Geezers do dream. Acts 2:17b is true! We have much to be thankful for! I learned a big lesson this month; about trusting God. It was truly miraculous and humbling! I feel a little like the starving tiger that got so focused on the flea in his fur that he didn’t even see the water buffalo calf walk by, so he went on being hungry. Make no mistake; our focus is on building the Kingdom of God in Cambodia! But, this work of caring for the orphans, widows and separated children of Cambodia has got to become less dependent …  

I don’t do this! I make the Cambodian’s do this kind of work. But, they trapped me! Four women, one man, Elders of the Cham Chao Church, stood in front of the congregation of 400 people, at the end of the Sunday service, and announced that God had called them to go evangelize some remote villages in Mak Sophat’s home province of Pursat. Mak Sophat, age 69, widowed twice, has been one of the primary caregivers to FCOP orphans since 1999. We never thought of her as leading an evangelistic team. They insisted that Mak Sou and I come and pray over them for the trip. We barely touched them and down they …  

  Colorado Mountain Men, “Booshway” in local terminology, took on building more than a mile of fence with 125 pound concrete poles for our Pailin Church/home. They not only had to clear the dense growth, but mix the cement by hand, and carry some of the poles nearly a kilometer. Although there were bruised shoulders and blistered feet to go around for all, there were also some revitalized souls.  Above all, a bunch of orphans who’d been thinking they were “stray dogs”, now see their lives have real value in the fact that nine men came half way around the world just to give them some security. None of …  

You fall into a pit easy and you crawl out hard.” This now $250,000 US hole we’ve dug, raising three rice crops without a major harvest, has us clamoring for breathing space. We saved about 12 hectares (30 acres) of rice from our second planting because it was valuable seed, even though drought had seriously damaged the yield. We’d paid about $3.00 per kilogram for this “Breeder’s Seed”, and it was what we intended to plant next season. The yield was poor, but because it was planted on newly cleared jungle, the roots went deep, and we did get about 25 tons of seed. The bad part about this was, as we …  

I didn’t exactly “fear” the Eastern Council of Foursquare Churches Biennial Conference, (ECFC) which we hosted in Cambodia this year for 500 representatives from 21 nations, but I did flippantly pray (You know? One of those prayers that you know won’t get answered), “God if you could give me a time machine, and just let me leapfrog over those days of October 7th through the 10th, I’d be most grateful!”  Job said, “That which I have greatly feared has come upon me. ” And all hell had broken lose in his life. So, I refused to open that door. It’s interesting that in the Bible God tells us 365 times to, “Fear not”. …  

One of our most supportive partners, Horizon’s Church, sent an overseeing team and a substantial amount of money to help renovate church/homes. They did a tremendous amount of work and were a real encouragement. The pictures can do the talking.  

Mak Sou has been under severe attack while I was in the US for ten days speaking at a District Convention and a couple of churches. Had I known how serious this was, I’d have come home, but faithful crew and a loving wife conspired to let me think, like the Shunammite woman in 2 Kings 4:26, “It is well”. She almost died, but now, all is truly well! God sent us two servants to help out through the next two months, Hannah and Katie. Both of the have traveled internationally, and Hannah has studied under Randy Clark’s School of Supernatural …