Broken Arrow Church of Christ

March 2, 2013

Hi, friends:

I hope you are staying warm and out of the snow. If it gets too cold there, feel free to come visit.

I am sure there are plenty of things to pray for there, but want to let you know some of what's on our hearts and minds here.

For CBI:
1. We've had a few bumps with a couple of graduated students being caught up in sin. Some correction and other help was given there. Thankfully, there's been repentance and change. Please help us pray that will continue.
2. You remember we had four graduate in December. Two are planting churches in their home villages (Chheoun reported teaching and baptizing one teen and his mother). One other is working with two fairly new congregations. This can be discouraging to them. Please help us pray they will be strong and courageous.
3. We have 4 more students graduating in March, two guys and two girls. One will work on the Ship of Life. The others are still trying to figure out what to do and how to serve. Please help us pray they will find God's will for their lives.

For Us:
1. Rebekah is getting married in June.   Please help us pray the marriage will be a blessing to them and an example to the world.
2. Reuben is getting married in August.  Ditto for his marriage.
3. Randall is deployed and will be for another 3 months. Please help us pray for his spiritual safety and growth along with his physical safety.

For the Church Here:
1. Lots of opportunities that are coming up. God's wisdom and guidance is needed.
2. It's such a young church (in terms of maturity). Please pray for continued growth.

Thanks for being our brothers, sisters and friends

Rich and Ronda

February 24 2013

Hey friends:

I know I don't always take time to keep you up on some of the progress of the gospel here. There have been some baptisms into Christ in different areas. Remember many of these are new works.

Theary was baptized into Christ Jesus our Lord a few weeks ago at the University congregation.

Last week, Chheoun baptized two ladies, a 16 year old and his mother, into the death of Jesus Christ. There are now those 3 Christians in his village in Svay Reang.

Today, KimSrauv baptized a lady in this village in Takeo. That makes 6 Christians there - KimSrauv, his parents, his younger brothers, one other lady and this new one.

Please continue to pray for the new Christians here.

Rich

 

Hi friends:

Quick update to tell you that my father-in-law, Loren Hollingsworth, is teaching a special class this week on the work of a preacher. (Loren has been a missionary and helped train preachers in Thailand for over 35 years. That's why I asked him to lead this class.)

I hoped it would be good for our current students. KInd of late, I had the idea to invite those who are out preaching now, as they would understand more and could really benefit. Right now 10 of them are back taking the class: Khim, Penh, Channy, Bora, Sovan, Kimsrauv, Chheoun, Borey, Vudt and one or two others are studying. Veasna is translating.

Please pray that this will be beneficial to the work here.

Rich

January 30, 2013

CBI Update

Prayer Requests/Concerns:
1. All the graduates and their various works.
2. Transitions while students graduate out to start their works & new students who come in.
3. Not been approved to receive a license for 15 passenger vans.

Students:
1. Student Body - Currently have 16 students. Had 4 graduate in December and added 3 new students in January.
2. Four graduate March 30th:
   - Sokchea will finish at the end of February.  He is hoping to work fulltime with the
     Ship of Life (run by Partners in Progress).
   - Tola, Markara & SreyTouch will finish at the end of March.
     =  Tola hopes to work independently & help the local church. The girls
         are considering various possibilities.
3. This will be the 10th group to finish training at CBI. 27 people will have graduated CBI

Classes:
November 19-23 – Evangelism Week
November 27-29 – Water Festival Holidays
December 3-21 – Jeremiah & Lamentations – Greg Fleming
December 3-21 – Spiritual Living & Ethics – Rich
January 1-25 - Revelation – Rich
                  - Basics Class for New Students – Veasna Tol
                  - Minor Prophets – Dennis Jan 28-31st –

Evangelism Week New Students:
Added 3 new students in January. Ponlu is about 18 years old and is a Christian. Chenda is a sweet girl about 19 years old. Pream is the son of a Christian family. He was baptized into Christ last Sunday at the Phnom Penh congregation. See their pictures soon on our blog.

Evangelism Week:
January 28-31st. We divided into two groups and went to 8 different places, most of which have CBI graduates working with or to establish local congregations. (Had to stop on Thursday because Friday, Feb. 1st through Monday, Feb. 4th are national holidays to mourn the King’s death and have his cremation.)

Teaching Graduates:
In late December, 5 of our past graduates, along with the 4 who graduated then, received the Bachelor’s degree that Sunset gives.

Graduates News:
1. Borey continues to work at planting a congregation in his village. They regularly have 15-20 adults and many teens come to worship.
2. Chheoun has moved to his village to start a congregation. They had 50 adults, many teens and many kids come to hear the teaching during the Evangelism Week.
3. GimSrauv is working to plant a congregation in his village. Right now, just his parents & younger brothers are Christians. We had 8 adults come to the teaching during the Evangelism Week.

Upcoming Classes:
Feb 4-8 – Practical Work of the Preacher (all day) – Loren Hollingsworth
Feb 11-March 1 – Galatians – Loren Hollingsworth
                      – 2nd Corinthians – Bob Jackson
March 4-29 – Church Growth and Planting – Rich Dolan
                - Old Testament History 1 – Dennis Welch
Apr 1-5     - Sacrificial Systems – Dennis Welch
Apr 8-10   - Evangelism Week
Apr 11-17 - Khmer New Year Holiday

I will spend much of February catching up the Admin stuff, meeting with & visiting the graduates & preachers, preparing for upcoming classes, language school, etc… Also, at the end of February, I will teach a short class at Sokhom Hun’s school. He is supported by the Walnut Hill congregation in Dallas.

 

December 21, 2012

Hi Friends:

Just wanted to let you know we had the 9th CBI graduation last night. It was a nice affair with a good attendance. Current students lead songs and prayers. Sovan (who graduated in Dec 2011 & who received a Bachelor's degree at the ceremony) spoke and encouraged the students to evangelize, even the face of persecution. Greg Fleming (who just finished teaching Jeremiah here), Dennis Welch, Tol Veasna and I stood in to represent the 16 Different Teachers who helped teach these men.

Graduates who received a CBI diploma are: Sem Chhourn, Lor KimSrauv, Phourng Chhaeut and Khoem Sokhorn. Those four men, along with former students Lor Sovan, Kom Sokun, Lot Soklee, Sou Sereyvuth and Dimm Borey also received the first set of Bachelors' Degrees we have been able to give.

Thanks for all you have done to make this possible.

