Nation Wide Church Camp

Our nation-wide church camp was Sunday, Nov. 6 through Wednesday morning, Nov. 9th. 

We had 206 campers;it is the biggest group we have had.  We were excited to get to meet together again after missing 2 years due to Covid.

Our theme this year was Handling Conflict in the Church.

Rich taught opening night.

This is a picture of our CBI students with a few extras as we were getting ready to leave CBI for camp.  

The camp is in Kompong Speu.  Due to the new highway, it only took a couple hours to get there.

If you notice that everyone has on lanyards.  We are in work crews by color.  The boys in this picture are two of our students, Buntheoun and Phalim, on food prep.  


The food lines get long, like every camp! 

This is CBI students:  Sonah, Mai, Gimson, Jenthra, and Srang.

Every day there were soccer games during the free time.  Here is some of our group getting ready to cheer on (the girls) or play (the boys).  They are wearing our new CBI soccer shirts.

Funny thing, on Tuesday, they let 2 teams of girls play.  They moved one goal to almost midfield (the field is small anyway) because "the girls aren't able to run the full field".  I asked, and this is the answer.  Our girls didn't play although I know that they have played the BEST Center girls in Phnom Penh.  

Food prep.  
The sun rising on a new day.
This is the entire group.  We had a great group and it was such a blessing to get together to sing, worship and be together after 2 years.


These are some of our graduates that are now preaching in their villages.

Piset, Borey, (Rich), Kakada, Chouern, Sokun, Soklee, and Nuon.  It was great to get to spend some time with them!

This is my favorite breakfast!

Rice with pork, eggs, and then a vegetable mix.  The fruit is white and red dragon fruit.

Avy, the cook, even saved me some of the leftovers for later.

And as Rich started off the camp, Khemrin, who works with Rich and teaches at CBI, had the last lesson.




A few more pictures (that are out of order).

More food lines.

As I mentioned, we were on work crews.  Three times a day, your group either were on:

- dish washing

- food preparation and serving

- cleaning bathrooms

- trash detail

Rich and I were in the orange group, who won the award for the BEST GROUP!!!!  Woohoo!

This is part of our group riding the "trash truck".  We gathered trash from all over the camp and then we rode on this cart out to the dump.


This is my class.  I had the "old" women; age 30 and over.  My class changed a bit because there were several of this age that were teaching on different days.

These are sweet ladies that I wish you all could know.  

Sunrise on Day 2. 
This is the cafeteria.  They put these green mats on the concrete floor.  Everyone takes off their shoes at the end of the mats and then files in.  


This is our CBI students, along with Khemrin, Navy and their daughter Nahkin.  We love these sweet kids.  Keep them in your prayers that they may serve the Lord all of their lives.

Pray for us that we will be the examples that they need to help in their walk.

Much love,

Ronda
 

Comments

Rich and Ronda said…
Great blog, Ronda.You deserve a raise!
!!
Kev said…
So cool to see church camp in another country! God Bless Y'all!

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