Rich and Ronda Dolan

What a month this has been!  Rich has been teaching all day this month; Ezekiel in the mornings and then Greek in the afternoons.  And he gave his finals in those classes yesterday. So as of tonight at about 11:20pm, we are headed stateside. Our schedule is: July 27 - leave Phnom Penh July 28 - arrive in Houston.  Visit with Jason and our new grandbaby, Avery.                  We plan to worship with the Memorial Church of Christ while in Houston. Aug. 6 - fly to DFW.  Visit with Rebekah and Evan in Plano.                  We plan to worship with the Waterview Church of Christ there. Aug. 11 - fly to Richmond, VA.  Visit with Reuben and Emily                    We will be worshiping with the Three Chopt Rd Church of Christ. Aug. 18 - fly to Tulsa, OK.  We will be staying with Randall, Kassie, Kenley and ...

 I started to write this blog about a week ago and the electricity went out, so I couldn't write it.  Then, I totally forgot about it. So, here it is. On June 11th, David and Elaine Maynard, along with their daughter, Kayla and her husband, Chris Chambers, landed in Cambodia.  Because of a problem in San Francisco, they were without luggage for a couple days.  Always fun!!! David and Elaine Maynard, for those of you who don't know them, have been friends of ours for years.  David is currently serving as an elder in the church at Broken Arrow.  We have the honor of their son being our son-in-law. David came about 2 years ago with Scott Keele;  Kayla, their daughter, came about 4 years ago to teach English in the BEST Center.  David did teach on the 5 Love Languages during Rich's class at the school on Christian Family on Tuesday before we headed to Siem Reap. The trip to Siem Reap takes about 5 or so hours by car.  The last time Da...

Another month has passed and I haven't blogged.  Sorry! In May, Rich wrapped up teaching the book of John.  Dan Wilson taught I and II Thessalonians. The students also took a sermon prep class during that month. Then we had an Evangelism week.  The students went to a different place each day to talk to people and teach.  Some of those days were out in the villages and some days, they were in Phnom Penh.  Particularly in Phnom Penh, Rich is trying to get them to build relationships with the people they see each day along the streets.  They are always surprised when they walk with us that we speak to all the people along the way that we see each day.  So we are trying to encourage that and show them that they can be more effective by knowing the people they are wanting to teach about Christ. For 3 days, we had Paul Pinckley here to teach on Leadership.  I am sorry that I didn't get a picture of him teaching.  Paul and his wife, Debbie li...

First, let me say thank you so much for all the prayers on my behalf.  My arthroscopic knee surgeries went well and I am getting along well. I went to Thailand for the surgery as they have good medical care there (not so in Cambodia).  Of course, while in Thailand, you might as well enjoy the things they have that we don't.  That would include hazelnut macchiato and cinnamon roll from Starbucks.   Trying to time things so that I had the Khmer New Year to recuperate at home with Rich's help, my sister, Julie, came with me.  So, we did manage to hop some buses, eat some sticky rice and pork satay as well as sweet sticky rice and mangoes. What you can't tell in this picture is that after our sticky rice and pork satay, we ate ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery (we managed that a couple times!).  This was before my surgeries, while I was mobile.  This is a picture in the hospital of my ice packed knees!  Several of the Thai Christians came to...

SeakChang, Sophea and Rich Dolan  CBI's Graduation in April saw Pha SeakChang and Yon Sophea complete their course work and training.  SeakChang has been a great student with a good heart. She is always smiling and encouraging others. Sophea has been a leader from the start. He's a little older than some of our students and has a maturity about him. These two pictures are of Aet (current CBI student) leading singing and of Dale Lundy, who gave the commencement address. Aet started at CBI about a year ago and has become a Christian while here. Dale has taught several times at CBI.  Veasna is translating for him. Here are the graduates with the teachers who are currently here. I told them we represent all the instructors who have taught them. Those include:  Greg Fleming, Scott Keele, Bob Jackson, Loren Hollingsworth, James Glasscock, Dale Lundy, Ray Hull, Tim Brumfield, John Breeden, David Burton, Tray Kim Try, Dennis Welch, Tol Veasna...

 Due to some really sweet friends of ours, I was able to go to Come Before Winter, a women's renewal conference in Brisbane, Australia the first week of March.  I enjoyed getting to meet ladies from around the Australia/New Zealand area mostly.  The study of Matthew was very encouraging and uplifting. Our 33rd wedding anniversary was March 11th, so we decided that this would be a good time to take a few days after my conference for us. Since we live on this side of the world, a trip to Australia is relatively inexpensive.  So after my conference, Rich met me in Gold Coast, which is at the southern end of Queensland, and we rented a car and drove south down the coastline for 4 1/2 days ending in Sydney, where we flew out of to come back home. It was a fantastic, refreshing trip.  God made the coastline of Australia beautiful and we thoroughly enjoyed it!  We rented rooms in people's houses along the way, which was also a fun experience.  An...

Some of our graduates got to come back for a time of study and fellowship on Thursday and Friday. We started Thursday morning with an hour of singing. Then, Veasna taught on Ephesians 4:1-6. ( I didn't get a picture of him on Thursday.) Then Borey taught on Ephesians 4:7-16.  Borey is one of our graduates working in his village in Prey Veng province.  He is an excellent teacher and has a good heart for the Lord.  Soklee then taught on Ephesians 4:17-32.  Soklee lives in Battambang province and he works with Sokun in their village. When Soklee first came to the school, we couldn't get him to talk at all.  He was so shy.  It is wonderful to see what a good teacher he has become. And he teaches with boldness. We ate lunch together and then in the afternoon, played some Bible games and just had a good time with the current students getting to know some of our graduates.  Friday morning, we started out with singing again.  It is encour...