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Wow! Life has changed!

This corona virus is having an impact everywhere.  May we all glorify God through this experience. Before talking about that, I did want to let you know that we had another Women's Night on Monday, March 16th (before any bans here).  We continued to work on Bible school material for children's classes.  We had about 25 ladies there.  And, I forgot to take pictures. Tuesday, the 17th, was the last day at CBI.  The government originally only shut down the 1st - 12th and preschools.  But then, in another couple days, we were told to shut all schools down.  We also have a ban on religious gatherings.  Currently, the powers-that-be are blaming Caucasians for the virus here.  No matter that the first case here was a Chinese man.  A lot of what are being reported  are tourists and Khmers (Cambodians) that are with them (like tour guides).  There are 12 cases of Khmer Muslims that went to Malaysia for a religious meeting of about 16,000 and they came back with it.  Today, Rich s

March is already here!

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 Hello!  First I need to wrap up our February. As you know from the last blog, my parents, Loren and Penny Hollingsworth were here.  Try translated for Dad both at the school and at the BEST Center.  This is a picture of Dad preaching at the University Church of Christ services one Sunday and Veasna is translating for him.  They flew back to Thailand on February 29th.  The plan is that they will leave to go back to the US on March 20th.  However, their flights have been cancelled as they were flying through South Korea, who has a number of people infected with the corona virus(most flights through Seoul have been suspended).  Dad is currently teaching Philippians in Chiang Mai.  They are looking for different flights to get them back as they both have doctors' appointments on Monday, the 23rd.  Please keep them in your prayers.  We think that they will be able (at this time anyway) to fly on EVA through Taiwan. Rich was teaching chapel one day this week and Nahkin decide