Rich

P.S. Ronda will put up pictures on the blog - randrdolan.blogspot.com

CBI UPDATE

October 31, 2012

Students:

1. Student Body - Had 20 fulltime students, but 2 dropped out this month.
2. Four will graduate in December: Chhout – finished his studies this month; Sokhorn – finishes in November; Gimsrauv & Chhouern – will finish in December.
3. Graduation is December 22nd. This will make a total of 23 people who have graduated from CBI.

Classes:
October 1- 12 – New Testament Greek & start Luke
October 14-18 – Pchem Ben Holidays
October 22-26 – World Religions – Mark Hooper
October 22-November 16 – 1st Corinthians – John Breeden
October 29- November 16 – LUKE – Dennis Welch

New Students:
Of our two more students, Vanna Sum stopped studying at CBI. Vanna Heom is doing well. Plan to take on 4-5 new students after the group graduates in December.

Evangelism Week: November 19-23

Teaching Graduates:
Classes were Christian Family and (very basic) New Testament Greek.
Sept 6-8 (Thurs, all day Friday & Sat)
Sept. 27-29th (Thurs, all day Friday & Sat)
Oct 16-20 (Tues-Sat –All Day) This was during the big holiday break, kind of like at Christmas time in the US. All these grads gave up a lot of the holiday time to study.

This will allow them to receive the Bachelor’s degree Sunset gives.

New Drivers:
Many Khmers don’t have a driver’s license. We will lose many of the drivers for our weekend preaching trips at graduation time. Because we want to follow the law & insurance regulations, we have been helping the students get a license after they have been at CBI for a year. Several will take Driver’s Ed in Nov or Dec.

Upcoming Classes:
November 19-23 – Evangelism Week
November 27-29 – Water Festival Holidays
December 3-21 – Jeremiah & Lamentations – Greg Fleming
January 1-25 – Revelation – Rich
                  – Basics Class for New Students – Veasna Tol
                  – Minor Prophets – Dennis
Jan 28-Feb 1 – Evangelism Week
Feb 4-8 – Practical Work of the Preacher (all day) – Loren Hollingsworth
Feb 11-March 1 – Galatians – Loren Hollingsworth
                      – 2nd Corinthians – Bob Jackson

Graduates News:
1. Many of the graduates came back to study the extra classes in Sept & Oct. Ten studied the Christian Family and 11 the Greek class class. It was great to see them all and for them to be together.
***One added benefit – they really liked the idea of coming back together and seeing each other. We plan to offer some kind of get together for study, prayer, encouragement, etc. once every 3 or 4 months.
2. Kolab (June 2012 grad) took a job working with SNAK (the nutrition program started by Partners in Progress). She is focusing more on teaching God and following up with the families helped.|
3. Those who will Graduate in December
a. Chhout may work with a new plan to take care of a rubber plantation while he teaches & plants a church. This will allow him to become self-supporting.
b. Sokhorn plans to be a “travelling/local” evangelist, working with 3 congregations we have planted that are close together. Hopefully, they will be able to do much of his support between them. Currently, he travels there every weekend to work and teach.
c. Sovan will work with the church recently planted in his home village. Only his family are Christians right now.
d. Chhoeun wants to go to plant a church in his home village. He travels there (3 hour moto ride each way) every weekend to preach.

Prayer Requests/Concerns:
1. All the graduates and their various works.
2. Plans of the upcoming graduates.
3. Classes – that all the teachers will not only teach God’s word, but continue to model the Christian example that is so desperately needed here.
4. Insurance –still no resolution on the wall repair.
5. Not been able to find out about the license requirements for 15 passenger vans.

 

CBI Update

September 21, 2012

Students:
1. Student Body - We currently to 20 full-time students
2. Four graduate in December - Chhout, Sokhorn, Gimsrauv & Chhouern
3. We have now had 19 students graduate CBI – Sothea, Khim, Saleem, Veasna, Sophea, Chanty, Chheav, Try, Sovan, Soklee, Pisey, Sereyvuth, Sokun, Penh, Sopheap, Sokna, Vannat, Borei & Kolab.
4. 9 are working with churches (mostly churches planted by the work here), 2 are traveling evangelists, 2 are working with bible schools, 2 are helping at orphanages, 2 are wives of preachers and 1 is working in a ministry related area. (Some in dual roles).

Classes:
August 6-10 – Evangelism Week
August 13-31 – History of the Church in ACTS & 1st & 2nd Peter
September 3-28 – Hebrews & Ezekiel
October 1- 12 – New Testament Greek & start Luke

New Students:
We added two more students this month - Vanna Sum & Vanna Heom. Both are doing fairly well in their studies. They are both already Christians

Next Evangelism Week - November 19-23

Teaching Graduates:
You may remember that we are working with Sunset to give our graduates a Bachelor’s Degree. Our curriculum exceeds the required number of hours by quite a bit (120 to 140+ in most cases). But Sunset is requiring that we teach Christian Family and N.T. Greek in order to award a bachelor’s. So, Sept 6-8, met with 14 of our graduates and started teaching these classes. The plan was to meet one weekend a month until we finished. Because they desired to speed up the process, we will study again Sept. 27-29th. I appreciate Dennis teaching the current students all day on Friday so that I can teach the graduates.

Upcoming Classes:
October 14-18 – Pchem Ben Holidays
October 22-26 – World Religions – Mark Hooper & Phil Jackson
October 22-November 16 – 1st Corinthians – John Breeden
October 29- November 16 – finish LUKE – Dennis Welch
November 19-23 – Evangelism Week

November 27-29 – Water Festival Holidays December 3-21 – Jeremiah & Lamentations – Greg Fleming

Translation Book Update:

We received the Life of Christ books & study guides (translated into Khmer) right before I left for the USA in May. When I returned home, termites had eaten into 20-30 of the books. We bought new glass cabinets for the school and things are better. These books will be a huge blessing to the school and church.

Graduates News:
1. Borei (June 2012 grad) moved to his village to start a church. He currently is the only Christian, but reported 18 adults, 20 teens and many kids at the worship last Sunday. We have been sending out two students on the weekend to help him.
2.Sokun (Oct 2011 grad) and Soklee (Dec 2010 grad) continue the new work in Battambong. They reported 14 baptisms last month. (This is amazing. Many of these contacts come out of denominational groups.)
3. Sopheap (Oct 2011 grad) was working as a traveling evangelist. He has now moved back to his hometown, started pig farming and will assist Sokun & Soklee with the church in their village, hoping to start a church in his village soon.
4. Penh (Oct 2011 grad) recently joined Khim (Jan 2009 grad) as traveling evangelists. They do follow up from some of the camps here and also follow up at new churches planted.

