Top photos from last month on the World Race.  This is the team that Karen and I pour our lives into.  After spending September in Viet Nam, they've spent this last month in Cambodia and yesterday flew to Bangkok and Myanmar.  In each place they confront new pain and seek to bring a measure of hope.  Enjoy.

Thailand - September 2008 - The July '08 squad on Koh Samet Island. - photo from Jennifer Crane.

Nicaragua - September 2008 - Team 5-Alive: "This 20X20 room is our church.  We meet as the body here almost every morning even if it is only to pray." - photo by Natalie Montgomery

Vietnam - September 2008 - Sleeping in Saigon - photo by Josh Bruce

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Vietnam - September 2008 - "There is prostitution going on every night on the floor below where I sleep..." "...The battle started the day I met Iris. (not her real name) The night I saw her she walked down the dark corridor of the main floor of our hotel escorted by an older gentleman in red silk pajamas.  As the man opened the door to room number 7 she looked back over her shoulder intently into my eyes
with this look of desperation and emptiness." - photo by either Amy McAllister or Tara Bruce

Vietnam - September 2008 - A street in Ho Chi Minh City. - photo by Jennifer Crane

Thailand - September 2008 - Racer Patrice Deaton "Telling Ta and Kung how much Jesus loves them." - photo by Meredith Dinsdale

Vietnam - September 2008 - One of the many, many MANY motorbikes in Vietnam. - photo by Katie Rowland

Vietnam - September 2008 - A beggar in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral. - photo by Tara Bruce

Vietnam - September 2008 - "This is [World Racer] Lisa [Smith] with a baby that has a birth defect called Omphocele (the intestines don't get fully encapsulated by the stomach)"
- photo by Natalie Montgomery

Cambodia - September 2008 - "I look at this boys face and I see a story of struggle, but not one without hope." - photo by Tara Bruce

Vietnam - September 2008 - A bicycle taxi driver. - photo by Tara Bruce