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Manna Pack

What keeps us going is the donated food. Reach Now International, Feed My Starving Children, Children’s Hunger Fund, and Lou Binninger, have been huge for us and without their help we’d simply be out of business!  

Rice Farm

  Harvest is over at the rice farm. The yields in fields with controlled water were excellent, but that was just 20% of our land, the rest went from mediocre to zero. Our solution is to develop the area to make it the primary source of sustainability for the entire FCOP program. We put together a quick video to explain this: Video  We also imported and constructed a building for seed and fertilizer storage, and began plowing for the next crop.  

Hero of the Month

Happy New Year! If FCOP had to pick the “Hero” for the last month of 2015, it would have to be Children’s Hunger Fund. The timing could not have been planned better, and yet it was just one of the many God ordained miracles that have sustained this ministry for the past 17 years.  What am I talking about? “Duvets”! If you are like me, you’re thinking, “What are they?” I didn’t know it when I accepted the shipment last September, but they have become one of the most important, and live saving gifts we could have received. On December …  

Hands and Feet

FCOP has never been an “Orphan Care Institution”. FCOP has always been, ‘the hands and feet’ of the church. We do what all churches are ordered to do; FCOP cares for the homeless, the orphan, the widow and the poor, and that will never stop. On December 14th the Department of Social Affairs announced, in a huge meeting, of all child care organizations in Cambodia, the requirements for residential care in the “New Standards”. FCOP could really help the Ministry of Social Affairs initiate the “New Standards”. “Both the Ministry of Social Affairs, and FCOP really want the same thing”, …  

Christmas Around the Country

Christmas is big deal here! Not only did we print up 140,000 special Christmas booklets pertaining to the “Power of God”. FCOP held Christmas events in hundreds of locations in every province around the country. Tens of thousands of people came to Christ! The events are still going on, and will last until mid January. At just one location in Phnom Penh, we estimate 3000 people came to Christ on Dec. 27th.  

Helping the Poor

In many communities the rice crop was a disaster this year. In Prey Veng Province, 250 families were suffering from lack of food. The mayor of the village and the township director requested FCOP’s help, and on Dec.21st, about 7 tons of food and supplies were given to them. Tomorrow, FCOP will answer a similar call for help in Khampong Thom Province.  

Rice Crop

With the exception of seven hectares of rice that was planted the third time, and won’t be ready for another month, FCOP’s rice harvest is complete. It was not what it should have been, it was not what it could have been, but thank God it was the best in the area! One 50-hectare piece of land that is semi-improved, with some irrigation capacity, and flood protection, yielded 8 tons per hectare. It showed us what can be done; we simply need to raise the money to get there. As it is, we have good rice seed for next season …  

New Church Dedication

We opened two new church buildings in December, both of them in rather remote locations. An Elder of the Foursquare Church in Korea funded one new building, in Kampong Speu Province. The President of Foursquare Korea, Dr. Kwang-Jin Jang, showed up to represent the church for the dedication. Several hundred villagers were present for the event, which was combined with a Christmas celebration. Several people came to Christ and one paralyzed man was healed.  

Thany’s Story

I am Thany, after my parents passed away, I had no place to live because my father sold and mortgaged everything to give my mom treatments, including our home. After she died we had to pay off debt in order to get our home back so, my father went to dig for sapphires in the Pailin Province.  While he was gone we had to live with neighbors.  No one could take all three of us in, so my brothers and I had to be separated. Every day I went to tend the neighbors animals and work the fields for them.  …  

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas! It is wonderful to live in a country where it is not “politically incorrect” to say that. With big help from the Home of English over 110,000 “Christmas Books” are being distributed in Cambodia, in their language. These books are 16 pages of full color stories about Christmas, the miracle power of God, and the plan of salvation. They appeal to all ages and feature true stories from FCOP Cambodia. We estimate that each book leads to about 1.5 salvations. They are passed around families and circulated through schools. This is a major reason why Christmas is our most fruitful season!    

A Christmas Gift Idea

 In developed nations we often have this question: “What do we give someone for Christmas?” Here is a suggestion: How about a great set of worship songs that are blessing orphans and separated children? “Donate – Create” is one of the most insane sayings to come out of the “Anti-Orphanage Campaign.” Their campaign slogan, “Donate – Create” is the idea that if you donate to help an orphan, you create them. That is nuts! The only way to create an orphan is to kill a parent. Their logic is like saying that if you have a homeless person living under a bridge and …