While we are there for only two weeks, the other team members are there for a few months and some even longer.  Please pray for God’s covering and blessing in the work that they are and will be doing!  They all and we all LOVE doing Kingdom work!

Blessings,

Randy & Kim


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