New Year's Fellowship

On Thursday morning, Dec. 30th we drove to Battambang Province for the New Years Fellowhip.  

Several of our students are from Battambang Province, but from different villages.

We stopped at Jenthra's house for lunch on the way. These 2 pictures are at her house.

Not all of our students could come as some had university classes that they couldn't miss.

(Just a note, on the way home, we stopped at 5 of our students houses to drop them off for a couple days with their families.  It ended up taking 10 hours to get home.  It is 250 kilometers/155 miles.  The roads were pretty much terrible and our A/C in the truck went out.  So lots of dirt and dust.  Thankfully, it wasn't too hot. The shower at home felt really nice!)
Then at supper time, we drove on to Sokun's house in another village in Battambang Province.  Sokun graduated from CBI ten years ago and he and Soklee do a great job in their village.

Sokun is very active in the community and has been able to reach many people because of that.

This is a group of teenagers that meet several times a week to sing praises to God.  Isn't that great!

Sokun is the one standing in this picture.  His sweet wife is behind the fan so you can't see her.  
Thursday night, we split up and stayed in the houses of our students.  

The next day, we drove into Battambang City just to spend a little time looking around before going out to the place where the fellowship was.

This is us!

The New Year's Fellowship was great.  Since it has been so long since we were able to meet together, this was especially sweet.

We stayed in tents in a park area by a river.  

This is the group on Friday night, December 31st.  We didn't get a count of how many were there, but there were Christians from several places in Battambang Province, Siem Read and Phnom Penh.

Dawn on January 1, 2022.  

Please pray that we will be faithful and serve God well in this new year.  Pray for our students that their hearts may truly be touched by God's Word.  Pray for the Christians here; for their faith to grow and for them to be examples to all around them.

May you grow closer to God in 2022.

Much love,

Ronda
 

Comments

Greg Fleming said…
Thanks for sharing this news and accompanying photos, Ronda. My memory of Sokun is that he is a thoughtful, serious student of God’s word and an enthusiastic singer. No surprise that he is a blessing to all.
January 12, 2022 at 1:17 AM
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