FCOPI Admin

August 31, 2015

Our Focus

FCOP has been in Cambodia for 17 years, for one focused, unchanging, purpose: to see Cambodia come to Christ. Everything we do is predicated on that mandate. That’s why we do all of the things that we do, beginning with sharing the good news of Jesus Christ in every Church service all over the country, to planting new congregations. This month saw about eight new church/groups started. Several thousand came to Christ. There is a method to our madness!

August 31, 2015

Continual Training

FCOP puts a great deal of effort and money into pastoral training. This month Mak Sou taught her way to exhaustion, fainting at the end of the hot, humid, fourth day of training, while I was in the United States. All is well, and the result is trained pastors going back to every province and training pastors. We are finally getting close to a comprehensive pastoral training curriculum. Oh happy day!

August 31, 2015

New Buildings

A lot of people discount the importance of church buildings, but a building brings a permanent presence, a focal point for the community, a place for gathering and training, a place to care for the hurting, the sick and the separated to find care. Sure, buildings cost a lot of money, they can burn down and be stolen, but they can also last 500 years! We began two more new church buildings this month and have another in progress.

August 31, 2015

New Hope

We show the love of God in practical ways. Why? It is hard to get hurting, sick, or hungry people to pay much attention to your spiritual persuasions if you don’t have something material, either in substance or in power to offer them. We sent four local Cambodian teams out to help congregations, paid for with Cambodian money, located in hurting communities. It’s tough out there when 90% of your people are farmers, and you are in the second year of drought. Our teams brought the needed element to survive; help that produced, “Hope”!

August 31, 2015

Power In Action

If you are trying to preach a God without the demonstration of His miraculous power you are more than handicapped! Often there is no doctor, money, or medicine available. We use our God given authority over the works of evil and often see wonderful results. Sure, not everyone we pray for is healed. But we’ve seen entire villages come to faith with a single healing or miracle. This month blind eyes were opened, the deaf heard, cancers died, the lame walked and haemorrhaging stopped. All of these contribute to building the Kingdom of God.

August 31, 2015

Fight Trafficking

Fighting “Human Trafficking” is the current ‘hot button’ for funding NGO(Non-Profit) growth, quite frankly the legend is not the reality. The truth is that most so called “Trafficked” young women in Cambodia are simply, uneducated, country girls or single moms who have to make a living, and care for their extended family. The option of working in a Garment factory for 10-12 hours per day, six days per week, and never seeing their family isn’t very desirable. It’s much easier to work the “Sex trades” making more money, going to work at 8:00pm, coming home at 3:00am, grab some sleep, and spend time with …

August 31, 2015

God’s Provision

I’d just call it common sense, but in retrospect, I believe it was God that I heard months before this years drought, saying, “Store up food for a drought.” Through our partners at Reach Now International, Children’s Hunger Fund, Feed My Starving Children, Glad Tidings Church, Butte County Rice Growers, Dave Wilkinson, and others we have been stockpiling rice meals all year. Even if we harvest a good crop of rice many farmers are finished. They simply have run out of money and time to replant. We now have the ability to withstand this drought, and help some of the hungry. The kids love …

August 31, 2015

God is Still God

I had been in a “Downer” type of mood; our rice crop had died, the new crop needs continued rain, multiple donors had reported going through everything from heart attacks, to law suits, to having employees betray them, to about every kind of terrible attack imaginable. Our entire staff spent considerable time praying both in the Spirit and in the natural for them every morning. It wasn’t as though I’d lost my faith in God, but self doubts began to creep in; “Your time is over!” “Your donors are all going to desert you!” etc, etc. Then a convergence of events renewed me. It was …

August 31, 2015

Not Our Problem

I talked to my brother Bob, who is a retired farmer, farm equipment salesman and mechanic. He runs his own business repairing, restoring, buying, fixing and reselling old farm equipment. He’d been in a hard time as well. He explained how he’d been complaining to the Lord. God asked him, “Do you trust Me?” Bob answered, “Yes.” God repeated the question, “Do you trust Me?” My brother again answered, “Yes Lord, I trust You”. Then the Lord asked him again, “Do you trust Me?” Bob, frustrated, answered with some conviction, ” Yes! I trust You!” Then, God simply asked him, “Then, what’s …

August 31, 2015

Dominion

Albert Einstein defined insanity as, “Doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.” Since we have replanted rice after two consecutive failures to drought, I suppose that would qualify us as certifiably nuts. We simply hope the weather is different. Please continue to pray for rain in Balang, Cambodia! But, we are grasping for our sanity; we have a plan. God said to Adam, “Take dominion over … every living thing…” So we are taking dominion over the control of water on our rice with a dike and moat system that will provide water for an entire crop and …

August 15, 2015

Little Lady, Big Faith

El Sim, our little 4 foot 6 inch apostle, has few Biblical miracles that cannot be attributed to her ministry. As far as I know, no one has seen her walk on water yet, although she does seem to make it. There are few wells on her island of 100,000 souls. The geology of the sub-soil is like a block of cheese, there is no lateral movement of subterranean water. God told her to dig a well on her property. She asked, “Where?” and the Lord responded, “Anywhere on your property. Dig it eight meters deep and you’ll have water.” …

April 30, 2015

Five Suns in Battambang

It’s been a Mark Twain month: “I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.” In my word’s, “Weird!” There were five suns over Battambang on April Fool’s Day, and it was no joke (click here to see video footage). Obviously, it was caused by some strange atmospheric optical effect, but all the local shaman claim it’s a “Bad omen!” Since our God loves to prove them wrong, it must be good news! It definitely stirred some emotions and fears and induced a time to pause and reflect on Luke 21:25 & Matt 24:5-7. We’ve got “Blood Moons,” plenty of wars, …