Prayer Requests/Concerns:
1. 28 people baptized during the recent camp at TNT (14) and at the church planted in Battambong (14). That they will grow in the faith.
2. Borei, as he seeks to plant a church in his home village.
3. The wife of Neoun, a current student, just had a baby last week. Neoun studies at CBI while his wife lives in their hometown, about 5 hours away.
4. Insurance – some of you remember we had an issue where a student in reparking the school van, thought he was in reverse, but was in second. He cratered the van and cracked the wall. After a hassle, insurance has paid for the van repair, but have refused the claim to rebuild the wall and gate. Waiting for arbitration now.
5. Cambodia has apparently passed a law that only Khmers can have a license to drive 15 passenger vans. Since the school van, our van and the BEST Center van (Julie’s school) are all 15 passengers, this will affect us. At one time, we were told we would have to have a personal letter from the Prime Minister to skirt this law. (That’s about as likely as it snowing in Cambodia.)

July 5, 2012

New Books – Earlier this year, we finally received the Khmer translation of Richard Roger’s book THE LIFE of CHRIST. 2000 copies were printed and we received 500 of those for our use. Just a week ago or so, we received the study guides to go with that (1000 were printed and we have 250.) This is one of very few (if not the first) book on Jesus’ life in the Khmer Language. Thanks to all of you who helped make this possible. (These sell in the bookstore at a price the Khmers can afford. Thus, many people, including denominational leaders, will be using this book.) Rich

CBI Update

June 2012

Students:

1. Students – February, we added 3 new students. Two of those dropped out quickly. Sophal, the older married man is still with us. He struggles with the classes, but has a good heart. We also added Vanna in February. He is the older cousin of two of our students. In mid-June, we added Sopheara.
2. Graduation – Borey and Kolab both graduated on Saturday, June 16th. Borey will do some agriculture training, then plans to go to his village to start a church. Kolab may work with the Nutrition program, helping them to evangelize more. She may also work part-time at CBI, helping us with the girl students.

Check our blog: randrdolan.blogspot.com for pictures.

This makes 19 graduates of CBI!!

Classes:
February 27 – March 20– Psalms – Rich Dolan
March 7-27 – James – Dennis Welch
March 5-6 & 28-30 – Evangelism Week
April 2-13 – New Testament Church (all day) – Rich Dolan
April 16-20 – KHMER NEW YEAR HOLIDAY
April 23-May 25 – John – Bobby Deason
April 23-May 25 – Isaiah – Dale Lundy
May 28-June 1 – Evangelism Week
June 4-15 – 1st & 2nd Thessalonians – Dennis Welch
June 4-8 – Leadership – Dale Lundy
June 11-29 – Plan of Redemption – Rich Dolan
**All classes taught by Dennis and I are in Khmer

 

News:
Bachelor’s Degree- while in the US, I had a meeting and Sunset to continue discussions on us being able to offer the Bachelor’s Degree through Sunset. It looks like that will happen. Probably doesn’t make much difference to the churches here, but will help any of our students who want to also study at a university here and/or in a secular job search (especially our female students.)

Graduates News:
1. Sopheap (Oct 2011 grad) and Khim (Jan 2009 grad) continue to work as travelling evangelists. They will start going to some new villages where churches have been planted.
2. Sokun (Oct 2011 grad) and Soklee (Dec 2010 grad) continue the work in Battambong. They are completing a structure for the church to meet in. Before, they met under a tree, which is okay until rainy season came.
3. Sokna (Oct 2011 grad & wife of Sovan Dec 2010 grad) will be starting a small store in their village of Saing, with the goal to become self-supporting
4. Sothea (Jan 2009 grad) has gone off support from the local Phnom Penh congregations. That is not going well and is difficult for him. He has taken a local job to help support his family. That’s okay as the goal is get these men off any foreign support as soon as is possible.

USA Trips:
Welches were in the States from late March to the first of May, meeting with churches and talking about the SNAK. This program continues to add in the outreach and evangelism in Cambodia. The Welches are seeking funds to keep this going. Please contact Dennis if you have an interest.

Dolans gone from late April/early May; one week with Reuben in London, then on the USA. Our daughter, Rebekah, graduated May 12. It was great to be there with her and my parents on Mother’s Day.

 

 

 

February, 2012

CBI Update
Students:

1. New Students – You may remember we added 5 new students in November. At the start of February, we added 3 more. Sophal and Ngeit are both from Chhout’s (current student) village. Somnang is an older married man from a village. He plans to study during the week and travel home on the weekend. See pictures at our blog http://www.randrdolan.blogspot.com/

2. Class for New Students: Just started a class for newer students (7 all together) that Veasna is teaching. It meets during the time Loren is teaching Daniel. The thought was that it’s better for our new students to get some basics. This is Veasna’s first class to teach at CBI.

3. One on One Meetings: Dennis and I met with the students one on one this week. This was to go over their progress and help map out a plan for them.

Classes:
January 2-27 – Philippians and Epistles of John – George Carman
                  – Gospel of Mark – Dennis Welch (in Khmer)
January 30-Feb 3 – Evangelism Week
February 6-17 – Characteristics of Jesus – Bob Jackson
February 6-March 2 – Daniel – Loren Hollingsworth
February 6-March 2 – Bible Basics – Veasna Tol

Evangelism Week:
Last week, we went out to 8 different villages. We were able to split the students into two groups. (Glad to have use of the van the Welches helped procure for CBI and the SNACK program.) 7 of those villages don’t have a church meeting there now. Pray that God will bless this effort with new church plants.

Graduates News:
1.Veasna (June 2009 grad), Chheav (Dec 2009 grad) and Try (June 2010 grad) have all been helping to translate.

Upcoming Classes:
February 20-March 27 – Psalms – Rich Dolan (in Khmer)
March 5-6 – Evangelism Days
March 7-March 27 – James – Dennis Welch (In Khmer)
March 28-30 – Evangelism Days
April 2-13 – New Testament Church – Rich (all day class)
April 14-20 – KHMER New Year holiday
April 23-May 25 – Gospel of John – Bobby Deason
April 23-May 25 – Isaiah – Dale Lundy
June 4-22 – 1 & 2 Thessalonians – Dennis
June 4-22 – Scheme of Redemption – Rich

USA Trips

Welches plan to be in the US from the end of March to the first part of May. Dennis will be presenting information about the SNAK program at the Pepperdine Lectures.

Dolans plan to be in the US from late April/early May for about a month. Our daughter, Rebekah, graduates from A&M in the May 10-12 weekend.

