Rich and Ronda Dolan

Here is a couple pictures of some of our students.  The guys above are:  Nuan, Wanna, and Sokan.  Awhile back, I wrote a blog about a wedding that Rich and I stood in as the parents of the groom - Nuan is that groom.  He's the one on the left.  He is older than most of our students and is a hard worker and great Bible student.  Wanna, the one in the middle is our newest student.  He was just baptized last week!!!!  So keep him especially in your prayers.  He is kind and friendly and always has a good attitude.  Good student as well.  Sokan doesn't have too much more school.  Most weekends, he goes with Sophal, an older man that is studying with us, to his village.  It is Lvea.  It is a new congregation.  After he graduates, he plans to go back and work with the Lvea congregation as well as perhaps establish one closer to his village.  He also studies English with me in the evenings. Sraytouj is the gir...

 Usually I tell you about Rich and the work going on here with the school, students, etc.  And that's what you really need to know about.  But I thought I would give you a little glimpse of one of my things - going to the market.  This is a neighborhood market and so a couple times a week, I walk there after chapel and buy vegetables and fruit that I need.  The picture above is of the lady that I buy from.  When we first came, I went to different booths and bought from different people.  But somewhere along the line, I settled here.  She has 3 children and her sister and mother also sell vegetables here. These are lotus flowers.  I hope you can tell that they all are the green bulbs.  Then they pull down a piece of the green covering at a time, fold the strips back and you get the pink and white flowers, depending on which one they are.  I wish the picture was better, but the market is very crowded and I was in the way.  ...

These are our students now.  They can and do smile...a lot.  But when you take pictures, they get very serious looking.  Oh, well.  They are really sweet. Here is an update on our Evangelism week that we had. Each day, the students are divided into 2 groups.  Rich takes half and Dennis takes the other half.  Each group goes to a different village every day.  I know that the names of places won't make any difference to you, but I will try to give you a short overview. Monday - Rich to TNT (orphanage there).  About 48 kids and 12 teens and adults meet to study.  Dennis went to Saang.  I posted the picture of the couple there with their store earlier.  They had about 70 kids come to sing and study. Tuesday - Rich to Rangdak - the student taught door to door and then later 43 kids came to study as well as 12 adults.  Dennis went to Takeo and visited with the people there. Wednesday - Rich took his group to Throul Pang Lpboa...

Some of the Christians decided that they would like to get together on a Saturday morning once a month to study the Bible and enjoy a time of fellowship.  So, last Saturday at 8am (yes, these are kids in their 20's who choose to meet at 8am on a Saturday - not my first choice, but, oh, well!)  So, we split up the girls and the guys.  Both groups studied about God's wonderful creation.  Then we had a time of games and refreshments.  There were 12 ladies and 6 guys.  We are thrilled at their desire to get together and share God's Word and their time together. Please continue to pray and encourage the Christians here.  Much love, Ronda

 During an Evangelism Week, our students are split into 2 groups and every day, each group goes out to a village to encourage the Christians there, teach, and visit with the people.  On Monday, one group went to TNT and the other group went to Sa-ang.  The pictures here are of Sovann and Sokna.  They live in the village of Sa-ang.  Both are graduates of the CBI school and wonderful people. Since they are just starting the church in this village, Sokna decided to set up a store as her vocational work. Christians from the US helped to get her started.  This is one of the ways that our preachers and teachers support themselves while they teach people in their village.  We are proud of her idea to set up a store as this allows her to be home to assist in classes when they teach both children and adults and also enables her to meet her neighbors and interact with them.  Keep them in your prayers. Love, Ronda

 The schools let out 2 weeks early here because of a strain of hand,foot, and mouth disease.  When we first got a message from the embassy on it, there were 59 confirmed cases and 52 deaths.  So, the powers that be decided to start the summer vacation 2 weeks early.  The disease affected mostly children from age 2-13.  Since this is a community based country, and there is so much interaction between families, the virus moved quickly.  It seems as if it is calmed down now and we are grateful that no one that we know were touched by this.  A few weeks ago, one of the village in the northern part of the country by Siem Reap had 4 baptisms.  Sochea, who is Tawn's youngest brother, is the preacher there.  (For those of you who don't know or don't remember, Tawn was Rich's coworker at the school and died a year and a half ago)  Sochea was in our school for the first year that we were here and his wife, Pisay, is one of our graduates. ...