Rich and Ronda Dolan

 Due to some really sweet friends of ours, I was able to go to Come Before Winter, a women's renewal conference in Brisbane, Australia the first week of March.  I enjoyed getting to meet ladies from around the Australia/New Zealand area mostly.  The study of Matthew was very encouraging and uplifting. Our 33rd wedding anniversary was March 11th, so we decided that this would be a good time to take a few days after my conference for us. Since we live on this side of the world, a trip to Australia is relatively inexpensive.  So after my conference, Rich met me in Gold Coast, which is at the southern end of Queensland, and we rented a car and drove south down the coastline for 4 1/2 days ending in Sydney, where we flew out of to come back home. It was a fantastic, refreshing trip.  God made the coastline of Australia beautiful and we thoroughly enjoyed it!  We rented rooms in people's houses along the way, which was also a fun experience.  An...

Some of our graduates got to come back for a time of study and fellowship on Thursday and Friday. We started Thursday morning with an hour of singing. Then, Veasna taught on Ephesians 4:1-6. ( I didn't get a picture of him on Thursday.) Then Borey taught on Ephesians 4:7-16.  Borey is one of our graduates working in his village in Prey Veng province.  He is an excellent teacher and has a good heart for the Lord.  Soklee then taught on Ephesians 4:17-32.  Soklee lives in Battambang province and he works with Sokun in their village. When Soklee first came to the school, we couldn't get him to talk at all.  He was so shy.  It is wonderful to see what a good teacher he has become. And he teaches with boldness. We ate lunch together and then in the afternoon, played some Bible games and just had a good time with the current students getting to know some of our graduates.  Friday morning, we started out with singing again.  It is encour...