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Place of Rescue Dance Troop is coming to Squamish for a one night presentation. Actually Squamish is their first city in their upcoming 8 month trip!! Pretty exciting.

Marie Ens, the Director of Place of Rescue, was just the key speaker at Missions Fest this 2018 so she might be familiar to some of you. She has been working in Cambodia pretty much her whole life - and is 86 and going strong!! Talk about someone who has bloomed where God planted her!!!

We have invited all the churches to join us at Squamish Community Church, so we can come around these kids with a full-blessing from the Church in Squamish, to send them on the way as they tour Canada for the next 8 months.

We will also need to billet 17 people (12 kids, 3 leaders, and 2 chaparones) so if you can open your home for one night, that would be wonderful. Please contact Pastor Darcy from the River Church to learn how you can get involved.

The team would need to be picked up after the performance at 9 pm, and given a light snack before bed that night. In the morning they would need a simple breakfast (we suggest fried eggs, toast, juice and fruit) before being dropped off at Bean early afternoon. It will be Grand Fondo that morning so what might need to happen is the billet family do their best to get the kids to a walking bridge so they can cross the highway, where they will be picked up by the team bus (Valleycliffe - dropped off to path where they can go under the hwy to McDonalds / Garibaldi Highlands & Estates dropped off at Tantalus Bike Bridge so they can walk to Bean Brackendale).

To learn more about Place of Rescue I have taken a clip from a recent Global News article, so please take a look. You'll see some of the Dancers as well.

https://globalnews.ca/news/1151492/everyday-hero-marie-ens-dedicates-life-to-cambodias-orphans/

She started Place of Rescue as a hospice, setting up 16 homes to care for AIDS patients near the capital, Phnom Penh.

“At the time, we had no anti-viral drugs … so they mostly died,” she said. “Well, they all died.”

But with their deaths, the patients who had lived at Place of Rescue left behind children.

“We started out by thinking, well we’ll start an orphanage and maybe in 5 years we would have it up and running,” 80-year-old Ens said. “Well, it happened so quickly. It was just no time before we had 10 houses and then no time before the 10 houses were filled.”

Now there are 20 homes at Place of Rescue, but Ens’ operation expanded to a second and third facility as well..."