Evangelism Week

 If you have been reading this blog much, you know that we have several Evangelism Weeks each year.
During this week, Rich and Dennis divide out the students and each group goes to a village.  So, in the course of the week, they can go to 10 villages.
Some of these village are places where there are already churches established and some are new places or places that our students are from.
Typically, they leave early in the morning and  drive to the village (this has been prearranged so they know the students are coming)When they get there, they walk down the streets
meeting and talking with people and then they meet together a few hours later.  They arrive back in Phnom Penh in the late afternoon.
These pictures are just pictures I took in the countryside, so that you can see some of what they are seeing each day.
The 2nd picture is of a small city along the highway.  The village that we go to are much smaller and more remote.
Much love, Ronda

PS.  With President Obama here, it is causing some trouble.  There are road blocks coming into the city and in some places, if you are Cambodian, they
won't even let you in the city at all!  Fortunately, with Rich and Dennis driving, they have been stopped but then allowed to come on into the city.  Much of the north part of the city has roads blocked of.  They went to a great deal of effort to clean up the trash, get the people off the the streets (people begging, kids selling things, etc).  We certainly want to put up a good (false) front for all the visiting dignitaries.

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