FCOP International

March 3, 2015

Pig Farm

The Bible tells us that Jesus, “Made Himself of no reputation…” Well, up until now I’ve been content to be a “pig farmer” who became the “Forrest Gump” of missionaries. These are my terms, and I own them honestly. I may have overstated the “pig farmer”, as what most people immediately envision, is a guy in bib overalls and hip boots, with a bucket of slop in his arms, knee deep in “you know what”. It’s not that I’ve never done that, I’ve done much worse, but the photo above is my “pig farm” in 1979, that’s 36 years ago! …

March 3, 2015

Leadership Training

It seems I have danced between provision and disaster so many times I can’t count them. That’s the “Forrest Gump” part of my ministry. I just do what I can in faith, and God provides what He does through grace. The thing is, our books are done for last year, our net worth increased, with the addition of some rice land and equipment, and our short-term debt was eliminated. That’s good! But, after a very slow December, January hit and it was bleak. February looked worse, until God came through, via a faithful friend, and saved me again. I am …

March 3, 2015

Voice of the Apostles

I’ve been happily comparing myself to “Balaam’s donkey.” You know the one the Bible says, “The dumb ass spoke.” When I start receiving requests to validate the ministry of FCOP in order to be considered for recurring gifts, two things happened: 1) Sou and I received notice that we were being awarded Honorary Doctorate of Divinity Degrees from Life Pacific College. 2) I am scheduled to speak at two sessions of the “Voice of the Apostles” meeting in Nashville, TN, USA from Aug 10–14, 2015 alongside such well-known speakers as Reinhard Bonnke, Randy Clark, and Bill Johnson. (See Link) I didn’t know …

March 3, 2015

Rice Farm

At the rice farm we were able to add an additional 20 hectares thanks to the donation of a committed friend of the ministry. “Mango rains” have begun to fall and spring tillage has commenced. We received a container load of needed equipment, and are working hard to level, dike, ditch, and increase water storage capacity. We really need a bigger excavator. We found an old Hitachi for sale that is three times bigger than the one we have, but we don’t have the $30,000USD to buy it, yet.

March 3, 2015

Children’s Hunger Fund

Children’s Hunger Fund, represented by Founder Dave Phillips and Asia Coordinator, Sam Lee, paid a visit to our hospital/clinic at Chom Chao. They are the group that funded the building of our hospital in 2008 through the generosity of Dr. Myron Wentz of USANA Health Sciences in 2008. They came and observed the amount of food which we must import from “Feed My Starving Children”, and just today have agreed to help fund the shipping of our food containers from the US. This is huge! We are working out the details with Reach Now International, the originator of the “Manna …

March 3, 2015

Asia Link

Our good friend from Asia Link, Pastor Erik Jensen, along with founder, Eivind Frøen, paid us a visit and toured a floating town of 4000 families, which until recently, was completely unreached. FCOP General supervisor, Pastor Som Adt and a few staff members led them up there while the new pastor was in training in Phnom Penh. When the mayor of the floating town announced that they had arrived, so many people thronged his barge that it began to sink. He had to force people away. We need a church building there!

March 3, 2015

Singapore Visitors

Dr. Thomas Anthony, his son, Gabriel, and Pastor George Butron from Singapore, visited our Training Center and Rice farm. Dr. Thomas, a brilliant engineer in the field of thermodynamics, has developed an air-conditioning system that operates without any external power. They love missions and orphans and have offered to help us. Pray for God’s blessing and protection upon him and his patent.

March 3, 2015

Tractor for Sale

Our tractor factory has seven tractors to sell. We just received three more. We decided to do a publicity photo shoot with three of our girls dressed in traditional dance costume, who form the core of our cultural arts program. After all, what’s more cultural for Cambodia than rice? Please pray the tractors are all sold this production season! We’ve had another busy month in Cambodia. One thing is for sure: We are never bored! We live in interesting times! That’s supposed to be a blessing! May your life find true value and meaning as well! Have a great month! …

February 2, 2015

U.N. Reject

Dying is easy. It’s living that’s hard! I’m probably the only guy in the plane that starts praising God when turbulence hits. “Yes! This may be it! This would be a great way to go to heaven! Quick! Painless!” But, then the plane smooths out and I’m back in the grind of reality. Find a way to feed, educate, clothe, and heal these orphaned and separated kids. Pay the staff. Help lead a nation to Christ. And, the worst of it? Try to keep your friends from thinking you’re evil! Much of the opposition to orphan homes comes from the …

February 2, 2015

Explosive Church Growth

Even more impressive, is the growth of the Church through the kids raised in our homes. (See “Operation World” 2010 Edition, this is data collected in 2004) That’s what really upsets UNICEF. Leading children to Christ is a great evil in their eyes, and since virtually zero percent of the kids come into our homes knowing anything about Jesus and 100% leave in a relationship with Him, they hate us, especially, because FCOP never forces or intimidates a child to believe anything. UNICEF claims to have shut down 70 of our church homes. They shut down none!

February 2, 2015

Young Lions

Our kids are changing the country with thousands of Cambodians coming to Christ each week. This event was last week, one location out of hundreds. At this single event, around 400 Cambodians came to Christ. Now, if you believe that is evil, then FCOP is evil.

February 2, 2015

Floating Cities

There’s a city of 4,000 families on the Great Lake of Cambodia, they live in a floating city, with streets of water, and stores, homes, clinics (the entire community) on rafts. Their cars are boats. They have never heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They are not counted as Cambodian citizens because they are of Vietnamese ancestry. Nominally they are Buddhist, but in reality 60% animist, and 30% Ancestral worshipers, and 10% Buddhist. We heard about them and sent Some Ardt, our General Supervisor, and a few of our Yong Tigers to investigate.