Rich and Ronda Dolan

On Valentines Day, some of the couples from the Capitol Church of Christ took a trip to Sray Ambel.   We had a wonderful devotional and day of fellowship and fun.  They grilled seafood for lunch that was delicious. Basically we had a great time together, enjoying the beauty of God's creation at the sea, not to mention enjoying being out of the concrete and busyness of the city. The weather was great.  The ocean is always refreshing!  A wonderful day with our Christian brothers and sisters. Just some sights around town. On March 2nd, I was walking to the post office to mail birthday postcards and this group came down the street. The police even blocked off traffic for them. There were probably 6-7 trucks as well as people walking beside. It is part of the Chinese New Year.  Rich saw some more yesterday even. There are 3 New Years celebrated here:  January 1st for International New Years; Chinese New Year, that is based on the Lunar calendar so changes, ...

I forgot to post about our Graduation on January 31st. We had 2 graduates.   The first one is Teang.  She is from Battambang.  She is now living back in Battambang and is teaching 5th grade.  Sokun, from her village of Romchek in Battambang Province recommended for her to come to CBI.  She was a good student and a sweet girl. Please keep her in your prayers as she has begun working back in Battambang.  She is attending the church in Romchek.  However, she is engaged and her fiance is not a Christian.  Please keep that relationship in your prayers as well. Our other graduate is Lymeng.   He has been around CBI all his life.  His aunt is Navy, Khemrin's wife.  Much of his life, he has lived at CBI with Navy. He is currently job hunting and would like to stay in Phnom Penh.  Please keep him in your prayers as he begins a new chapter of his life. Sokun, from Romchek in Battambang Province gave the message to our graduates...

January 7th was  National Genocide Day.  In the past, we have taken students to Toul Sleng, which is the high school that Pol Pot took over and used as a prison camp during the Khmer Rouge between 1974-1979. But this year, since some of our older students have already been to Toul Sleng, we decided to go to the zoo.   Here is part of the group with Rich mimicking the poses of our girl students.  The zoo is small but it was nice just to get out and walk around in the woods (instead of the usual concrete streets).   This is the place we gathered for lunch.  You are allowed to bring in your own food and drinks, so Navy prepared food for us. This is: Eang, Vatana, Rich, Neath (pronounced 'Nite') and Phorn (pronounced 'Poan') Lymeng (who will be graduating on January 31st), Ratana, Piset, and Rotha (pronounced 'Rota') Mony (busy eating), Sraynu, Savy, and Neera Sokray, Khai, Samathe, and Seyha At the zoo, there are monkeys everywhere. Which is all fine...

We hope you had a very Merry Christmas.  And we pray that this year draws you closer to God. On Saturday, December 27, we took all our students as well as Sokha (our cook), Khemrin, Navy and their daughter, Nakhin to a buffet for Christmas dinner.   Alex and Kira Mills from Batesville, AR, left some money that we used for this.  As well as Greg Fleming from Midland, TX.  Believe me, they were appreciative!!   We booked a private room so that they could sing karaoke.  Not really Rich and my thing, but they had a good time. We were teasing Sraynu about the pile of seafood shells that she had stacked beside her plate.  She is tiny! This is one of the tables. And this is the other table. Again, they loved it!  Thank you for your prayers for these students and the school.  And, of course, thank you also for your continued financial support. Khemrin gave his final in the book of Luke yesterday, December 31st.  He has been teaching Lu...