All Photos: Keith Gandy

I am going to collect portraits of people while in Cambodia that made my heart happy and attempt to tell their story here. Today I attended Community Baptist Church and met some wonderful people.

Forced by poverty, my parents gave me up and placed me in an orphanage for boys.

I have cared for orphan boys for over 20 years. It is my life's work, something I am very passionate about.

This is our family, all except our one nine year old daughter. She was on her way home from school this week and hit by a truck - her leg and foot were badly cut and fractured in multiple places. After the operation it will be months before she can walk again. (We took a special collection for the family's needs.)

I was a practicing homosexual in the Philippines - a cross-dresser. Then I placed my eternal trust in Jesus and my life was changed. Now I am happily married, have a beautiful wife and child, plus I have been used to plant a church in Phnom Pehn, Cambodia. God's grace is wonderful.

I live in a boy's orphanage and love it when someone shows special interest in me.

A distant cousin of mine crowed three times, before Peter denied Jesus three times. I crowed three times before the preacher finished proclaiming Jesus during church services.