FCOP International

September 1, 2016

Good Food

The second most important factor for life is food. This was an abundant month for us as we received more precious Manna Pack from Feed My Starving Children and Reach Now International, but also white rice, dried soup mix, dried fruit, and grape seed oil from Gleanings for the Hungry. Thanks to you, the devil won’t starve us out this month!

September 1, 2016

Proclaimers

Of course the most important food we can receive is the “Bread of Life”, the Word of God. Thank God, just in time for our revival in Rattanakiri, a shipment of “Proclaimers” (Dramatized, solar powered, audio Bibles) arrived. This is huge, as most of these tribal people cannot read nor write Cambodian, but most understand it. We also have some Lao language versions. We bless Faith Comes By Hearing and ask you to pray for their protection, and provision, as they must really make the devil mad.

September 1, 2016

Football

I didn’t mean to speak ill of sports in my baseball story. Sports build community and relationships; and teaches values like leadership and teamwork. We have several FCOP football (Soccer to you Americans) teams at FCOP church homes in Cambodia. Our team from Poipet has won several tournaments, and really built the reputation of our church homes around the country. In addition, they have won sixty young boys to the Lord, and that’s a good thing!

September 1, 2016

White Horse

Pastor Jeff Johns knows how to sneak up on the “dirty devil rat” and stomp him when he is not looking! White Horse Christian Center, and Apostolic Church in Lafayette, Indiana, held their “Summer Gathering” in mid August. I was in the US to speak at three churches, who were all a blessing, but I went to the “White Horse” conference just to get refreshed. I never asked for a thing or said anything about our need in Cambodia. Pastor Jeff shared that the hardest thing he had to do, as a pastor, was to ask people to give. He …

September 1, 2016

God’s Love is Our Hope

Hello, my name is Phon Sitouch but people usually call me Touch (too-wich). I work full time with FCOP as a data support analyst, helping track and administrate the documents for FCOP’s 106 church homes taking care of orphans and separated children. I am so pleased to share my life story as God has blessed me with a testimony of restoration. After I was orphaned at a young age, I was rescued and taken in by FCOP when I was 15 years old. I am the eighth child out nine in my family. When my parents were alive, we were …

August 2, 2016

Power of Prayer

It’s been like living in an air-conditioned, abspesteous suit, in the midst of a fire, and I didn’t see it. I actually feel guilty, like a “blessing pig”! For the past 17 years or so, all the orphaned and separated children, widows, and staff, from all of our homes, pray for Sou and I daily. Now that is great, but I’ve come to see it as rather selfish of us. Sou and I have survived countless close calls, gone through fires, and not even smelled of smoke. I am grateful for that, but stupidly never really connected the dots. Others, …

August 2, 2016

Sopherak’s Heart Surgery

We believe in miracles but when they don’t happen, we do what we can. I sent out an “Urgent Appeal” on Facebook for a very anointed young man, Soperak, who was working at the rice farm. He is an excellent preacher and a hard worker, but when he would work hard he would faint. He grew up in a remote home and he was regarded as a “weak child” and nothing special was done. I brought him to Phnom Penh to see a cardiologist and the prognosis was grim. The doctors found a huge hole in his heart and just …

August 2, 2016

Changing Farms

So few people in developed countries are involved in farming today that it is almost like speaking a foreign language when I talk about it. I am a dinosaur and don’t realize it! I am so old that I actually remember my father still farming with horses and he was a progressive farmer! 100 years ago 80% of Americans came from a farm background, now it’s less that 3%. Cambodia is in that transition. The number of people on farms is in rapid decline. People raised on farms have fallen from 85% when we first arrived to about 65% today, and that …

August 2, 2016

FCOP Rice

Last month I wrote about all the problems we faced with having a good rice crop. “We are blessed with one of the best looking crops in Cambodia. Unfortunately, because our rice is so lush and green, all the pests love it. The fortunate rain we’ve received has led to a fungal disease called “rice blast”. We either treat it or lose a crop, so we treat it. The rats saw the best crop around so they moved in for lunch, we poisoned them, and now craw fish are popping out of the ground with scissor like claws and all …

August 2, 2016

Miracle Provision

Miraculous provision. It is so easy to say, but so humbling to receive. It is kind of like childbirth, it comes forth from tremendous pain and worrisome anguish, but when it arrives, there is so much rejoicing all the pain is forgotten. Our kids facing hunger and then being relieved by the Manna Pak arrivals, is just such an experience. We have so many people to thank, I fear missing some, but obviously we have Feed My Starving Children, Children’s Hunger Fund, Reach Now International, and Lou Binninger and many others to thank! Can you imagine what it is like …

August 2, 2016

Eye Clinic

We have the privilege to be working with a Christian Cambodian politician who is actually doing something to help the poor to eradicate cataracts. Excellency, Sean Soun Ngu has helped arrange for a team of Japanese ophthalmologists to come and preform thousands of cataract surgeries for free. We had more than 100 show up for applications and we’ve not finished yet. This is a total lens replacement technology and it is free for the recipients. People like Excellency Sean give me real hope for Cambodia.

August 2, 2016

Reality Video

How do you tell a story that is not proclaimed? Honestly, you can’t! John Freeman and his wife Jean, came to do video documentation on the work of FCOPI on everything from the development of the rice farm, to preventing human trafficking, to training orphans in technical skills, to hepatitis B vaccinations, and many more. If people actually see what FCOPI is doing they will support it. There are so many fraudulent charities, and NGO’s at work, many with ECFA, Charity Navigators, and Better Business Bureau seals of approval, but if you seek to defraud, you can even fool them. …