New Students and Camp

               Guest Blogger Rich here, as Ronda is in the USA helping our daughter Rebekah before and after she delivers our new grand-daughter (whose name I know, but can't tell you yet!) 

Lots of exciting action here.  In September, we attended the country wide seminar hosted by the church in Battambong. Ronda posted pics of that, but I wanted you to see it on the map.  It's only 300 km=180 miles. It always takes us over 6 hours to get there

Late in September, we had a gaggle of new students join our school - CBI. We expected 3-4, but they just kept coming.   We have ended up with 12 new students and had to turn away at least 5 more due to lack of room, resources, teachers and money. Wow!! Here is a picture of this class.  They studied MARK with Dale Lundy.  Many of you know Dale or know of him.  His parents are Jim and Betty Lundy. Those Lundys were worshipping at BA when we first moved there. Dale comes to Cambodia every year for 2-3 months. He usually teaches at CBI one month while he is here.



We started a new system in January of this year. Instead of bible study all day, the students study bible all morning and then attend college or vocational training in the afternoon. I think this had a lot to do with our increase in new students.

Some General Session Speakers 

November 9th-12th was country wide church camp for all ages. This year, we had over 180 people come.  It's only the 6th year of camp. All of our students were expected to attend. The camp costs is $20.  CBI students had to pay $7.50 and the school paid the other $12.50. That may not seem like much, but they are students with no income.  All had a great experience.  For most of them, they had never, ever done anything like this.  It was great.

My group preparing food. 

Washing Dishes after supper 

And, two days after church camp ended, these two were baptized into Christ. Welcome Bundeth (male) and Sokcheat (female) into the body of Christ!!