Sou and I were both in shock. We were seated at Sarin and Rosa’s twelfth anniversary celebration, actually a re-marriage ceremony (they are leaders in the music ministry at the Chom Choa Church Home, who grew up in our church home system and married). There must have been nearly 300 people there, most of them kids we’d raised, now young adults with kids in their early teens. The others were friends that Rosa knew from her shop at the market, Dozens of them were awestruck, “This group (FCOP) came and did this for you, “Stray Dogs?”  They looked at the …  

FCOP’s pastoral training this month was on “Spiritual Warfare.” It is amazing to Mak Sou, me, and the church leaders, how unaware some of our key pastors were of basic concepts like, “The Authority of the Believer,” and the difference between “Authority” and “Power.” We taught through the concept that Jesus had all authority while he was in the carpentry shop, but it was not mixed with power until he was baptized in the Holy Spirit. Kind of like the King of a small country may have the authority to declare war on a large country, but he possesses no power to …  

What went wrong? When I was in Laos in 1968, my job was to convince Laotian rice farmers to develop irrigation cooperatives, so that they could raise two crops of rice per year instead of one. Our great motivator was “Materialism” and, it seems, we became effective evangelists, but it wasn’t always easy. “Just think! You can use that extra crop to buy a new Honda ‘90 motorbike,” we’d say, with great enthusiasm. What came back were often blank stares. “What’s wrong with you,” we’d ask. “Well, to be honest, we’d rather go fishing,” came the reply. It was total …  

  FCOP never says “Whoa” in a pull. It’s time to plant a new rice crop in a new year. We are working hard to build fertility, plant better varieties, improve water control, and level land. It takes time and money. We don’t have enough of either, but money is in the shortest supply. We do what we can with 40-50 year old equipment. If you have some help to give we could sure use it. Thank you very much!  

There were weddings that we could have attended, virtually several times each week, last month. Orphans marrying orphans, and their marriages seem to last pretty well. The good thing is that they do have the FCOP family to support them. But can I support the weddings? Poor Pa and Mak Thom (Ted and Sou)! Once again, I have too much to say, but we have a lot going on. There is a spiritual war going on for the soul of Cambodia. Please pray of us often. Christ is the answer, but the devilish forces of humanism will not just roll over …  

    Dany’s story is all too common. In 2013 Dany was a crippled girl with two healthy siblings in a poor family in rural Steung Treng. Her father died when she was young and her mother re-married twice. As an infant she learned to walk late and was slower and weaker than other kids her age. Though she and her family did not know it, she had tuberculosis of the bones. Even though she had trouble walking normally, she desperately wanted to be like a normal kid.  With a mindset of “mind over matter” she determined to climb a …  

It seems I have danced between provision and disaster so many times I can’t count them. That’s the “Forrest Gump” part of my ministry. I just do what I can in faith, and God provides what He does through grace. The thing is, our books are done for last year, our net worth increased, with the addition of some rice land and equipment, and our short-term debt was eliminated. That’s good! But, after a very slow December, January hit and it was bleak. February looked worse, until God came through, via a faithful friend, and saved me again. I am …  

I’ve been happily comparing myself to “Balaam’s donkey.” You know the one the Bible says, “The dumb ass spoke.” When I start receiving requests to validate the ministry of FCOP in order to be considered for recurring gifts, two things happened: 1) Sou and I received notice that we were being awarded Honorary Doctorate of Divinity Degrees from Life Pacific College. 2) I am scheduled to speak at two sessions of the “Voice of the Apostles” meeting in Nashville, TN, USA from Aug 10–14, 2015 alongside such well-known speakers as Reinhard Bonnke, Randy Clark, and Bill Johnson.  (See Link) I didn’t know …