Rich and Ronda Dolan

 As of April 14th, the government put a lockdown on Phnom Penh.  It is to last until the 28th.  It wasn't too bad.  We could get outside to exercise and go to the nearest grocery store/market three times per week.  They did have some road blocks in and out of the neighborhoods and you had to show papers to get to go through.  I had gone to the grocery store just before they set up and they let me go back to the house.  Now I am told that they have moved permanent blocks in most of the entrances to the neighborhoods so that they can control better who is coming and going. However, we just got an email from the US Embassy with the stricter guidelines.  Most of them don't really apply to us but we aren't allowed outside to exercise anymore.  (I will say that I saw a lot more people out exercising these last few days than normal.)  So, we are home except food runs.   We are thankful that some of the food stores now have delivery se...

Every now and then, some of our graduated students who are out preaching in their villages, send me pictures.  I thought that I would share some of them. This is Borey in the first 2 pictures. He has quite a few teenagers.  4 of the teenagers that were in his congregation are now in Phnom Penh studying in universities.   These next 2 pictures of Sokun and Soklee's village in Battambang province.  This is the same place as the picture I sent of everyone during Sunday services with their feet in water. Sokun and Soklee have worked hard to teach in their village and in the surrounding villages. Sokun particularly has made a point to get involved in the community.  Here he is giving them tips on COVID.  I think his involvment in his village and the care and love he shows all the people have made a big impact on them, and therefore, on the church. This is Kakada and Piset's village services.  They have had to deal with terrible neighbors and other prob...