Guests:
Kayla Maynard – January 15th -March 18th (Dolans)
Bob & Sandy Jackson – Feb 3rd-Feb 21st (Welches)
Loren & Penny Hollingsworth – early Feb to March 6th (Dolans)
Ron & Shirley Downey – Feb 16-28 (BEST Center)
2 Brothers from Vietnam – Feb 23-25 – Hotel
Rebekah Dolan – Most of April we hope
Bobby Deason & Dale Lundy – Late April to late May
Aggies for Christ Group – Month of June
Sierra & Asia Hollingsworth (our nieces) – Mid June to late July
YOUR NAME – Whenever you can Come

February 7, 2012

These are pictures of the baptism yesterday. The girl wanted to study English, but didn't pass the entrance test. So, instead, she studied the Bible with Sereyvuth. Sereyvuth is a June 2011 graduate of CBI who now works with the University church part time.

   

Rich

CBI UPDATE

December 2011

CBI Update Students:
1.   New Students – After the late October graduation, we added 5 new students. They are Piseth (a brother of Navy’s friend), LiHeang (a friend of Kolab), Hunah (a brother of Phally), Rodthah and Sophy (a friend of Sokhorn). Sophy was homesick and left CBI. The others seem to be doing well. See our blog http://www.randrdolan.blogspot.com/ for pictures.
2.  Other changes:  Rathana left the school in December. We hope he will come back, but don’t know. One of the realties here is that of the students who start the program, only about 2/3 finish. We hope to add two new students, from our waiting list, in January.

Classes:
November 6-13 – Water Festival and Independence Day Holidays
November 14- December 17 – Matthew – Doug Reeves (Sunset)
(Tray Khim Try, June 2010 graduate, translated)
November 14-Dec 2 – Historical Christian Evidences – Rich Dolan
Dec 5-17 – Cross of Christ – Rich Dolan

New Drivers:
Many Khmers don’t have a driver’s license. With the recent graduation, we lost most of the drivers for our weekend preaching trips. Because we want to follow the law and abide by insurance regulations, we have been helping the students get a license after they have been at CBI for a year. 4 students completed Driver’s Ed this month. They had to go every day at 6 a.m. 3 more are taking driver’s ed during the break.

Graduates News:

1.  Sovan (Dec 2010 grad) has had 4-5 baptisms at Saing during the past two weeks.
2.  Sokun (Oct 2011 grad) and Soklee (Dec 2010 grad) have started working together planting a church in Battambong. You may remember that Sokun used to be a pastor in a denominational group.   He reported 11 baptisms from that group in the first week he was back teaching.
3.  Sothea (Jan 2009 grad) has gone off support from the local Phnom Penh congregations. He is set up in pig farming to support himself. As far as I can tell, he is the first self-supporting/local church supported preacher in Cambodia. Please keep him in your prayers as there will be some bumps in this transition time.
4. Sopheap (Oct 2011 grad) and Khim (Jan 2009 grad) have teamed up to do follow up work with the churches at TNT and Sang Sok. The Sang Sok congregation was started this year. The church leaders there are Vannak and Sophy, former part time students at CBI. They currently work full time at the English school there.

Upcoming Classes:
January 2-27 – Philippians and Epistles of John – George Carman
                  – Gospel of Mark – Dennis Welch
January 30-Feb 3 – Evangelism Week
February 6-17 – Characteristics of Jesus – Bob Jackson
February 6-March 2 – Daniel – Loren Hollingsworth
February 20-March 27 – Psalms – Rich Dolan
March 5-March 27 – James – Dennis Welch

Miscellaneous:
January 7th – Wedding in Siem Reap of Sokchea Lork (Tawn’s youngest brother and a former CBI student) and Pisey (1st female to graduate CBI - December 2010)
January 6th – to go with that, the Siem Reap congregation is hosting a meeting for church leaders in Cambodia. This is a chance to discuss the work here.
January 28th – Wedding of Sokun (Oct 2011 graduate) in Battambong.

Guests coming:
Kayla Maynard – January 15th - March 18th
George & Hilda Carman – December 31st to January 30th
Bob & Sandy Jackson – Feb 3rd-Feb 21st
Loren & Penny Hollingsworth – early Feb to March 6th

USA Trips:
Welches plan to be in the US from the end of March to the first part of May. Dennis will be presenting information about the SNAK program at the Pepperdine Lectures. Dolans plan to be in the US from late April/early May for about a month. Our daughter, Rebekah, graduates from A&M in the May 10-12 weekend.

 

CBI Update

October 31, 2011

Graduation:
We had a great graduation Saturday night. 70-80 people joined with us as Sokun, Penh, Sopheap, and Sokna all received their certificates. (Vannat, the 5th student, decided to wait to receive his certificate until he finishes make up classes next month.)
1. Sokun will do some vocational training to farm and then plans to start a congregation in his village in Battambong.
2. Penh and Sopheap want to help the local church while they do vocational training. They are starting to work with Khim (2008 graduate) in following up with local congregations and efforts.
3. Sokna will join her husband (Sovan, Dec. 2010 graduate) as he preaches in Saing,
4. ****Vannat will train to farm and see what opportunities come up.

Students:
1. Student Body - We had 21 full time students.  As these 5 leave, we will add 5 more to take their place.  We currently have about 6-8 who want to come.
2. We have now had 16 students graduate CBI - Sothea, Khim, Saleem, Veasna, Sophea, Chanty, Chheav, Try, Sovan, Soklee, Pisey, Sereyvuth and now Sokun, Penh, Sopheap and Sokna.

Classes:
October 3-28 – Apologetics (Evidences for believing in God)– Rich Dolan
October 3-28 – Biblical Interpretation – Dennis Welch (this was Dennis’ 2nd class to teach in Khmer.  Praise God for his progress in the language skill.

Evangelism Weeks:
November 1-4 (Oct. 31st is a national holiday for the former King’s birthday).
Tuesday – Throul Pang Petrea and Lvea ( new place) - 2 groups
Wednesday – ChomChou (Chheav’s place) & Sang Sok – 2 groups
Thursday – Rang Dak ( Home of Vuth, Vath, SreyMom, Makara, Tola, Srey Thouch and Sokchea) Friday – Around CBI and the Best Center – 2 groups

Upcoming Classes:
November 6-13 – Water Festival and Independence Day Holidays
November 14-December 17 – Matthew – Doug Reeves (Sunset) Tray Khim Try, June 2010 graduate, will translate
November 14-December 2 – Historical Christian Evidences – Rich Dolan
December 5-17 – Cross of Christ – Rich Dolan

Visitors Coming:
We had lunch with the Welches today and talked about some of our coming visitiors. Here’s what I remember:
November 3-December 12 – Doug & Marge Reeves are coming (Marge will leave on November 11th.) Doug will teach at CBI.
November 14-23 Welches will have an elder and his wife from the States
November 17-26 – Nathan and Wendy Lee will be with us from the Broken Arrow Missions Committee.
December 5-18 – Dennis’brother, Doug Welch will be here.
December 27-Jan 12 – A family from the church who oversees the Nutrition Program will be here with the Welches.
December 31-January 30 – George & Hilda Carman will be with us while George teaches at CBI.
January-March (?) – Kayla Maynard, a soon to be Harding graduate, will be with us while she teaches at the BEST Center. Kayla was a teen in our youth group at Broken Arrow and is a dear family friend.
February – Bob & Sandy Jackson will be with the Welches for two weeks while Bob teaches at CBI.
February – early March – Loren & Penny Hollingsworth will be with us while Loren (my father-in-law) teaches at CBI.
February – Kim Binkley, from the Broken Arrow congregation will be here with us.

