Newsletter August 1 2009

In 1999 I went to India on my first mission trip.  I helped to build brick bunkhouses for orphan boys.  The trip was such a blessing and great fun that I went to Mexico in 2000, 01 & 03 and helped to build, then remodel a church in Maneadero.  After the 2004 Tsunami I went to So.India and Thailand to assist in the relief work.  I came home wanting to be able to provide construction services anywhere at anytime.  I have been blessed with many skills and talents in the construction trades, so in 2005 I founded C.R.E.W. "Construction Resources and Ecology to the World".  We are a 501(c) 3 corporation dedicated to providing construction services, potable water and sanitary systems to the disadvantaged and those suffering from disaster.  Read more.
 

 In 2007 I traveled to Cambodia with COTR to assist in rebuilding this house. The house was formerly a "karaoke crack house".  Apparently Cambodian punks like to get tweaked and sing karaoke, not that karaoke was good to start with.  Either the crack or the karaoke filled the house with bad spirits and no one would live in it.  The house is at the Transformation Center Safe House compound in Batnambang; run by Dr.Setan Lee, founder of TransformAsia, where women and girls rescued from the sex trade are given a safe place to live.   Here they have daily prayer and bible training along with training in vocational skills that will enable them to provide for themselves working with computers, as a beautician, or as a seamstress.  We pretty much tore it down and rebuilt it using traditional Cambodian materials and techniques.  Meaning, Mahogany lumber and local laborers.  Check out the whole story & pictures Read more.


In October I will be going back to Cambodia with COTR.  Some of our group will be facilitating a Leadership conference, others will be helping out at the David Center Orphanage , and myself and a few others will be building a kitchen and dining facility at the Transformation Center Safe House compound.  Since our last visit the house has filled to capacity.  The women do not have any covered facilities for cooking or eating.  Setan has asked us to build this structure.  You can be part of this much needed project by donating funds.  My goal is $10,000 for this project.  Your gift of any size would go along way to help these women.  Check out our website at www.hisworkforce.org to donate.  We are now offering a C.R.E.W. branded credit card from Capitol One.  $25 is donated by Capitol One on your first purchase and 1% there after.  And, please keep us and this project in your thoughts and prayers.  Thank you.