Children’s Hunger Fund, represented by Founder Dave Phillips and Asia Coordinator, Sam Lee, paid a visit to our hospital/clinic at Chom Chao. They are the group that funded the building of our hospital in 2008 through the generosity of Dr. Myron Wentz of USANA Health Sciences in 2008. They came and observed the amount of food which we must import from “Feed My Starving Children”, and just today have agreed to help fund the shipping of our food containers from the US. This is huge! We are working out the details with Reach Now International, the originator of the “Manna …  

Our good friend from Asia Link, Pastor Erik Jensen, along with founder, Eivind Frøen, paid us a visit and toured a floating town of 4000 families, which until recently, was completely unreached. FCOP General supervisor, Pastor Som Adt and a few staff members led them up there while the new pastor was in training in Phnom Penh. When the mayor of the floating town announced that they had arrived, so many people thronged his barge that it began to sink. He had to force people away. We need a church building there!  

  Our tractor factory has seven tractors to sell. We just received three more. We decided to do a publicity photo shoot with three of our girls dressed in traditional dance costume, who form the core of our cultural arts program. After all, what’s more cultural for Cambodia than rice? Please pray the tractors are all sold this production season! We’ve had another busy month in Cambodia. One thing is for sure: We are never bored! We live in interesting times! That’s supposed to be a blessing! May your life find true value and meaning as well! Have a great month! …  

Even more impressive, is the growth of the Church through the kids raised in our homes. (See “Operation World” 2010 Edition, this is data collected in 2004) That’s what really upsets UNICEF. Leading children to Christ is a great evil in their eyes, and since virtually zero percent of the kids come into our homes knowing anything about Jesus and 100% leave in a relationship with Him, they hate us, especially, because FCOP never forces or intimidates a child to believe anything. UNICEF claims to have shut down 70 of our church homes. They shut down none!  

There’s a city of 4,000 families on the Great Lake of Cambodia, they live in a floating city, with streets of water, and stores, homes, clinics (the entire community) on rafts. Their cars are boats. They have never heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  They are not counted as Cambodian citizens because they are of Vietnamese ancestry. Nominally they are Buddhist, but in reality 60% animist, and 30% Ancestral worshipers, and 10% Buddhist. We heard about them and sent Some Ardt, our General Supervisor, and a few of our Yong Tigers to investigate.  

On one afternoon, in several locations, around 500 adults received Christ. They burned 5 kg (That’s twelve pounds) of “sai gatas”. These are chords which are tied around the waist, once for life, and then the people purchase enchantments, inscribed by a shaman on brass or silver foil, which are rolled on to the chord to protect them form every type of malady which they can afford to have produced. These are never to be removed or: “All the curses, ailments, and disasters, the charms were written to protect you from, will come upon you!” When these people receive Christ, and …  

“Value added products”, that’s what you could call our kids after a team visits. Three teams of committed Christians, and my old college roommate with his daughter and granddaughter, came to assist a half dozen of our church/homes in January. These abandoned, orphaned, and discarded children found someone that cares enough to come half-way around the world to make their world a little better. Great teams from East Valley Church, The Korean Foursquare Church, and Living Water Church imparted a great deal to these children in Cambodia through building fences, painting buildings, but really at the heart of it all, …  

With much of the developed world turning to a philosophical form of Christianity, rather than a relational form, the developing churches in the poorer countries are left to fend for the growth of the church at their own expense. I realize that is a trend which Jesus predicted, and that’s why I am so grateful for the help of the few committed supporters. You who are helping with the development of our rice farm may not realize it, but you are in the midst of a spiritual act. In order to get to the place where FCOP can grow consistent …