 

CBI Update - October 6, 2011

Students: Veasna (June 2009), Chheav (Dec 2009) and Try (June 2010) continue rotate translating at the school when we need it.

1. Student Body - We currently have 21 full time students and 3 part time students. The part time students all have full time jobs, but attend CBI either in the morning or afternoon.
2. Five will graduate at the end of October - Sokun, Penh, Sopheap, Sokna and Vannat. Sokun plans to start a congregation in his home village (see below), Penh and Sopheap want to help the local church while they do vocational training, Sokna will join her husband (Sovan, Dec. 2010 graduate) as he preaches in Saing, Vannat is undecided about what he will do.
3. We have now had 12 students graduate from CBI - Sothea, Khim, Saleem, Veasna, Sophea, Chanty, Chheav, Try, Sovan, Soklee, Pisey and Sereyvuth. Most of these are working in ministry or related areas.

Classes:
July 22nd to August 5th - 2 week break
August 6-12 - Evangelism week; August 14-19 – 7th Habits of Effective Christians (I taught all day); August 22-September 2 – 1 &2 Timothy and Titus - James Glasscock taught for six hours each day. James is a preacher in Troy, New York.  He previously preached in Texas & was a missionary in Russia.  Jimmy was one of our teenagers while we worked in San Angelo, TX.  It was great to have him here.  September 5-23 – Colossians/Philemon - I taught for 3 hours each day.  September 5-23 – Dennis Welch, my co-worker, taught Ephesians in the afternoon. This was his first class to teach in Khmer.

New Students:
In August we added three new students - Srey Mom and two others. The other two decided CBI was not for them and left.  Later, we added Kakada.  We now have 5 students on a waiting list, but don’t have room for them.  (Most of our students live and eat at the school.)  We will add more students at the end of October, when 5 graduate.  In early June, we added 2 new students. Rathana & Phally.

Evangelism Weeks:
August 5th -12th - Keep in mind that the law forbids us to go door to door to teach about Jesus.  
Saturday, August 6th-Tuesday, August 9th - Took all the students up to teach in the Battambong area, about 180 miles away (In Cambodia a province & the capital city of a province usually have the same name. Like Oklahoma City and Oklahoma.)  All these places below are within 5 miles of each other.  Channy’s and Soklee’s are less than a mile apart.
Sunday, we taught at Sokun's father's house. (Sokun will graduate in late October. He plans to move back to this village. His father was an elder in the denominational church there but was kicked out of the church in a conflict.) Many of the denominational people came. There must have been 60 adults and 80 or so kids. It was great. I think Sokun can convert that entire group. Sokun played keyboard & was a “pastor” there before he came to CBI.  Most of them have left the denominational group they were with.
Monday, we taught at Soklee's house and Channy's area. At Soklee's house, the boys actually taught in an abandoned New Apostolic Church building. Soklee's father had been one of the elders there. Channy's group did a good job going house to house. Channy hopes to move back there next year. He is married and has a baby (named Rebekah). He will finish up his bachelor’s in law.
Soklee is one of our graduates who took training to repair motos. He works now with Chheav at the church started in the Chaom Choa area of Phnom Penh. Soklee could move back to the Battambong province sometime in the new future. He is one who wanted to start chicken farming on his father’s land. The family will care for the chickens and split the profits with him. I looked over the area and talked with him and his family while we were there. I gave him the $400 for start up costs. We used some of the vocational money given by individuals at Broken Arrow to help with this effort.
Thursday August 11th
a. Throul Pang Petrea – New village we have been teaching at. – Rich and 9 students.
b. TDT (name?) – Veasna & Nutrition Truck have been going to. Dennis and 9 students.
Many were busy in the rice field. Had some talks and studies. One 16 year old girl baptized.
Friday August 12th
a. Chom Ju – Chheav’s – about 8 students and Dennis b. Sang Sok – Vannak and Sophy’s – 14 workers plus Doris, Vannak and Sophy. Broke into 4 or 5 groups to visit and invite people. Started teaching at 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Two who wanted to be baptized (one Veasna and I studied with). Afraid or unable to travel. No place there. One came the next Sunday to PP church and was baptized there.

Next Evangelism Week - November 1-4, 2011 (4 days) Asian Mission Forum: 
Ronda and I attended the Asian Mission Forum for the first time, July 30th to August 3rd.   It was in Thailand and was the 50th anniversary.   Over 250 missionaries from all over Asia were there.  It was really good to be able to go.  The North Heights church in Batesville provided most of the funds for this.

Upcoming Classes: October 3-28 – Apologetics (Evidences for believing in God)– Rich Dolan
October 3-28 – Biblical Interpretation – Dennis Welch
November 1-4 – Evangelism Week
November 6-13 – Water Festival and Independence Day Holidays
November 14- December 17 – Matthew – Doug Reeves (Sunset)
November 14-Dec 2 – Historical Christian Evidences – Rich Dolan
December 5-17 – Cross of Christ – Rich Dolan

CBI 2010-2011 Overview:

1. Student Timeline:
August - Added 1 New Student - Choeut
September - Added 3 New Students - Sokhorn, Chheun & Sokhat (Sokhat quit)
October - Added 1 New Student - KimSreav
Dec – Tawn died late in the month
January – Added 1 New Student - Sokchea
Late January – Added 3 New Students – Tola, Makara and Srey Thouch
February – Sokchea, Tola, Makara & Srey Thouch were baptized into Christ.
March – Took students to Siem Reap Lectureships.
April – Evangelism Thrust – 2 Week Campaign
June – Added 2 New Students – Rathana & Phally. Took the students on a retreat with the Texas A&M students.
July – Rathana and Phally were baptized into Christ

Started the year with 13 full time students. 4 students graduated during the year and we ended the school year with 19 full time students & 3 part time students

2. Graduations:
December 2010 – Sovan Lor, Seng Pisey, Soklee Lot (3)
June 2011– Sereyvuth Sou (1)

3. Evangelism Weeks – September, October, Feb, March, 2 Week Evangelism Thrust in April, July. We are scheduled to have evangelism weeks in August, November, January, Februay and May. We started trying to go out in 2 groups each day and were able to go to several new places.

