Well it's a good one for today. We started at our favorite little coffee shop "True Coffee" for our morning huddle. 
"Satudee" is the Happy Homes Poipet "Mom" on the right and "Jantunee" came up to help from Thailand Chaing Rai . They have fed us, transported us, kept us on schedule, helped us roll right across all border inspection areas and just blessed us with their kind Godly spirit in so many ways! The coffee at this place is amazing! Gives Starbucks shame.
After Coffee time we boarded up to head into the Mercy Ministries Primary school to allow Dr. Mike Lacey's new Cambodian teenager Oral Health Care Instruction Brigade the opportunity to teach 415 very impoverished children how to better take care of their teeth. These are a few pix of the road we walk down through their neighborhood until arriving at the School...
Once arriving at the school we took 6 groups of 40-80 kids at a time and Pastor Dave the Wave kicked off the training with a little Harlow Style "You pick-a-me-up!"
Then the trainers went into action with the Oral Hygiene lessons...
Due to the sheer volume of kids we didn't have time to do individual brushing instructions so we just showed them how as a group then applied massive Fluoride varnish! 
As we left for lunch we took an alternate dirt road to the Thai/Cambodian Border "ditch" and all of the Neighbor kids came up running to give us the love! These are truly amazing people!
Then back to the school to see the second hundred kids...
We have been eating the last three nights at this Casino at the Border. It's the funniest place because when you order 1/3 of the people on our group get their food right away...the second third get theirs about 15 minutes later. The last third get their meals one person about every 10 minutes. We all cheer when another meal comes out and take bets on who will be the last served and have to pack it to go as everyone else finished an hour earlier...
Parting is such sweet sorrow...after dinner we went back to Happy Homes and Ryan showed his movie from the Orphanage yesterday. They LOVED it! Dave the Wave led worship of song and they sang songs to us in their language. They circled us up and all prayed for us and we headed back to the hotel with slightly fewer suitcases! Tomorrow morning (Tuesday Midday for you) we will begin the travel back to Seam Reap and fly to Bankok and the to Chiang Rai to the Home of Blessing. Thanks for all your prayers. All is well here. Hope you are as well. Good night from us as we say good morning and "happy Tuesday" to you!
Posted by Ron Ewert
The conditions near Mercy Minestry make me feel for the poverty there, but their joy and love would say otherwise. It sounds like there is a great number of people to reach out to there.
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