Category: Colorado
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Bundle of Joy
This Christmas Sdam and I welcomed the best gift we could have been given. We are proud to introduce you to the newest member of our family, Skyler Soun Soy 12.3.2025
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Community and Thanksgiving
It is already November. Just one more month till baby joins us! I have had a busy fall at EMI; preparing for our November issue of Inside EMI which is our CEO and annual reporting edition, with lots of coordination across EMI to gather data and prepare graphics. We also had our new fellow join…
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An announcement…
Sdam and I continue to settle into life in Colorado. We feel blessed by the church community we have at Harvest Downtown and the friendships both new and old that we are forming there. We have joined the Global Impact Team there, to help Harvest care for all the missionaries sent through the church. It’s…
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A New Home
We’ve moved! This month Sdam and I officially moved to Colorado Springs. I am settling into a new routine of in-person office work and enjoying being with the team. In January, I officially transferred to the EMI Global office and traveled to the Springs to meet with my supervisor and set direction for the coming…
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Curve Ball
We have been thrown another curve ball. Sdam had his long-awaited citizenship interview last week. Up until this point, and even after leaving his interview, we had good reason to believe he would soon be a citizen and we would soon be returning to Cambodia. But a few hours after returning home, we received a…
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June Update
Only 6 more months to go before I board an airplane headed for Phnom Penh. While I contemplate the idea of finishing my time here in Colorado Springs well, I have begun focusing my time on the relationships and community I have built here over the last two years. School Out-reach and VBS Over the…
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October Update
It is my pleasure to be able to bring to you exciting updates from the EMI Southeast Asia office launch. The biggest announcement is that EMI leadership has officially named Cambodia as the country. From now on our office will be known as EMI Cambodia. EMI has also named Chad Gamble as the future office…
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August Update
It was a whirl-wind summer. We have officially said good-bye to the summer interns, and welcomed in the fall. It was hard to bid farewell but I am looking forward to the fall. The most exciting news for the end of this summer is the opportunity I had to be a part of a Term 3…
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June Update
Summer is officially here. With it came an new group of interns. Here at EMI, each new group of interns begin their time with us by attending a week-long orientation. This summer I had the privilege of joining the team that teaches “crossing cultures.” As each intern prepares for their project trip, many who are…
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I love my job
I’ve had a job in my field of study that I hated. I’ve had too many jobs with not enough work or mindless busy work. I’ve had a job that was 24/7 and unbelievably stressful. I’ve had a job that had nothing to do with anything I’ve studied. I’ve had a job where I was intimidated…