4. Churches started:
Throul Pang Petrea - The Nutrition truck began going there and Veasna started studying with people there. We’ve gone to help in that effort and send students to teach.
Kam Pot - This is a little further away (about 2 hours travel), but is the home of Vannak. We’ve been down three or four times on Evangelism Weeks and other times. Four were baptized into Christ. We have been sending Vannak and one or two students each weekend.
Sang Sok - This is the location of Doris, Vannak and Sophy’s school. They started a church that meets in the school. We send students to help as well as visit during Evangelism weeks.

5. Previous church plants:
Odem – Chheav moved this congregation to another place (Choum Chou) that has many more people in the area. Soklee, a December graduate, moved in with him and is working with him.
Saing (Try’s Village) – This is still a small congregation. Sovan (Dec Grad) moved there in February to work with the congregation. He recently married Sokna (Try’s sister and a CBI student).
Vuth’s village – church still going strong. Have about 30 attend. Vuth moved there in June to begin working with the church fulltime.
Krang Dong – Sothea (Jan 2009 graduate) works with this congregation. Still a small & weak church. They did send Chhout to study at CBI in the fall of last year.

6. 2010-2011 Graduates:
a. Sovan is working full time with the church at Saing and doing pig farming as a vocation to help support himself.
b. Soklee took training repairing motos. After that, he moved to help Chheav with the church plant at Choum Chou.
c. Pisey moved to Siem Reap to work with the orphanage there. She plans to marry Sokchea (Tawn’s brother and a former CBI student) early next year.
d. Vuth graduated in June and moved to work with the church planted in his home village (Rang Dak). That congregation has sent 5 current students to CBI.

7. Upcoming Graduates – We will meet in August to talk more about their plans
a. November 2011 – Sokun, Sopheap, Penh, Sokna (2nd female graduate) & possibly Vannat. Several of these are from Battambong province and hope to go there to start the church.
b. Spring 2011 – Borey (male) and Kolab (girl)

8. Publisher – Translating books into Khmer
a. Used the translated Paid in Full (Romans) books in Feb class. Didn’t have the study guides in time. We received 25% of the 2,000 books and 1,000 study guides produced. We gave 25 copies to Sokhom Hun and 40 copies to the school at Siem Reap.
b. Started the Khmer translation of Life of Christ (same amount of books & study guides.) Should be finished by September 2011. With Batesville’s promised $4,000 contribution and the $600 give by Rebekah and the college students, we will be within $2,000 of the cost needed. Broken Arrow will raise the remainder.

9. Visiting teachers:
a. August–December – Ken Fox (longtime missionary) – 1 class, John Breeden (Elder and Ken’s friend) – 1 class, Mark Hooper (Missions Resource Network) – 2 short courses, Dennis Welch taught 2 classes, Tawn Lork taught 1 class, while I taught 3 classes (in Khmer).
b. January-June – Loren Hollingsworth (Missionary to Thailand) – 1 class, Dale Lundy- regular class and a short class, Tim Brumfield (Sunset instructor) – 1 class & 2 week Evangelism thrust, Bobby Deason – 1 class (in Tawn’s place) and Ron Downey (from Sunset) – 1 class
(c) In addition, Dennis Welch taught Sacrificial Systems, a short course (Humanity of Christ), Old Testament History and a short course on Ezra, Nehemiah & Esther. I taught Church Growth and Major Biblical Doctrines. Also taught a short course on Sermon Preparation.

10. Miscellaneous:
a. Tawn’s death was obviously a big blow to the school and to us personally. It has been a blessing though, to see so many people step up to help. And, to help guide our students through a difficult time, helping them learn to depend more on God.
b. Navy, Tawn’s wife, continues on at the school helping to handle the finances and bill paying. She also is a kind of dorm mom.
c. Veasna, Chheav and Try (all CBI graduates) have all helped tremendously in sharing the translating, helping with editing the books, etc.
d. Two of the part time students work together full time with Doris Morrison (another Christian) at a school teaching English. Doris told them to stop studying at CBI for now, in order to work on their English skills for teaching.
e. Julie’s work at the BEST Center (Bible English Study and Training) continues to go well. Sometimes a couple comes and while the husband teaches at CBI, his wife teaches at the BEST Center. The University church of Christ continues to meet at the BEST Center.

Thanks for all you do for the God’s Kingdom here.

Rich

 

CBI Update

June 29, 2011 Classes : April 25-May 25 – Bobby Deason taught ACTS (in Tawn’s place
April 25- May 20 - Dennis Welch taught O.T. History 1.
May 23-June 17 – Ron Downey taught O.T. History

Part 2.
May 26-June 17- I taught Major Biblical Doctrines (Father, Son & Holy Spirit).

USA Trip :
April 26-May 24 – It was great to see and be with so many people while we were in the States. Wish we could have visited with you longer. We started with our son, Reuben’s, graduation at Pepperdine, travelled to Broken Arrow, then on to Arkansas to see our daughter-in-law and then on to North Heights in Batesville. We did enjoy another week in Broken Arrow, then on to our son’s in Abilene, with a side trip to San Angelo. After that, it was on to Midland to my parents’50th wedding anniversary celebration. It was really good to see so many of you on the way. Thanks for all you do to encourage us and to help the work here.

Graduates News:

Thanks go out again to Veasna, Chheav and Try who continue to rotate translating at the school when we need it.

1. Vuth graduated on June 12th - He actually finished his course work at the end of April, but wanted to have the graduation after Ronda and I got back. Vuth immediately moved to his home village, Rang Dak, and has begun his full time work there. Please keep him in your prayers. (Pictures to follow later.)
2. Sovan, December 2010 Graduate and Sokna, November, 2011 graduate – It was my pleasure to join them in marriage on the Saturday after we got back (May 28th). Sokna plans to stay in CBI until she finishes. Sovan has a full time work at Thoul Thrarang. Please keep them in your prayers during their time apart. (Pictures - later.)
3. Soklee, December 2010 Graduate - has completed his vocational training. He has moved out to Chheav’s house and will work with Chheav in the church started there.

