CBI Christmas Dinner

Saturday night, we had our CBI Christmas Dinner.  

These buffets have a pot with 2 kinds of broth and then a small grill on each table.  I think we had 5 of each for 17 people.






Just so that you know, there is a definite process on how a buffet is to be eaten.

First is the meat.  The Khmers don't usually eat a lot of meat, so it always surprises me at the tonnage of meat that they can consume if given the opportunity.

Seafood, pork, beef, chicken, duck - and lots of it!  It is all raw that  you either grill it or boil at the table.  


After MANY plates of various meats eaten by eat person, then they get stacks of vegetables.

It is said that you eat the meat until you are full.  Then you eat vegetables to kind of settle it down.  

Truly the amount of food they can eat is amazing.  

After they get through the vegetables, then you get a plate of fruit.  After that is shaved ice with fruit and syrup for dessert.

As you can see in the background, we had several that stood the entire time to eat.  It is serious business.  Sroy, the girl sitting by me, stood almost the whole time as well.
They all totally enjoyed it and were very grateful.

We are giving the students Wednesday through Friday off (probably more for us!).  

On Monday, the 30th, Rich will start teaching most of the students on Sermon Prep.  Khemrin will take our 3 newest students and teach them a New Testament basics class.

The boy in this picture on the right side in the white Tshirt is our newest student, Aung.  He is a friend of Eang, who is also a new student, sitting across the table in the gray Tshirt.

We will take New Years Day off.  

We hope you all have a very Merry Christmas.  May 2025 bring us closer to the Lord.  May we all work to deepen our faith in Him.  

Blessings to you all!

Ronda
 

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