We're here!

What a different world that it is over here.
There are a few things that I am learning to cherish that are the same no matter where you are... a child's laugh will always be the same, they will always have the most precious smile... the kids make this brokenness livable.  I wouldn't be able to wake up every single day to see sex-trafficing take place right before my eyes if I couldn't experience this pure joy that these kids give out.
I've fallen in love with this community.  I might just come home with about 20 kids because I don't know how I am ever going to say good-bye to them. 
God is doing such crazy things in the midst to all of this poverty and hurt.  Until this trip I have never seen homes under water that people live in, I've never experienced so many children begging on the streets for money, I've never done a bible study/kids club in an old brothel where there is still a room that shows where young girls were tied down in order for people to come in and have sex with them.  This trip is showing me so much about unconditional love because that is what I'm seeing from these kids who are being so hurt physically and emotionally. 
Continue to pray for our team as we have to experience seeing these men with these beautiful women and children.  Pray that we are able to be fast workers as we are fixing up the most amazing boys center, continue to pray against satan's attacks as he is trying to work in our minds as much as God is showing us how great He is. 
Your prayers mean everything to us. 
xo Kristen Hoffmeyer

Some troubles

so, due to weather we have missed a few flights.  we know god is with us and he will get us to cambodia when it is time.  nothing is figured out so far but we will keep everyone updated.

jacob hart

19 Days!!

I cannot believe that this adventure is going to start in only 19 short days.
I cannot believe that I am about to travel thousands of miles to a country that I know so little about.
I cannot believe that I have raised every single dollar that I needed.
But... that is where God continues to tell me, "This is not something of your own doing, this is something that I have had set out and planned for you".  This is such comfort to my heart, knowing that this trip wouldn't have come together without God strategic planning. As the number of days until I depart continues to get smaller, I love the passages that God is having me read in order to get ready for this.  Something that I read today was exactly the comfort that I needed...
Romans 9:17 says, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth".  As many times as I have read over this verse it has never hit me like it has today.  It is such a comfort & an honor to know that Our God has raised each of us up for such a specific purpose, for such a specific plan... all to bring glory to His name.  & that is why we're called to GO out and share who Our God is.  This experience will be so much greater then I can even imagine but I know that God is working through every single detail, which is the greatest comfort of all.

I thank each of  you so much for the prayers that you are constantly saying for myself & our team that's going out.
I will continue to update this while I am over in Cambodia & am so excited to share this experience with you.

In Him,
Kristen