Melinda Cousins and Dan Newton, of the Blackwood Hills Baptist Church, have led overseas missions.
19 Jan 10
by Alice Monfries
via CAAI News Media
MELINDA Cousins is leaving the comforts of her Blackwood home to lead a volunteer group through impoverished Cambodia.
“We’ll be visiting orphanages and rehabilitation centres, as well as churches and an AIDS hospice,” she says.
“It will be good for us to get that perspective ... most of the world don’t live like us.”
The Blackwood Hills Baptist Church member, 34, will lead the group of 10 through Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh for a month, starting this week.
The group has raised more than $5000 through a quiz night and garage sale to donate to victims of land mines and poverty.
Fellow church member Dan Newton, of Coromandel Valley, spent two weeks leading a group of nine through Hong Kong and China last month, handing out literature and bibles.
Team member Tait Moore says it was “a rewarding experience to help out people who aren’t as fortunate as us”.
“Unlike here, people in China have no freedom.”
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