The Killing Fields Movie Night – Take 2

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We are going to screen ‘The Killing Fields’ movie again as we continue to raise support for our mission work in Cambodia. It’s a confronting but important look into Cambodia’s tragic history. The details are as follows;

7:00pm Saturday 20th June 2015 at All Saints Anglican Church Petersham – 325 Stanmore Road, Petersham. The cost is $25 which includes supper. Tickets available at the door. Please RSVP to let us know you are coming by sending an email to our gmail account – the9blairs.

Below is a trailer for the movie…

Want a taste of Cambodia?

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Cultural Night.003We might not be able to take you with us to Cambodia but we can sure try to bring Cambodia to you!

Cambodia – It’s the heat and the humidity, the crazy traffic with it’s constant beeping of horns. It’s the whiff of roasting meat mixed with the smell of garbage as you whiz along in a tuk tuk. It’s trying to navigate through a maze of market stalls swarming with flies around slabs of meat trying not to step on escaping crabs and tarantulas as you search for that welcome array of woodwork, jewellery, clothes and eateries.

We’d would love to introduce you to a night experiencing life in Cambodia. Ok…forget the heat, the crazy traffic, swarming flies, and the tarantulas, but the entry price does include a 3 course Cambodian meal and activities such as sport, woodworking and building a Cambodian hut. There’ll also be authentic Cambodian market stall items for you to buy. During the night we’ll also be sharing our plans for mission in Cambodia. We hope you can join us.

 

Killing Fields Movie Night

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The Killing Fields is an Academy Award winning film starring Sam Waterston, Haing Ngor and John Malkovich (with a cameo role by Australia’s Graham Kennedy). It tells the true story of two journalists reporting on the civil war in Cambodia in the 1970’s who are caught up in the harrowing events surrounding the reign of the Khmer Rouge.

We’re holding a special screening of this movie to help raise support for our missionary work in Cambodia. We’ll give a short presentation during the night about our hopes for bringing the light of the gospel to the people of Cambodia. The details are as follows;

7pm Saturday 28th March
St Thomas’ Anglican Church Hall 
McLaren Street, North Sydney

Cost $25 per person
(includes supper)

Please note that the movie is rated ‘M’ and has coarse language, violence and some gory scenes so it is not suitable for children under 15. For the movie preview please click here. Please invite your Christian friends along. To purchase your tickets please click here. All profits go towards the Blairs mission work in Cambodia.

When we visited Cambodia on 2013, we went to one of the infamous killing fields just outside of Phnom Penh. You can read about our visit here.

Cruise for Cambodia

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To continue raising awareness and support for our mission work in Cambodia we’re organising an evening dinner cruise on Sydney Harbour on Saturday 21st February 2015. The cruise departs from the Man ‘O’ War steps at Sydney Opera House at 6:30pm and returns there at 10:30pm. The cost is $35pp and includes a banquet dinner (60% of the cost goes directly to supporting us going to Cambodia). There’ll be a short presentation about our mission plans during the cruise. To reserve your place send us an email to the9blairs@gmail.com.

Transition Training

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We have just returned from a 10 day training course in Melbourne with Missions Interlink. The aim of the course was to prepare us to transition well into the Cambodian culture that we hope to enter in the near future. The first rule of transition training is not to tell anyone what happens at transition training. So we can’t tell you what happened there except to say that we learnt a lot about ourselves and the challenges ahead of us doing missionary work in Cambodia. We meet some great people and had lots of fun there too!

Hike for Cambodia

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Hike for Cambodia Add (no details).002-001We hope you’re having a great Christmas. We’ve got a number of events planned for the new year to help raise support for our missionary work in Cambodia. Our first event is a hike in the Royal National Park. Gather a group of friends and family to sponsor your hike on the coast track from Bundeena to Otford and help us get to Cambodia. Australia Day Monday 26th January 2015.  Lunch will be provided at Wattamolla Beach at a cost of $5. To find out more information, to register or to sponsor a hiker please contact Daniel Holland on 0428 596 443 or email to dhh1983@gmail.com.

Thank you!

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We are very pleased to report that lots of people come to our bush dance. It was a great night of music and dancing, catching up with old friends, meeting new friends and sharing our plans for mission in Cambodia. Below is a short video of some of the action.

During the night we raised $3000 in one off donations and $6000 in regular annual support. Thank you to those who came and gave so generously. It’s such a blessing to have our brothers and sisters in Christ partnering with us. If you’d still like to support us financially then please click here. We’re planning to hold another fundraising event soon so stay tuned for more details.

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Bush Dance for Cambodia

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We are putting on a bush dance next month to help us get to Cambodia. If you would like to have some fun and hear about our plans for mission then please join us and bring a friend. The Bush dance is at 5:30pm on Saturday 11th October at All Saints Church Hall, 325 Stanmore Road Petersham. More details below. Hope to see you there!

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We’re going back to Cambodia!

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blair photo (6 of 17)It’s been a long time since we last posted. Life in Australia has been very busy since returning from Cambodia last October. In between our regular ministry work we’ve spent the last 9 months working out how we might be able to return to work in Cambodia as long term missionaries. We’re very excited to say that just this month we were formally appointed to be missionaries in Cambodia with Pioneers Australia. We’ve just finished our first Cambodian mission newsletter called Kingdom to Kingdom in which we explain briefly why we are going to Cambodia and what we hope to do there. If you’d like to join us on our journey to Cambodia then please subscribe to receive our regular newsletters by filling in your details on the right. Thanks.

The Killing Fields

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IMG_3714At the training weekend we attended to prepare for our mission to Cambodia we asked one of the trainers if they had any insights into the Cambodian people to help us in our ministry to them. We were simply told; “Go to the Killing Fields.”

Due to the political unrest in Phnom Penh and busyness of our ministry there we didn’t manage to get to the Killing Fields until the last week of our time in Cambodia. Nothing could have prepared us for this visit. What we saw and heard while there was disturbing.

The Killing Fields known as Choeung Ek are about 15
km southwest of Phnom Penh. Once a Chinese burial imageground, the Killing Fields, one of many such places in Cambodia, is where upwards of 20,000 people died. Load after load of people were brought here from Toul Sleng Prison to be executed.

To save the cost of bullets prisoners were bludgeoned to death with one of a selection of implements and then thrown into mass graves. Men, women, children and infants were killed here, even members of the Khmer Rouge who were suspected of being traitors of the regime.

As we walked around the Killing Fields we could see lying in the soil fragments of bone and teeth. These are collected up with the many bones of those once IMG_3702
buried here and put on display to honour those who died here and as reminder those left of what
happened here.

We left this place hoping we’d never have to see something like this ever again.