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James Glasscock here.

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James has been here for nearly 2 weeks now, teaching all day.  He is teaching on the History of the Church in Acts.  He is giving the final tomorrow. This picture is of James teaching at the University Church of Christ and Try is translating. James was one of our youth group kids in San Angelo, TX.  So it is great to see the Christian man and teacher he has become.  He is currently preaching at the Early, TX Church of Christ.  He and his wife, Tanya have 2 daughters, Emma and Ellie. This is his 2nd trip to Cambodia to teach.  We look forward to the time that his family can accompany him as well. Last Saturday, we did the tourist thing and went to the National Museum, pictured here.  Most of the museum contains Buddhist statues (or parts of them) and inscribed stone tablets that they have found all over Cambodia.  We also went to the Royal Palace.  Since the king is in residence, you can't actually see the palace. This is the Silver Pagoda.  It is one of the te

NO CHEATING REQUIRED

Cambodia just released the results of the their nation-wide, end of 12 th grade instruction exam.  Like many European countries, this is a serious test. You have to pass it to get into college.  Two years ago, when things went like normal, around 87% of those who took the exam passed. However, that was with well-known cheating, selling of test answers and/or bribing of teachers.  This year, there was a crack-down on all forms of cheating.  No cheating or pay-offs allowed. 93,000 students took the test.   11, that’s right 11 out of 93,000, made an A.  219 made a B, 907 a C, 1823 a D and 20,157 made an E (the lowest possible passing grade, something like 50%).   Only a little over 25% of those who tested passed.  Two years ago, around 87% passed.  The Education Ministry advertized and advised that there would be a crack-down this year. Either the students didn’t believe them or they just weren’t properly prepared.  11 made an “A”, that’s .000118 %.  Lots of thoughts about this. 

We are all good!

Most of you have heard that Rich also had dengue fever.  However, according to the doctor, you had the "classic" kind instead of the "severe" kind like I got. His fever was never really high(although he did run a fever for several days and was miserable) and he also didn't have the problem of his platelets dropping.  The doctor did keep him in the hospital for a couple days just to make sure that he didn't have problems. So we are grateful for that.  His doctor pronounced him all well as of yesterday. Thank you so much for your prayers. James Glasscock  is here teaching on the History of the Church in Acts.  We are excited that he is here.  He was one of our youth group kids from San Angelo, TX.  He and his wife and 2 girls now live in Early, TX where he preaches.  He will be with us for 2 weeks.  Hopefully, I will get a picture later. Love you all! Ronda