via Khmer NZ
7/29/2010
By Frank Phillips
Becky Roe is seen with two children in a Cambodian orphanage she is currently running in Phnom Penh.
When David and Becky Roe let their son visit Cambodia they had no idea about the burden it would place upon their family.
On Thursday, David sat in The Paper office and held a black T-shirt to his face. It belongs to his wife and he has no idea if he will ever see her again.
"She didn't wash it before she left for Cambodia and it smells like her," he said. "I think I will sleep with it."
The Roes' story begins "a couple years ago" when their son, Isaac, went to visit Cambodia and Thailand on a mission trip for six months.
Isaac returned home filled with enthusiasm and a bag filled with pictures of children he met in Phnom Penh.
"He came back with a lot of pictures," David said. "We all did some praying. Becky felt a real tug on her heart."
Some of the pictures were of the children who live at a large dump outside the city. The kids, known as "pickers," live by going through the trash, looking for food.
"This is horrid," David said.
In May, Becky, Isaac and a group of other Montgomery County people traveled to Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
The group was based at a mission orphanage where 60 children lived.
"While she was there, God asked Becky if she would come back and stay," David said. "As Becky says, how do you turn down God?
"She came back extremely focused and very anxious to go back. It was all she could dream about and talk about."
The Roes raised money to buy Becky a one-way ticket to Cambodia by selling things in their home.
"She left here at the end of June with the idea we're trusting God will bring her back," David said.
That was when things took a bad turn for the Roes.
Becky was robbed and lost her visa and passport.
Her visa expires Monday, Aug. 2, and David doesn't know what will happen to her if she is caught in the country after that date.
David is trying to raise $2,000 to buy her a plane ticket to come home.
"I don't know what the plan is after Becky gets home," David said.
He said God hasn't told them, yet.
"I would like to fly to Phnom Penh, stay for a month, come home and rent out our house and then we go back permanently," he said.
The total cost would be about $10,000.
David has a plan to raise part of the needed money.
He is having a garage sale on Aug. 7 at 5437 S. C.R. 200E and Johnny Provolone's restaurant has agreed to have a benefit on Aug. 9.
In the meantime, he stays in contact with his wife and they wait for God to tell them the next move to make.
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