Rich and Ronda Dolan

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...

 As is my custom it seems, I once again am behind on blogging.   In my last blog, I talked about Simeon and Roseann being our guests for a week. After they left, we headed for the 10th annual country-wide Church Camp.  This is a picture of our entire group. Our theme this year was "What every Christian should know about sex".   As the bulk of the Christians in Cambodia are between 18-30, and as most are new Christians, this topic was selected as it is important for them to understand what the Bible teaches.  Steve Holladay came to be the keynote speaker.  His son, Griffin, as well as Robert Ables and Kyle Gilmore, from Whites Ferry Road in West Monroe, LA, also came.  We enjoyed being able to meet them and visit with them for a few days.   Honestly, I was a little concerned about the topic, especially with a speaker from the US, since the culture and the background of the people here is quite a bit different.  But Steve did a g...

 Our new students have been at the school for a few weeks now and are settling in.  Unfortunately, Gimhuot and our newest students went home.  Hong also is at home.  He was sick before he came and continued to be sick at CBI, so he has gone home for now but intended to return. Next week, on Tuesday, we will be going to our annual camp.  It will last until Friday.  It is a great time to be able to see Christians from all over Cambodia. We had a couple stay with us last week.  He is from South Africa and she is from the Philippines.  They have been married 2 years and are looking for a ministry place.  They are visiting Thailand, here, and Vietnam.  Their names are Simeon and Roseann.  Please pray that they will find the work that God has designed for them to do. One another note, there have been a couple funerals in our area lately.  I thought you might like to see their 'hearse'. Typically, they put the deceased's picture in a ...

 The last blog I wrote about our new students, but now we have more!!!  In fact, if we weren't full, we could have several more.  Wondering where all these kids are going to sleep is a great problem to have! Rich took their pictures, so I will share them with you.  Please keep all of them in your prayers.   Like I said, I mentioned some of them in the last blog.  Seyha - he is from Battambang. He is 19 years old.  His older sister and brother are graduates from CBI.  His family worships in the village of Romchek in the church that 2 of our graduates, Sokun and Soklee, started there. Neera - (I am going to give you my phonetic spelling of their names instead of how they spell their names in English letters.  I almost always say their names wrong if I go by their Enligh spelling.) Neera is also from Battambang and is 18 years old.  She is a cousin to our student, Teang. (I don't think Rich was too worried about how good the pictures w...