Cambodia Mission

For the last several years, Cambodia has been in the media spotlight as host to one of our world’s fastest growing arenas for human trafficking. Children as young as five and six years old are sold for sex, by strangers and even by their own families.

Since the end of the tragic civil war 30 years ago, Cambodia has been populated by people who lost everything in the war.  No one in this country was untouched by the horrific demoralization of the Communist regime. Because of the great hardship and poverty they have endured, people in Cambodia have hardened their hearts instead of reaching out for the God who loves them. They have turned to the gods of money, lust, and mere survival.



In America, we are daily becoming more aware of this problem of human trafficking. In Cambodia this summer, you can be part of the solution. We will leave the rescue and aftercare of the traumatized victims to the professionals who are trained to do their jobs; you will be serving these existing hard-working organizations by helping to stop the problem before it even begins in the life of another young child.

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Your team will be doing prevention work among the uneducated populations who have no idea of the realities and horrors of the sex-for-sale business. You will be going deep in relationship will the local people as you live among them. You will have an opportunity to speak the words of Truth that might one day bring this entire nation to Christ.
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The French made Cambodia a protectorate in 1863, incorporating it with Vietnam and Laos in their colony of Indochina.

Cambodia gained independence from France in 1953.

95% of Khmers (People of Cambodia) are Buddhist.

Although the riel is the official currency, both dollars and baht are readily accepted, particularly in areas with high numbers of tourists.

During a traditional Cambodian wedding, the groom and bride are tied at the wrists to each other with a red color thread.

Cambodia is a mostly flat and forested land.

The population is 13,329,000. 

Cambodia is home to the single largest religious structure in the world, the Angkor Wat.

Cambodia borders Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos.

The Tonle Sap, the only river in the world that reverses its flow annually, is in Cambodia.

The capital is Phnom Penh.