Starting off 2018 with a bang!

 Actually we had 2 baptisms on Sunday, December 31st. 

This is Lemaing and Sraynij.  Lemaing is the nephew of Navy, who is Tawn's widow (for those who have followed us all those years) and who keeps the books for the school.  He is 15 years old.  He lives with Navy.  His mom lives in Pursat and has 3 other children. 

Sraynij is the daughter of James Lork, the preacher at the Phnom Penh congregation.  She is also 15 years old.

Please keep these 2 in your prayers; that they will keep God in their hearts and walk with Him daily.
 January 4th and 5th, we had graduate meetings.

This is a picture of one of the 2 tables at lunch.
We always enjoy getting to see some of our graduates that come back.  And it is an encouragement to listen to the preach and hear how they have grown spiritually. 


The theme was Parables of Jesus.

This is Piset
 Soklee
Sothea.

Also teaching were Kakada, Sophea, and Sokorn.



















 Friday night, we have a party and play Bunco.  This is the group that was able to stay and play.  There were  a couple who couldn't make it or had to get back to their villages.

It's just great to get to spend time with our "kids".
 Scott Keele and Jerry Lundy got in Saturday, Jan 6th. 

Unfortunately, somewhere along the way, Jerry got a bug and did NOT have an enjoyable Saturday night/Sunday morning.

Sunday afternoon we (minus Jerry who stayed in bed) loaded up and went to the countryside for Borey and Phany's wedding.  Borey is one of our graduates.

Borey is not in this picture, but Phany is.  This is a group of us from Phnom Penh.
 Please pray that Borey and Phany will lives their lives to God's glory and be examples of how Christians should live and what a Christian marriage should be like to those around them.
 The "billboard" behind them is 2 huge pictures of them with scriptures on marriage at the bottom.
 As with all weddings here, everyone is fed.  Here is a picture of the food. 

This is Piset and Dara.  They both work at the BEST Center and are members of the University Church of Christ.
On top of water and coke, we were given this soybean drink. It is 100% soybeans with no other ingredients.  It looks like a slightly yellower skim milk and is slightly sweet.  It wasn't bad.

Scott Keele is teaching James in the mornings at the school and Jerry Lundy (who is feeling much better!) is teaching I and II Peter in the afternoons.


John Ward and Alex Mills from the North Heights congregation in Batesville, AR will be getting in tomorrow and we look forward to showing them around Cambodia.

Much love,
Ronda

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