Its a Gooch Life

01/04/2026

April 2026 Newsletter 🇰🇭❤️ -

Dear friends and family, Warm greetings from Cambodia! As we embrace the month of April, we are grateful for your ongoing prayers, support, and encouragement. God continues to do amazing things here, and we are excited to share the latest updates. Before that, we would like to bless you during Ho...

20/12/2025

Merry Christmas from The Gooches! 🎄 -

You may have seen various news reports over the past few months about tensions along the Cambodia-Thailand border. To summarize the situation, there are longstanding disagreements about border demarcation that date back decades. The issue reignited this year and has very recently escalated into mili...

29/09/2025

Another Update From The Gooches 🌏 -

Cambodia just concluded a 15 day annual holiday called Pchum Ben, which means “gather together” (pchum) and “ball of rice” (ben). The holiday is a series of events rooted from Buddhism. The start of the holiday involves Buddhist monks performing overnight rituals of chanting and drumming. Th...

02/07/2025

Another Day In the Life In Cambodia 🇰🇭 -

In our last letter, we spoke about how we still witness so many cultural behaviours and rituals that we still have a sense of awe, even after 5 years of living in Cambodia. We realized that sometimes our perception of how life here is that we barely notice, or give less thought about, things that ma...

03/04/2025

The Kingdom of Wonder 🇰🇭 -

We have had the fortune to be invited to a few Cambodian weddings recently. They are very different from what we are used to in the US. It is important to dress up, specifically in traditional Khmer clothing if possible. The venues are sometimes in tents, often on the public street in front of the b...

01/10/2024

A Little Encouragement - https://mailchi.mp/7755380f294d/a-little-encouragement

30/06/2024

A New Journey 🚙 ✈️ - https://mailchi.mp/229cc3631d86/a-new-journey

01/04/2024

I don't know jack about jack fruit...
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I have never cut up a jackfruit before. I have no idea if I am doing this right. 🤔 by: ...

30/03/2024

Mixed Emotions 😀😐😔 - https://mailchi.mp/ec707f4b9eb8/mixed-emotions

30/12/2023

A year of wonder! 🤩 - https://mailchi.mp/1fa5b2d2d5b0/a-year-of-wonder

01/10/2023

Family Time! ❤️ - https://mailchi.mp/ef233e2f5a72/family-time