Thany

September 30, 2022

How Are Lettuce, Tuna, and Pa Thom’s Sanity Related?

If you have been following FCOP, you are aware of the fact that we have believed that for several months that people have been cursing the FCOP leadership here in Cambodia. We also believed we had a very upset territorial spirit at our Balang rice farm, and that these were very nasty, demonic attacks. On August 2nd, FCOP Int. Board President Sonny Weimer, arrived in Cambodia to find a very agitated Pa Thom. He was ranting about the rice crop dying and church property being stolen. He was barking and chopping off heads all over the place! Even Naret, the …

August 31, 2022

The Father’s Love

Pastor Savang Leads Communion Communion usually makes me sad. I don’t often cry, but as I think of Jesus on the cross; tears begin to flow. I know it is the consummate act that freed me from the devil’s control. I should rejoice; but the price He paid? Beyond comprehension! Yet, I learned something from my Cambodian son, Thany. His sermon this past Sunday taught me something that I’d never seen before. Jesus suffered because of the love His Father had for Him! It was the Father’s love for Him that led Him to the cross. Can you believe that? (John 10:17-18) …

August 31, 2022

What’s This Crazy Old Geezer Doing?

This Guy Is Crazy! The question on everyone’s mind that they are afraid to ask: “What are you still doing on the mission field in your 76th year? I mean most people have been retired for at least ten years at your age!” The truth is that I am about to embark upon the most ambitious project of my life! These are tough times, but tough times are an opportunity to show how strong our God is! There was a time when the promised land was occupied by giants. Did Caleb run? No! He took the mountain when he was …

August 31, 2022

Roads

No one knows the value of a road until they are broken. Fifty-four years ago, when I was a young “volunteer” in rural Laos, during the hottest year of the Vietnam War, 1968; the “war that wasn’t going on”, was also peaking in Laos. At that point, the USA still believed we could win the war if we could just develop the economy. That’s why I was there. “Teach them how to grow two crops of rice instead of one,” was my mandate. I soon learned that growing the rice was the easy part. What to do with it after …

August 31, 2022

Finally!

Paul Mok stands in front of our new stainless steel ‘shaker box’. For 21 years we have been using, patching, and constantly repairing the same old worn-out rice mill. The beast has been slowly bleeding us out for a generation! It was so worn out when we got it, that the engine would not run. We figure it was built around 1980 with used components from Vietnam. We bought it from the owner, who was dying of AIDS back in 2001, disassembled it, and moved it to Balang. Why? Because we were getting so cheated by the Chinese rice millers. …

August 1, 2022

What We Do Best!

Of all the things I love to write about, nothing gives me more pleasure than to report on the dozens of new Church Home groups started each month. I know there are many we are missing and I apologize to those pastors! FCOP simply doesn’t have enough people and good enough cameras to capture all the great work they are doing in establishing the Kingdom of God in Cambodia by destroying the works of the Devil. We can report hundreds of salvations, healings, deliverances, baptisms in water and in the Holy Spirit. Honestly, we can’t even keep count of them all. Remember your sacrifice is not unnoticed in heaven! May God Bless You …

August 1, 2022

The Best day of His Life!

Bill Norton just had the “Best Day of His Life”! (I know, except for the day he received Christ.) He died. A lot of people will ask you at some point, “What was the best day of your life?” Some will say, “The day I got married”, others, “The day my first child was born” and still others, “The day I opened my own business”. But none of those are true if you are a Christian. Solomon, the wisest man to ever live, said this: “A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one’s …

August 1, 2022

Prophecy Fulfilled

Here is a prophetic word that is coming true. Bill Norton said, “Your resources should start coming from Cambodia”. That’s why we seek to develop the rice farm. But, the above photo shows it is already happening. Pictured is a group of some of the senior church leadership from Siem Reap and Bantemeanchy provinces that I went to teach early in July. They are standing in front of a new building being 100% paid for by Cambodian members of the Siem Reap congregation. They are building a larger auditorium. With the balcony, it will be capable of seating 800 people. This new building …

August 1, 2022

Dream Big!

Before Joshua could establish God’s kingdom in the Promised Land he had destroy the enemies strongholds. Battles easily won are shortly remembered. Perseverance can be hard to muster when you are constantly bombarded with the constant question: “When does the, ‘Good News’ arrive?” 2022 has been a year of challenge. First, no fertilizers, then, no pesticides and the diesel fuel doubles in price. Next, it rained during the end of the dry season and the rain stops in what should be the rainy season. Finally, the rivers run dry during the crucial reproductive stage of the rice plant, and we have to stop irrigation, then …

August 1, 2022

Bit Off More Than We Can Chew!

In the Bible Jesus talks about counting the cost before you go to war. (Luke 14:28) But, some wars are forced upon you. Did you ever begin to restore a vehicle or remodel a house out of necessity, thinking all it needed was some minor repairs and a coat of paint, only to discover it was totally shot? You find yourself over your head! You have too much invested to quit, but not enough money left to complete it? Well, welcome to our “Rice Mill”! What began with just the replacement of a few bucket elevators and a new shaker box has …

August 1, 2022

It Never Ends!

Nature takes its course. The “Second Law of Thermodynamics”, my version: “Everything, eventually turns to crud”. Revengeful, fired pastors wreak havoc on their abandoned buildings, acid rain eats away at concrete and steel, sewers plug up, gates break, floods devastate; I think you get the idea? Anyway, there is always more to do than we have resources or manpower to pull off. We look forward to a return to teams, we could sure use the help! But, regardless of the decay, we accomplished much this month.

July 1, 2022

“When the Elephants Fight the Grass Gets Trampled”

Sanctions, boycotts, lockdowns and export controls are supposedly designed to hurt an enemy and protect the local population. However, after being caught in the middle of what appears to be an attempt to escalate the world into an economic catastrophe over a virus, only Denmark, a small country with intelligent leaders, and a group of African nations that take anti-malarial drugs with chloroquine, have navigated well and come through with low mortality to become the first countries to avoid shutdown. Why are the Elephants so stupid? Now, the US and the EU, through NATO, seem to be pushing the world …