Rich and Ronda Dolan

International Women's Day is March 8th.  The BEST Center always hosts a seminar on that day. This year, Bhee Jirojanakul and his wife Gradtae came from the Soi Somprasong 4 congregation in Bangkok, Thailand.  (The congregation that I attended when I was young).   We were thrilled they were able to come and spend several days with us as they are sweet friends. There were several different groups of people from all over Cambodia.  I think there was about 130-140 people in attendance. (I took this picture before it started; the empty chairs did fill up!) Bhee did a great job teaching.  I always enjoy it when he is preaching while I am in Thailand.  Lunchtime!  Those of us old timers used chairs to sit on and eat!! We enjoyed getting to spend the weekend with Bhee and Gratdae.  Usually we see them in Thailand, but they are busy with work.  Bhee is one of the ministers at Soi 4, so is they are some of the main ones involved in the annual coun...

Jerry Lundy from Broken Arrow was able to come and teach at CBI for 2 weeks.  He taught on Ephesians. This was his 5th trip to Cambodia.  He also taught one course online to our students during Covid. We are grateful that he is willing to come and share God's Word with our students.  They enjoy getting to hear different teachers and we think it is good for them to hear different teaching styles. Khemrin translated for Jerry while he was here. The class.  (Like students everywhere, the back row fills up first!)   The weekend that Jerry was here, Rich officiated a wedding in Battambang.  Som-ang, the groom, and Kimleang, the bride, now live in Phnom Penh.  They are members of the Capital Church.  She is from Battambang City. Please keep them in your prayers as they start their lives together.  Pray that their faith will grow and be stronger as they work together for the Lord. Just a note:  while we were there, we stayed in the Classy Hotel...

 January 25th, we had another Ladies' Night.   They play the silliest games. This is probably a better way to wear masks - as a blindfold!   This is Sopheak.  I forgot to get a picture of her while she was teaching.  She did the devotional talk for this month.  She did a great job.   On Saturday, Feb. 8th, Rich and I went to the hospital to visit Kemchhouy, one of our graduates. He was playing soccer and torn his ACL.  His surgery went well.  On Sunday, his brother and a couple cousins helped him get back to Battambang Province where his family is from.  He will be there for a month, unable to work.   He is a electrical engineer for the electric company here. He was in a semi private room (no other patients were in there at the time).   As we were leaving, I took this picture.  On every floor, there are beds and patients in the hallways.  This is cheaper than having a room.   Also in...

 I thought you might like to see who you are praying for.  So let me introduce you to our students at CBI. These are 3 of our girl students.  Teang is not in the picture because, as I told you a few blogs ago, she was in a motorcycle wreck and had to have surgery on her ankle.  Her mom came and took her home - to Battambang Province.  We had expected her back before now, but her sister got married and, honestly, her mom doesn't really want her to leave.  She told us that she would be back this week. Sraynu, is in the yellow shirt.  She is 19 years old. She is from Kompong Cham Province.  She is the oldest of 2 in her family.  Her dad is a farmer and her mom sells in the market. Sokray is in black.  She is 20 years old. She is our newest girl student.  Bahn, one of our newer boy students was a friend from their village and encouraged her to come.  She is from Kompong Thom province. She is the 2nd of 4 kids in her family and her ...

 On Tuesday, the 7th and then on Friday, the 10th, we had 2 more weddings. Actually, they were for the same couple.   This is Bondeth (groom) and Socheat.  They are both members of the church here in Phnom Penh.  They were both students at the BEST Center and that is how they met.  They wanted to have a wedding with their Christian family on Tuesday, before having the normal Khmer wedding to appease their parents in the village. Please keep Socheat and Bondeth in your prayers as they start their lives together. I was so proud of them for wanting to have their Christian family together for their wedding.  During their vows, both of them talked about their desire to follow God in their lives and marriage together. This is a picture of the wedding in Kompong Cham.   (You should see our truck!  The road was terrible!) This is outdoors.  These are tents set up at the bride's house.   I took this picture from my seat.  Just...

 We started off a busy 10 days with the wedding of Channo and Sraydte. They are both Christians and members of the Phnom Penh Church of Christ.  Sraydte, the bride, became a Christian because she is from the village of Borey, one of our graduates. Borey taught her as she was growing up, and was converted. Then she came to Phnom Penh to go to the university and met Channo.  Channo studied and became a Christian as well. They are both now working here in Phnom Penh. The venue you see in the picture is a tent that is set up just before the wedding and by the time we were leaving town, they were already taking it all down. I took this picture because the MC of the wedding told her to kiss the groom.  (They don't kiss each other at the same time.  In fact, they don't really kiss at all.  They just put their face beside the other.)  She was really embarrassed and didn't want to do it.   In this picture, she ended up kissing his hand.  A minute...