I take off shortly to speak at a summer camp in Southern California, three churches and, the Voice of Apostles in Nashville, TN, USA. I cannot give up. I believe there is a pony in this pile of “horse manure,” but where it is? I know not! We really need God to show up! We Plow! We Sow! We Incorporate! We train, we lead, and we keep praying and moving in the power of the Holy Spirit! We bless you every morning, as you have been the ones who empower the changing of a nation!  

I feel as though we’ve been on the edge of a precipice; our shoes hanging three inches over a cleft of rocky, bottomless ravine. Our rice has been but a few days from extinction throughout the month of June, but at the last moment, rain comes on our main 240-hectare (600-acre) rice field. It has been dry all around us. In fact, we have one 40-acre field that is about 10 km west of us that completely died. We have replanted it. “The Million Dollar Rain!” This (above) is a photo of our rice mill at about 5:30pm on June 11th. …  

It was a month of surprises for Mak and Pa (Sou and Ted), as Dr. Jim Adams came to Cambodia for a conference, and asked to present our honorary doctorate degrees at a Sunday service. Not wanting it to be noticed, I asked our pastor, Som Art, to only give us five minutes in the service. I got to the church and they’d (the Chom Chao Church) rented an additional 400 chairs. The building was packed, without isles, as pastors from every province came, at their own expense, to Phnom Penh to honor us. We were very humbled.   

Father’s day was special for me. Again, I didn’t mention it, hoping it would be overlooked. The kids did a number of special dances, a very moving recital of scripture, and a speech from the heart of all delivered by one, which just about broke me. (Watch Video)   

One of our “all-star” partners, Union Church in Hong Kong came over with a weekend team. Missions Pastor Lee Ann MacFarlane, led a team which included many of our old friends, including the Nutland Family. They gave the Bakou church home a needed facelift.  

Our pastors keep reaching out in small ways to communities all over the country. Every day we see new people coming to Christ through small group ministry. Meeting urgent needs and doing good deeds in Jesus’ name is the key to our ministry success. People ask, “How can we do what you do?” Our caring for orphans is not what we do to grow. We grow because that is one of many things that we do. Do you catch the subtle difference?  

It has to be the most politically incorrect and PETA unfriendly zoo in the world, but it was a big treat to the kids at the Chom Chao church home.  Mak Sou decided that after unloading 242 tons of rice meals and handling it three times; once off the container, once into storage and finally into the delivery trucks, they deserved a treat. They chose the zoo and were thrilled to see animals that they’d only read about. Never mind the steel cages and lack of natural habitat, the kids were happy. All in all, it was a pretty good …  

  This is a month for “Harvey Minderbinder” of  “Catch 22” fame (He must be the devil’s spawn). Harvey became convinced that the greatest joy in life was to live a long. But, alas! He discovered the only thing that made life seem really long was when he was miserable. Thus, the poor conflicted Harvey, was only happy when he was miserable. Harvey must have been a happy guy much of this month! Battling “principalities” is not my preferred sport. I received a call from one of the true “Prophets” that has spoken into my life, Bill Norton. It was 3:00AM his …