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Have Faith in God

After spending 2 nights and a day and a half at the hospital, and having her young husband die, Navy went back to the school, where she and Tawn live, to finally get a shower and change clothes. When she came back down the stairs to help wash the body, I nearly cried...she had changed into a shirt that in Khmer (the Cambodian language) says, "Have faith in God". How awesome is that!! Through one of the most difficult times in her life, she reminded herself and all of us to have faith in God. She wore that shirt for that entire day, in front of many family members that are Buddhist. I thought that said a lot about her faith, her character, and her love for God. Keep this sweet lady in your prayers and she is now trying to sort out her life. She, like her husband, Tawn, is a wonderful Christian example. We are blessed by her life. Much love, Ronda

Tawn is singing with the angels

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As many of you have heard, our dear friend, interpreter, teacher at the preaching school, Tawn Lork, died yesterday. He was 33 years old. He was hit by a drunk driver while on his motorcycle in the northwest part of the country. It is a very long sad story. He died Sunday, December 26th at about 11am. We will remember him always. As I said, he was our friend. He worked with Rich every day; always had a smile. He loved God, he loved us and he loved our students. Tawn and Navy, his wife, lived at the school as he was the Dean of Students. He was wonderful at taking care of problems, helping the students with their studies, and was a mentor to them all. I can't even imagine the school without him there. He was a devout Bible student and well as effective preacher and teacher. God blessed him with a great personality, capable of reaching many with his kind words, smile, encouragement and belief in God. He made our transition to Cambodia very easy as he was always here to hel

A few more graduation pictures

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This first picture is of the outside of the school. This was taken after graduation and everyone is eating and visiting. The 2nd picture is of some of our past graduates. I told Rich it was like all the children coming home; it was great! In this picture is: Chheav, Chanty, Try, Sothea, Sophea, Sochea, and Khim. They are all working for the Lord in various places around Cambodia now. The last picture is of our graduates. Sovann, Pisay and Soklee. They were really a joy to have at the school and we'll miss getting to see them everyday. Oh, well...you know how it is...the children have to grow up and work on their own.

Wonderful Graduation Ceremony!

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Saturday, December 18th, we had our graduation ceremony for 3 of our students. There were probably about 55 people in attendance and it was a lot of fun. The singing was great! Sokgoon and Pben lead the singing, and Sothea (picture #2), one of our past graduates gave the message. He talked about being fishers of men. The last picture is of Rich, Tawn, and Dennis with our graduates: Sovann, Pisay (our first girl graduate) and Soklee. All 3 are wonderful Christian people and we wish them well as they go on in their different works for the Lord. On the next blog, I will put up more pictures. Love to all, Ronda

Here and in Singapore

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I thought I would send you a couple picture of our traffic. I keep thinking it is more "normal" than it was, when probably, I am just used to it now. In the picture of the motorcycle with the family - I could take 50 pictures like this every day, but thought you might like to see. The child on the front is asleep and is the child on the front far side of the mother. Then, in case you didn't notice the extra leg, there is 3 children between the father and mother. When a moto is your family car, you all have to fit! The last picture was taken in one of the malls in Singapore. We were able to go to Singapore the first weekend of December. Rich preached a meeting for the Lavendar Road Church of Christ. They are such sweet people! We always enjoy visiting with them. But since, in the US, we don't have eating places like this, I thought you might enjoy it. Our Graduation ceremony was Saturday so the next blog will be pictures of that. Much love, Ronda

Our Thanksgiving

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Since Thanks-giving isn't a holiday here, we moved it to the Saturday after and met together at the BEST Center. So these are pictures of the group of us Americans having Thanksgiving. The food was good as was the fellowship. We hope your thanksgiving was excellent and that you remembered to truly thank God for the abundance of blessings that we have from Him. Much love, Ronda PS. In the first picture, Rich is at the far end of the table in the blue striped shirt.

More Water Festival pictures

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