Rich and Ronda Dolan

This weekend, we were able to go to Sihanoukville, a town on the coast. The grocery store here, that caters to foreigners, has a program that adds up points. Well, after nearly 3 years, we had enough points to go to a fantastic resort on the coast and spend 2 nights free! Let me tell you, it was great! Since my birthday was 2 weeks ago, we counted it as that! It is a huge place with a private beach as well as 2 swimming pools, work out facilities, tennis courts, restaurants, etc. (We were too lazy to work out!) It was overcast the whole time we were there, and although the water looks prettier when the sun is shining, it was great! I was on the beach all day for 2 days and never broke a sweat! As you can see in the last picture, there are little huts along the beach that you can sit under when it is raining and just enjoy the rain and the ocean. Again, it was fantastic! The first picture is of Rich...the child that he is, rolling around in the water when the waves hit. The next...

A few more pictures from our trip out of town. This first two are in Keb, the town on the coast. Again, I don't usually use the word "cold" in association with Cambodia, but it was windy and cold. OK...cold is relative; it was probably in the lower to mid 70s, but that is cold here. The last picture is of a Buddha that was up on the side of a hill off of the highway. Just to let you see some of what we see. Love, Ronda

These are just some pictures that I took while we were on the highway to Keb. I loved the clouds sitting down on the mountains. And the rice fields were bright green. Many of the rice fields have been replanted already, but a lot of people were out in their fields replanting. I told Rich that one of these days, we were going to drive leisurely so that we could stop and take picture up close of people working in their fields. But for now, I hope you enjoy these.

On Saturday we took a group of Christians from one of the congregations here on a day trip to Keb, which is on the coast. There were about 30 of us in all. We had a nice devotional time, lunch and then free time after arriving. This first picture is of Chaeut, one of our students at CBI. It was his first time to the ocean and he was loving it! He was trying to jump when the waves came. It was cold (yes, I used the word "cold" in Cambodia) and rainy so we didn't stay in the water long. The 2nd picture is of our CBI students that came. They are: Sraymom, Makara, Sraythouj and Chauet. The last picture is of the group as we were getting ready to have a devotional. Billie Martin, who is here teaching in the BEST Center from Grandbury, TX, did one talk and Try, one of our graduates who works with this congregation did another talk. After the devotional, we ate lunch and they surprised me with a personal sized cake for my birthday. Much love, Ronda

James Glasscock was here for 2 weeks and taught our students I and II Timothy and Titus. He taught all day for 2 weeks. Let me tell you, with the heat, teaching for 6 hours a day without air conditioning wears you out! The students enjoyed his being here. In this picture, Cheav is translating. Try translated in the mornings for James and Cheav translated in the afternoons. Since both Try and Cheav have their own congregations that they work with, we don't want to take too much of their time. James was in our first youth group in San Angelo, Texas. (He was Jimmy then) So it was fun to get to know him again and remember old times as well. They have served the Lord in several places, but are currently in Troy, New York. Much thanks to his wife, Tanya and his 2 daughters for giving up some time with James so that he could be here with us. Much love, Ronda