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Busy Week!

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 We started off a busy 10 days with the wedding of Channo and Sraydte. They are both Christians and members of the Phnom Penh Church of Christ.  Sraydte, the bride, became a Christian because she is from the village of Borey, one of our graduates. Borey taught her as she was growing up, and was converted. Then she came to Phnom Penh to go to the university and met Channo.  Channo studied and became a Christian as well. They are both now working here in Phnom Penh. The venue you see in the picture is a tent that is set up just before the wedding and by the time we were leaving town, they were already taking it all down. I took this picture because the MC of the wedding told her to kiss the groom.  (They don't kiss each other at the same time.  In fact, they don't really kiss at all.  They just put their face beside the other.)  She was really embarrassed and didn't want to do it.   In this picture, she ended up kissing his hand.  A minute...
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CBI Christmas Dinner

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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 ...
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Church Camp and Thanksgiving

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 Every November, during our Water Festival Holiday, we have a nation wide all-ages church camp.  This year it was November 14 - 17.   This is the main camp picture.  There were about 200 people attending. This is the group that came from Phnom Penh.   The theme this year was Duties and Responsibilities of the different groups who make up the church, like leaders, elders, youth, parents, etc.   A few more pictures from camp. Rich teaching his lesson to the entire group.  His topic was on the Duties and Responsibilities of Elders in the Church. This is the 'old ladies picture'.  That is what they called it.  As you can tell, I am substantially older than any of the other ladies in this picture! Just a picture of some of our group. The girl in front in the bright green shoes is Teang.  She is one of our students.  Please keep her in your prayers as she was in a motorcycle accident.  The doctor she saw wants to wait ...
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Flooding in Battambang

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Sokun and Soklee are 2 of our students who are working in a village in Battambang.    We are incredibly proud of the work they have done for the past few years.  They are very active in their community.  They did a lot of teaching and helping during Covid.   The church there is growing.  They have a wonderful reputation among the people there.  When we were there last, several people let me know how much they are doing for their village as well as being leaders in the church.  They have classes for all ages of kids.  Every Friday night, a group of teenagers meet at Sokun's and sing for an hour or so as well. Sokun is now the village chief.  All the villages, even the areas in Phnom Penh, have a village chief that takes care of the needs of the village, etc. I sent to Sokun a few days ago after I saw his post about the flooding, and asked if, on top of prayers, they had particular needs.  He told me food and fresh water. This is...
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Our house

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 I thought since my last post was about our street, I would show you our house.  (I don't think I have posted that before).  We live in a áž•្áž‘ះáž›្ážœេáž„ translated is a 'long house'.  Land here is extremely expensive but labor is cheap; so you buy a small plot and build up.  Our house is skinny and tall.  Each floor has 2 rooms and bathrooms. We'll start at the street.   As you can see, our gate sits right on the street.  Our street is the main street through the neighborhood. This is the repairman, wearing a motorcycle helmet with face shield, while he welds the new part on the bottom of our gate. (Isn't that regulation eyewear for welding??) You can see our new incline, so that we can get the truck and motorcycle in and out.  Before, it was too steep.   This is the area between the gate and the "front doors".  The doors are accordion style so that we can open them up all up and get the truck out. Also, many Khmers will run so...
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We have concrete!!!

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OK.  It may not seem like a big deal to you, but I am so excited!!! These are pictures of the process.  I assumed that they would redo the road in the same order as they tore it up.  But, for some unknown reason, this little strip in front of our house is getting cement FIRST!!   For those of you who have been here, they repaved the road on our side of the temple and behind the temple.  But from there all the way down to us is still dirt and gravel.   Here is all the rebar that they laid.  I missed getting pictures of them painstakingly tying the rebar cross sections together with wire. This is to show you the cliff at our gate. I am standing in the street before the paving begins.  The red tile is our entry.  You can see why we couldn't get our truck out since there is a drop of about 16 inches. These ladies are at the end of the area that will get cement.  They are tying off the ends of the rebar and making sure the board bar...
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