#TFBloggers | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires

Images and Magic Moments from my trip to Cambodia with Tearfund

Anita Mathias — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 21:49:51 +0000

Meeting Sambath. “She’s a woman, but works like a man,” the Tearfund worker said–keeping her family going, growing watermelons and rice on unused strips of land she rents from neighbours who work in Phomh-Penh’s garment factories. I watched her give a bag of fresh grown rice (which I had never seen before!) to the Tearfund […]

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“Prosperity Theology” as a Hook for the Gospel: Hanging out with Christians in Cambodia

Anita Mathias — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:08:51 +0000

Rick Warren, of the wildly successful Saddleback Church, was influenced by Donald McGavran, maverick church planter, who suggested church planters use the kind of music people already listened to. The familiar music provides a hook for the Gospel. Some of the fastest-growing churches today use music as a hook; I think of the […]

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On The Falsity of Scarcity Thinking and the Fact of Abundance Everywhere

Anita Mathias — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 14:58:53 +0000

In which I help dig a field for a community project When I am stressed, I go into scarcity mode. I just want to survive. I just want people to help me survive. I withdraw into my hard tortoise shell and want to stay there till the storm has passed, occasionally sticking out my head […]

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On Pol Pot, Cambodia’s Killing Fields, and the Power of an Idea to Transform–or Destroy. (In Cambodia with Tearfund)

Anita Mathias — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:48:19 +0000

Stupa in the Killing Fields, commemorating the victims of the Khymer Rouge We wandered around the “Killing Fields” today, where thousands of the 3 million Cambodians who perished (out of a population of 8 million) were clubbed, hacked, or axed to death by the minions of Pol Pot, leader of the murderous Khmer Rouge Pol […]

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A Day in Cambodian Villages with Tearfund: Thoughts on Poverty, Shalom and Self-Sufficiency

Anita Mathias — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:37:12 +0000

The spiritual value which runs though Scripture is not prosperity (though, in the Old Testament, those blessed by God are generally prosperous). It is shalom. Strong’s Concordance translates it as “wholeness, health, peace, welfare, safety, soundness, tranquility, prosperity, perfectness, fullness, rest, harmony, the absence of agitation or discord.” What a lovely concept. It is not […]

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Growth Happens Outside the Comfort Zone. (And hello from Pnomh-Penh, Cambodia

Anita Mathias — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:41:44 +0000

One of my favourite Oxford walks is by the Thames from Iffley Lock to Folly Bridge. As it gets warmer, the river is crowded with school and college rowers. And, on the banks, an obnoxious man with a bullhorn cycles beside the perspiring rowers, shouting tips on posture and alignment and synchronization. Our family loves […]

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In which I will be Visiting Cambodia with Tearfund in March 2014

Anita Mathias — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 07:44:54 +0000

I am excited to announce that I will be going to Cambodia with Tearfund in March. Here is my post about why I would like to visit Tonle Batie, Cambodia with Tearfund. And here is Tearfund’s video announcement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLSm7DmfIZw&feature=youtu.be Read Tearfund’s Press Release. ‘Bloggers can change the world, or at the least they can change the way […]

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Why I want to go to Tonle Batie, Cambodia with Tearfund

Anita Mathias — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 13:41:17 +0000

I am applying to travel with Tearfund to Cambodia, to the village of Tonle Batie, near Pnomh Penh. Cambodia endured extreme economic and social devastation during the years of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, which has left a legacy of widows and orphans; of people who find it difficult to trust each other enough […]

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