Rich and Ronda Dolan

 Just a week after our church camp, I (Ronda) was able to go to the US for our grandson's, Jack Loren Maynard birth.    We are extremely grateful to God for His blessing of this sweet little one.  And although Jack took his sweet time getting out to see us, he is healthy.  He weighed 8 lbs 14 oz and 21 inches long at birth.  Rebekah (and Evan) are doing well.  That also meant that I got to be in the US for Thanksgiving with all my kids and grandkids.  We skyped Rich a few times so he could talk to everyone while we were together.  It is always a wonderful time when we get to spend time with our kids. 2 days before I left the US, Rich's dad died.  Rebekah, Jack and I were able to make a quick run to Midland, TX for a few hours to be with family before returning to Plano to prepare to leave. While I was in the US, Rich was here in Cambodia working.  He finished up teaching Matthew to our students. Also, for those of you who have been with us for our 10 years her

Our country-wide, all ages church camp was November 2-5th.  We were at a new place this year - no ocean, but nice country area with good facility.  There were 164 people that came this year, the largest so far.  The theme was United in Christ - Ephesians 4:1-6. We ate together.  We played together. We enjoyed seeing brothers and sisters that we don't get to see very often from other parts of the country; and enjoyed meeting new brothers and sisters in Christ. We had teams that we worked together with and competed against other teams with.  Here is my(Ronda) team... and it was the best!! But most importantly, we worshipped our God together.  It is so encouraging for Christians who are few and spread apart, to get to come together and join together. We sang together. We prayed together. We listened to wonderful lessons on Ephesians 4:1-6  Rich started off the first evening with an overview of Ephesian

This blog is just bits of several things. Some are important - a new brother in Christ; and some I thought you might find funny. We were eating at a place and I went into the bathroom.  This is the sign inside the bathroom. Here, you don't flush toilet paper down the toilet like we do in the US, so I was expecting that sign.  But I did think this sign was clever.  This is the outside of our new school. It was 10 bedrooms(2 we use for office/study space), 2 large open spaces for classes, etc.  It is actually built so that you can put a wall down the middle and have 2 separated houses, if the landlord wanted.  So there are 2 sets of staircases all the way up inside along with a set of stairs in the back on the outside.  It is a new building, but several hundred dollars a month cheaper than our former place, as well as being closer to our house. We pray that it will be used to God's glory.  Rejoice with us as Piseth Ratha was baptized last Sunday!!  He was studying

 Sorry it has taken me so long to get this posted. Last Friday, August 25th, we had a graduation ceremony in addition to our anniversary of being in Cambodia for 10 years. We had a good group with good food.  It is always fun to get to pull a lot of Christians together.  Kimsruv, one of our former graduates spoke at the graduation.  He is also the older brother of Kimsrouen, one of the ones that graduated this night.  Kimsruv is currently working with the church in his village with another one of his brothers, Kimsrun, who is also a graduate of CBI.  This is Aet (pronounced Utt).  He is just a good person.  He is very encouraging to our newer students and really wants to live his life in the right way and helps others as well.  Khemrin is another one of our graduates.  He started school some time ago and then stopped studying for awhile before coming back.  His attitude when he returned was totally different and he has become a strong Christian man. He is currently wo

  We want you to meet Jarrod.  He is originally from Toronto, Canada.  He is an English teacher and is here in Phnom Penh working at one of the school, teaching English. Jarrod realized after reading his Bible that he needed to be baptized.  He was baptized as a baby in the Catholic faith.   Sunday, July 30th, Rich met with him and studied with him and he was baptized!! Please pray for him.  He is eagerly looking for ways that he can work for the Lord here in Cambodia.   At the school, Rich is teaching Ezekiel while Veasna is teaching I and II Timothy.   We are looking forward to our graduation/10 year anniversary celebration on August 25th.  We are also getting ready to move the school to the new location. Much love, Ronda

 We had a wonderful trip to the US!  It was centered around my (Ronda)parent's 60th wedding anniversary.  A large part of our family met in Idaho for the anniversary party/reunion.  We really enjoyed getting to spend several days all together.  In the picture above is my parents, Penny and Loren Hollingsworth; and "the kids", Julie, me, Kim and Troy.  I doubt that 60 years ago, my parents could have imagined that our family would grow to this!!!  They have 15 grandchildren and of now, 10 great grandchildren.  (There are also 3 expectant moms in this picture.)  I am so grateful to God for the fantastic blessing to be a part of this family.  Then, since our kids and grandkids were already together, we took 3 more days together.  We rented an Airbnb house about 80 miles south of Boise, ID.  It was great!!!  This is us with our 4 grandchildren.  A really sweet time. So this is our crew (or tribe).  Rebekah is pregnant, so we will be adding one more in November.  W

 Since the last blog was a heavy from the talk of the Killing Fields, I thought I would give you an "around the city" blog. For those of you who have been here, this is the circle between our house and the Russian Market area.  Rich and I were walking one day a couple weeks ago and this was hanging there. Probably a truck pulled the wire down and, so that people didn't walk or ride their motorcycles into it, someone attached a palm branch and plastic bag to the wires. Here, if there is a hole in the road, even in the city, they just put a stick or a branch in the hole and hopefully you see it before running into it.  It is especially hard to see at night!  No flashing lights to let you know.  After I saw the wires hanging down, I thought you might like to see our wiring. This first picture is our the 2nd floor of my sister, Julie's house.  This is on a cut-through street between our house and the school. The next picture is of the same lines, just clo