FCOPI Admin Archive

From Nothing to Everything

Most people call me Krew Savang. I received Jesus in the year 2000 through FCOP and I am blessed to serve as an FCOP pastor in Siem Reap Province. As our God is more powerful than any other god, I have seen many miracles and have many testimonies of God working in people’s lives. I have learned how to move in the power of the Holy Spirit to break up demonic strongholds. Recently, I was able to meet and pray for a 61 year old woman named Cheoun who has 5 children, aged from 24 to 31 years old. She …  

Grace

Grace is a whole lot more work than law. It’s pretty easy to throw someone under the bus because they don’t meet your standards. We have become known as “easy” on sin. Well, the truth is that we are easy on sinners. I’ll never forget our FCOPI board member, Bethy Barone, stepping off the speaker’ s platform, the first time I met her at a meeting in Bangkok about eight years ago. She looked me in the eye and in front of a 100 or so pastors asked me, “Would you baptize a homosexual?” I didn’t know what to say. …  

We Are Family

Kids from sixty some churches and home groups came to study music and dance with us this summer. It was truly transformational! They came in shy and afraid and left filled with confidence and new skills. Sunday, Sept 25th was graduation day. They made it special as they shared song and dance. Now, they go to infect a nation.  

Revival

There seems to be a new revival spreading, along with the release of the teaching coming form the preparation and distribution of the “Catechism” (A small book explaining the basic beliefs) for the churches. Mak Sou started teaching specific aspects of it to the Young Lions and the Womens Ministry Leaders of multiple churches and it has started a fire even before it has been widely distributed. Reports of healings, deliverance, baptisms in the Holy Spirit, and water baptisms have been coming in from various places on a regular basis.  

Havest Time

Great rice, lousy price. I believe we have some of the best rice in Cambodia, but we were hurt by lack of water control during a critical growth stage. Still we have a much better crop than I have seen elsewhere. But, it does show that the rice farm development program is crucial to our long-term sustainability. The strange thing is that with a generally poor crop in Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand, the price is 1/3 less than it was a year ago. Many farmers are protesting, by blocking roads with their equipment, and in danger of losing their farms …  

Hep B Vaccines

We continue to work diligently on our Hepatitis B vaccination program. It is an important step as this is a potentially fatal disease if left untreated. A not so funny thing is that Tim and Dhana Wimberly received all three of their shots before they came to Cambodia, but when they had their blood checked they showed no resistance to the disease. I had the same problem 18 years ago! I’m beginning to wonder about US vaccines?? I was vaccinated here and my resistance is very high. Anyway, Thanks for the help!! We cannot do this without you!  

New Cafeteria

  Cambodia gets its share of droughts and floods but thankfully we are free of earthquakes and typhoon. We do get some strong gusts and one of them destroyed our cafeteria at the Dam Na Thmei Church/Home. We sent our own crew up there this month and it is now rebuilt along with a couple of new bathrooms.  

God’s Love is Our Hope

Hello, my name is Phon Sitouch but people usually call me Touch (too-wich). I work full time with FCOP as a data support analyst, helping track and administrate the documents for FCOP’s 106 church homes taking care of orphans and separated children. I am so pleased to share my life story as God has blessed me with a testimony of restoration. After I was orphaned at a young age, I was rescued and taken in by FCOP when I was 15 years old. I am the eighth child out nine in my family. When my parents were alive, we were …  

Healthy Kids = Healthy Futures

What’s a rice crop have to do with building a church and protecting thousands of young Cambodians from “Human Trafficking”? We always knew that Thany and his two younger brothers, who were raised at FCOP, were prime victims for human trafficking but I never really understood the depths of his emotions until we sat down to do a short video (see video here and please feel free to use this video in any way that will help defeat this common enemy of the human race). As for Thany, he could use some math lessons! He realized after the fact, that he …  

First Rice Planting of the Year

Who would have thought that in the midst of the worst drought in a hundred years, we’d have a problem completing our rice planting because it is too wet and muddy? Three prophets stood over me in February a pronounced, “The drought is broken!” Because of that, I was inclined to plant in mid April but all the experts were warning farmers to hold off planting until July. When I asked that we start planting all the farmers in our rice farm village seemed to be in agreement, “Don’t do it! Rice seed is very hard to get and it …  

Cambodia’s Golden Rule

One of the great commandments of Cambodia is: “Thou shalt build higher than thy neighbor!” Church homes we built fifteen years ago in remote areas of their prospective cities have seen development surround them. Even though when we built the homes more than a meter of fill was hauled in to raise them above flood grade, everyone in the area who built always adds at lest half a meter more fill than the neighbor. Even though Cambodian roads are rife with signs explaining that it is illegal to build higher than the roadway, it is the most thoroughly ignored law …  

Same Church, New Dirt

Living Water Church from Olympia Washington came to the rescue they hauled in truckloads of fill and built a dike around the Our Kachey church home in Battambang, Cambodia. Working like slaves, they hauled hundreds of cubic meters of soil to build a dike around the church home, that 15 years ago was built higher than the road, which now it is almost two meters lower than the new construction nearby. The first floor of the church rapidly becomes a lake when the rains fall. Thanks Team! Hopefully, the church will be dry!