FCOP International

March 1, 2017

Sophearak

Sickness and poor health is emotionally draining and can plug your life with hopelessness and dread. Sometimes, when the dynamite doesn’t explode, we have to depend upon our “spiritual peaveys” (called prayer) to work us through the jam. We love it when healing is quick and dramatic, but there is something to be said about the persistence and love needed to move forward when you don’t see the miracle. Sopearak, nicknamed “Thai”, is a 22 year old young man who was raised in our system of Church Community Centers. He was brought to us at a young age with a …

March 1, 2017

Bethy Meeting

The greatest spiritual explosion comes through unity. We hosted our friend, and FCOP Board member, Beth Barone for a conference in Phnom Penh for the Asian regions of churches. Bethy helped us focus in on our need for unity through relationship and put us on a pathway to corporately owning our values, not just responding to something dictated to us. One thing is sure; we will be growing together over the next two years.

March 1, 2017

Cross Culture Construction Teams

Diligence is the best prevention for a logjam. When people feel ‘unheard’ or ‘insignificant’, it can cause great pain. In fact, that’s one of the main reasons we do construction teams. It shows the orphaned and separated kids that they are not alone, someone from halfway around the world cares enough for “me” to come and help. Leaders see “Rich Foreigners” on their knees digging holes, and the lightbulb of “servant leadership” clicks on. Then there is the physical help as well. Cross Culture Church from California showed up and accomplished exactly that. That’s one jam-up prevented!

March 1, 2017

Proclaimers

Keeping on doing the essentials can seem monotonous and make you weary, but the payoff of plodding forward keeps the river of life flowing. We see this every month as we place more of the audible Bibles, known as “Proclaimers” in the hands of people who never had the opportunity to learn to read. It is a marvel to see the life that is produced by hearing a dramatized version of God’s word. When these Audible Bibles, produced by Faith Comes by Hearing, are distributed it is like switching on a lamp in a dark room.

March 1, 2017

Manna Pack and Soup Mix

In addition to the Spiritual fire, we also have to fuel the physical man. To accomplish this there is the continual international transport of Manna Pack Rice Nutrition Meals, from Feed My Starving Children, through Reach Now International and Children’s Hunger Fund; plus the steady arrival of soup mix, molasses and cooking oil from Gleanings for the Hungry. We went through 40 tons of these products last month, but healthy, happy, grateful kids are the result, and your hands on the “Peavey’s” which make it all happen.

March 1, 2017

From Nothing to Everything

Most people call me Krew Savang. I received Jesus in the year 2000 through FCOP and I am blessed to serve as an FCOP pastor in Siem Reap Province. As our God is more powerful than any other god, I have seen many miracles and have many testimonies of God working in people’s lives. I have learned how to move in the power of the Holy Spirit to break up demonic strongholds. Recently, I was able to meet and pray for a 61 year old woman named Cheoun who has 5 children, aged from 24 to 31 years old. She …

February 3, 2017

All kinds of sick and named are healed

All kinds of sick and lame are healed: Throughout January, every day God is using our pastors, church members and leaders to heal all kinds of sicknesses and maladies. Most of them go un-reported. Not everyone they pray for gets healed, but there are plenty that do. Take a look at these pictures from the past few weeks.

February 3, 2017

Dead Man

“Everybody gets dead someday!” So, why does God raise the dead? It certainly is not as often as we pray but there does seem to be a common denominator. It’s like God is taking out His calling card and presenting it to a skeptical public, saying, “This is who I Am!” Now, we have seen the dead raised about eight times in the last 18 years. The last one was the day before yesterday and it was one of the exceptions. Twice we have seen people who had some knowledge of who Jesus was, but had not yet fully accepted …

February 3, 2017

Kids Visiting the Widows

Visiting the widows in their distress: This is not and activity that you see many teenagers get involved with. Our orphan kids are different. For one thing, most of our kids are cared for by widows but this particular widow, who lived in a shack along an open sewer in a very poor part of town, just started coming to the church until at age 96 she could no longer make the trip. Every Saturday a group of young people from the church go to visit her. The joke with her, pray and sing and really brighten her day.

February 3, 2017

To the ends of the Earth

Taking the Gospel to the ends of the earth: For us that is in the tribal regions of Rattanakiri Province. This is an area with eight tribal groups plus the Cambodian and Lao people. FCOP now has a ministry in every tribe. Mak Sou had meetings there for the leaders of the youth in every tribe, all of them having come from animistic (spirit worshiping) backgrounds. It is a given you need to work in deliverance when you minister to these people. There were several deliverances and healings among the people, but more importantly, an impartation of the power and …

February 3, 2017

Pa Thom in Columbia

Establishing the kingdom of God: It’s funny how the title of “Apostle” seems to cling to me. I was getting ready to go to Columbia to speak at their national church convention when Pastor Erik Jensen, an FCOP Int’l Board Member and church leader in Norway emailed me to ell me that I had been mentioned as a modern day Apostle in Randy Clark’s book, “The Essential Guide to the Power of the Holy Spirit.” It has never been a title I used or sought, but there I was in the same paragraph with Hudson Taylor. Then I went …

February 3, 2017

Feeding the orphans and widows

Feeding the orphans and widows: It’s one thing to host a big feeding program when you have the time, money, and food, and another thing to take this on three times per day, 7-24-365! Trust me, that will stretch your faith! Thanks to our rice farm and help from our food donors, we don’t miss any meals. But, I’d be a liar if I said I never worried about it! It’s just that after 18 years of this desperation, I’ve gotten used to it. It does keep me in prayer, and that’s a good thing. In fact, I’ve learned that …