Evangelism Weeks:
July 4-8 – It will seem weird to be out teaching on July 4th, but for some reason, they don’t celebrate our Independence Day here.

New Students:
In early June, we added 2 new students. Rathana is the older brother of Navy’s friend. Phally is a cousin of Navy. Both have the deer in the headlights look that is common among our new students. But, I think they will do well.
Classes :

We are currently on a 2 week break, but will resume again with the Evangelism week July 4-8.
July 11-22 – I will teach a Sermon/Lesson Prep Class (Herman Alexander was scheduled to teach, but had to have a surgery instead & could not come.)
July 11-22 – Dennis will teach on Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther.

Retreat:
June 17-19, we took all our students, along with the Aggies for Christ who are here, on a retreat to Siem Reap. It was a great trip and really good weekend. (In case you did not know, our daughter, Rebekah and 6 of her college friends, have been here for 5 weeks. They are teaching at the BEST Center about 10 hours per day. It has been a joy to have them living with us.)

Special Request:
Dennis Welch, my co-worker, has been working hard to increase his language skills. He plans to teach Ephesians in Khmer this coming September. Please encourage him and lift him up to the Father in prayer.

 

CBI Update April 11, 2011

Happy Khmer New Year!!!! The New Year Holiday is actually April 13-15.   However, everyone takes the week off and the city really empties out. Guesses are that 2 million people from Phnom Penh travel to their home villages during this time.

Classes :
February 7th to March 11th – Loren Hollingsworth taught Romans & Dale Lundy taught the Wisdom Literature (in Tawn’s place).
March 14-18 – Dale Lundy taught an all day, one week class on Leadership. Mid March to April – see the Evangelism Classes and Campaign below.
April 25-May 25 – Bobby Deason will teach ACTS (in Tawn’s place) & Dennis Welch will teach O.T. History 1.

Bobby’s filling in for us will allow Ronda and I to make it to our son’s college graduation and to my parents ’50th Wedding Celebration. Thanks to all these men for teaching and sharing their lives.

Evangelism Classes and Campaign Weeks:
From March 21 to April 1st, Tim Brumfield has been here teaching on Evangelism.  We are in the middle of two weeks of Evangelistic efforts (with the New Year in between.)  Here is what the first week looked like.  Please keep in mind that the law forbids us to go door to door and forbids us to pass out literature, both of these under the threat of prosecution. Many of our students were scared about trying to talk with people. They were afraid we might be put into jail, but we found that it would work and was okay.

1st Week: Monday, April 4 – BEST Center Area - (All students, Veasna, Chheav, Try, Dennis, Tim and I – around 25 total)
Tuesday, April 5 – Thoul Thrarang – Try & Sovan”s Village, our first time there (All students, Veasna, Chheav, Try, Dennis, Tim and I – around 25 total)
Wednesday, April 6 – Sang Sok -Vannak’s & Sophy’s area in Phnom Penh, our first time there. Changed from Friday – partly due to fire at factory out there and the chance to minister to those affected by it. (All students -Minus Kolab and KimSreav who were sick, Veasna, Chheav, Dennis, Tim and I – around 20 total)
Thursday, April 7 – TPP (Trapeang Putrea) New Place, our first time there. About 12 people went there. Two who had studied with Veasna in the past, were baptized into Christ. 2 more on Sunday. NEW CHURCH there now. & TNT – About 12 went there. Sokun taught 14 adults at TNT, Makara & Kolab taught about 30 kids. Vannak, Sokorn and others taught many at Sokorn’s house, 2 other groups went out.
Friday, April 8 – CBI Area (Changed from Weds) (All students minus Vuth, Penh & Sokna. Also, Veasna, Chheav, Tim and I – around 18 total) Many were sick, tired and dragging.  Lunch and stopped – afternoon party at the BEST Center for Khmer New Year.   (Had around 100 at the BEST Center Party. One lady who came to the party came to worship Sunday. She was baptized into Christ Sunday night after studying with TRY.)

April 9-17 – Weekends and Khmer New Year

2nd Week:
Monday, April 18 – 1. Rah (Pisey’s) – changed this to Monday so Pisey can come) 2. Vannak’s home or Rang Dak
Tuesday, April 19 – Chheav’s Area (Phnom Penh)
Wednesday, April 20 – BEST Center Area(Phnom Penh)
Thursday, April 21 – Possible places – Rang Dak, KSP, Krang Dong, Vannak’s, ….
Friday, April 22 – CBI Area (Phnom Penh)

Graduates News:

I want to highlight 3 of our graduates who have helped with translating and with the campaign weeks. They all have their own works too, but they are filling in and helping. We would be lost without them. 

1. Veasna, June 2009 Graduate, has been a great help in many ways. He translated Dennis' classes on Sacrificial Systems and on the Humanity of Christ in January.  Also he translated the all day class on Leadership for Dale Lundy.  In addition, he has done a lot of the arranging, etc.. for the Campaign weeks. Like all the men, he also helped check the Romans book and study guides we had translated into Khmer.

2. Chheav, December 2009 Graduate, translated Loren’s  class on Romans in February and  the two week, all day every day class on Evangelism for Tim Brumfieild.  Chheav also went out with us every day of the  Campaign.  He also helped check the Romans book and study guides.

3. Try, June 2010 Graduate, translated Dale’s  class on Wisdom Literature in February and will translate the upcoming ACTS class in late April to late May.  Try went  out with us several days of the  Campaign. He plans to study more over the holidays with 5 people at his village who are close to believing. In addition, he studied with and baptized the lady last night (from the BEST Center area.)  Try also helped check the Romans book and study guides.

May the glory be to God who raised up men to fill the gaps.

March 17, 2011

Hi from us:

Great News!  Attached is a picture of Try (June 2010 CBI graduate) baptizing Vannak, a man who studied at the BEST Center (Bible English Study and Training) yesterday. Ronda's sister, Julie, runs the program at the BEST Center. Try is the local preacher for the church that meets there.

If you would like to read more and see more pictures, please visit Julie's blog at juliebroyles1.blogspot.com.

Rich

P.S. Here is the message Julie sent out and her blog address if you want to read more and see more pictures.

March 5, 2011

Graduates News:

1. Sothea - graduated 2 years ago. We are at the end of our 2 year “internship” with him. The problem is he is not ready to stand on his own as self-supporting yet. He has married and has a young son now.  So, the plan is to help him get 3 more pigs (he has two already) and give him 5-6 months’ salary to tide him over until the pigs are producing enough to support him.  At that point, he will be on his own. As far as I know, he will be the first self-supporting preacher here.

