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  • The Early Eighties – Chapter 14

    Cry of the Gecko Chapter Fourteen                      The Early Eighties 1981 In 1981, the Kellers returned to the US and spent their furlough in Minnesota. Chuck did three short-term stints in the refugee camps in Thailand in 1982-83. His first trip th...

  • The X-Patriate Files – Chapter 13

    Cry of the Gecko Chapter Thirteen                               The X-Patriate Files THE ECF The Kerrs, long time attendees of the ICF (International Christian Fellowship), formerly known at the ECF (Ecumenical Christian Fellowship) happened...

  • Too Many People Going Underground – Chapter 12

    Everybody Knows this is Nowhere!    Everybody Knows this is Nowhere! Cry of the Gecko Chapter Twelve                Too Many People Going Underground 1980[1] 1979 and 1980, were years that the government did not pay that much attention to the small remnan...

  • Everybody Knows this is Nowhere! -chapter 11

    The Cry of the Gecko Chapter Eleven                         Everybody Knows this is Nowhere! 1979– Thai Border Camps[1] Massacre at Preah Vihear On June 10th, 1979, it was at the Preah Vihear Temple complex area where 43,000 to 45,000 Cambodian refugees who ha...

  • We Were Rockin’ in the Free World – Chapter 10

    Chapter Ten                         We Were Rockin’ in the Free World 1979–Heng Samrin , Hun Sen, Chea Sim  On January 7th, Vietnamese forces and the revolutionary army of the National Front for Solidarity and Liberation of Cambodia defeated the Khmer Rouge regime...

  • Roger and Out Cambodia – Chapter 8

    Cry of the Gecko Chapter Eight                        Roger and Out Cambodia 1975– The Keller family lived in Pailin from October 1974 to March 1975, making a trip during that time to Vietnam for the 1975 SIL branch conference in January. During those months at Pailin, Ch...

  • What Are We Fighting For? – Chapter 7

    Cry of the Gecko Chapter Seven          What Are We Fighting For? 1973 “In January at a rally of Buddhist students numbering 1,200, half of them expressed that they had become Christians. The leader of the Buddhist student organization announced that he also had become a Ch...

  • Rumors of War and the Shape of Things – chapter 6

    Cry of the Gecko Chapter Six                Rumors of War and the Shape of Things Massacre of Vietnamese (1970) “In 1970, World Vision (WVI) first entered Cambodia in response to the Cambodian government’s international appeals for assistance. WV International Presi...

  • Cry of the Gecko: Introduction

    Cry of the Gecko: Introduction A special thanks to Susie Koffman, Susan Smith, David Rebok, Pastor Phou Amra and Stephen Ney who helped me put this together. Introduction: A Historical Sketch of early Cambodian History and the Beginnings of a Christian Presence in Cambodia This manuscript is mea...

  • Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming – Chapter 5

    Cry of the Gecko Chapter Five                   Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming 1969 –Advent of Pro-Western Lon Nol –Some Missionaries Return Richard Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey by a slim margin and became President of the United States, and at the time there were 850...