2. Sovan – graduated in December.  He moved to Saing, the village where we started a church several months ago. It’s also the home of Try (2010 graduate) and Sokna (Fall 2011 graduate).  He is working hard for the church and in setting up a pig farming business.  He seems to be more assertive in this than Sothea was.  We are all learning from mistakes made.

3. One of our first graduates took a job working with the Nutrition program formerly sponsored by Partners in Progress.  It recently came out that he was skimming money for himself from the sale of bicycles.  He had to be fired from his job.  Please pray for him that God will turn his heart and he will continue to seek God.

Upcoming Graduates:

1. SereyVuth (Vuth) is set to finish his studies in late April.  We will put off his graduation ceremony until June, after we return from the U.S. Vuth plans to study computer repair and technology while working with the church started in his village.  (He is the guy from the article “God and a Bicycle” that I wrote a couple of years ago.) There is a strong core of adults at the church in his village.  Also, we have 4 new students at CBI from his village.

2. Fall 2011 Graduates – You may remember we had several graduate in 2009, then just one each time in December 2009 and June 2010.  Finally we had three more graduate in late 2010.  June will see only Vuth graduate.  But, in late October, five students are set to complete their studies: 

Sokna – sister of Try and fiancé of Sovan (cf. above)
Penh – from Battambong, great student
Sokun – from Battambong, former keyboardist in a denominational church
Sopheap – from Battambong, good student
Vannat – from TNT area

***** Peng Soirn would have finished, but he dropped out last month.

Evangelism Week:      January 31-February 4

This was our first effort without Tawn’s help. He was so vital in lining up places, making arrangements, teaching, etc... But, others filled the gap and we had a good week.   Three of the days, we divided into 2 groups and went to two different places.   Veasna, a 2009 graduate, has been doing a great job of locating new places to teach. We were glad to be able to help him in that effort.

Evangelism Classes and Campaign Weeks: - in March and April, Tim Brumfield will be here to teach on Evangelism and help us with a 2 week campaign. We will have to vary the things we do, due to government laws and regulations, but look for this to be very fruitful. Please pray for this effort.

Books:  - We received the Romans commentaries in early February. They have been helpful to our students as they study Romans. Also, we gave 25 copies to Sokhom Hun for use in the Church of Christ school he teaches at. And, we gave 40 copies to the church school in Siem Reap.  These books are in the local Christian book stores. And, they will be offered at ½ price to church leaders at two big denominational conferences this month. The full price is less than $3, trying to keep it affordable for the Khmers.  

Thanks for all you do to help the work here.  Please keep us (teachers, students and church) in your prayers, as well as the special needs listed above.

Rich

January 19, 2011

Hi, friends:

As you can imagine, it’s been really busy here, but I am passing on some of the good news we have.

1. Schedule:  Obviously, Tawn’s recent death leaves a big hole in our plans.  Here are some of the teachers and translators who have pitched in to help.

   January
     Church Growth and Planting – Rich -  in Khmer
     Sacrificial Systems and then The Humanity of Jesus. -- Dennis Welch Veasna
     Tol, a 2009 graduate is helping to translate for him (filling in for Tawn).
   Febuary/early March:
     Romans --Loren Hollingsworth.  Chheav, a Dec 2009 graduate, translates 
     Wisdom Literature - Dale Lundy (filling in for Tawn).
     Try, June 2010 graduate, translates
   Mid March:  One week seminar class 
   Late March to Late April –
     Evangelism Tim Brumfield was already coming to teach and help us
     with a campaign.  Not sure yet how the translating will work.
   Late April to Late May
     Acts - Bobby Deason (for Tawn).  Not sure yet who will translate 
     Old Testament History I – Dennis Welch  Not sure yet who will translate
     **Dolans to the USA for son’s college graduation and parents’
       50th anniversary celebration

As you can see, we are trying to spread out the translating so that it doesn’t overburden anyone. All these men have their own works to work at also. 

2. Student body - our student body continues to be fluid. 

 > You may recall we added 4 new students in the early fall. One chose to stop studying,
    but the other three (Chhouet, Chourn, Sokhorn) are doing well.  
 > We also added Phearea and GumSreav in late fall. GumSreav is doing well, but
    Phearea quit the school right after Tawn’s death. 
 > The December 2010 graduates were Pisey (first female graduate), Soklee & Sovan
 > This month, we added 4 new students, all from Vuth’s village. They are Sokchea
    & Tola (guys.)  Makara and Srey-Touch (girls).  Makara and Srey-Touch were
    baptized into Christ on Sunday, January 16th.  See Welches blog for the story
    and pictures:
      http://missioncambodia.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/the-angels-in-heaven-are-rejoicing/
 > Our current student body in class is 17 fulltime students and 4 part time (married
    students), with 2 additional students who are doing vocational training.
 > We also have several students who are still in their two year internship/training
   with us.  They are all out in various places preaching and teaching.

3.  Paid in Full (Romans) Book and Study Guide Translation

Many of you are involved in helping with this project in many ways.  This project was to be completed by December 15th. Our publisher ran into some snags because they had two edit/checkers who quit.  They asked to postpone the final completion to January 15th. Then, Tawn’s death added a delay on our side. Tawn was the main one to review this work for us (we review it and make changes before it is printed). I have been blessed to have others step in to help.  Veasna, Try & Chheav (all CBI graduates), along with Chann and James (two of Tawn’s brothers) have all taken sections to review. They have done this on their own time and in addition to their own works. We still hope to have the books ready for the Romans class in February.  What a blessing to have so many men qualified and willing to help. May our God be glorified and many be taught through this effort.

Know that you have a part in everything good that happens here.  May our LORD continue to crush Satan through you in everything you do.

Rich

Hi friends:

Just want to catch you up a little on what we're doing here. 

1. Evangelism Week was last week.  We made plans to go to 5 different locations, but because it is right smack dab in the middle of rice planting time, two of the places had to cancel.  I never even thought of that.  I'll catch you up later on the other three places.  Our students went to the home of Try and Sokna (where we planted a church), to Sothea's village (where we started a church two years ago) and to Vuth's village (where we started a church a year ago or so).

2. Student body - our student body continues to be fluid. 
    a. You may recall that Vadt did not come back from the summer break. He came, with his mother, a week ago to plead with us to take him back into school. We did on a probationary basis.
   b. You know we added Chheut in August. He seems to be doing well. 
   c. Because we had room, we have added 3 other new students this week. 
      -  Chheun Sem is the brother of a local Christian. He does not know much about the bible.
      -  Sokun Baram is from a local village and was recommended to us.
      -  Sokhat is from Rang Dak (the home of Vuth and Vadt, where we starte