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Peoples Receive Christ and Burn “Sai Gatas”

On one afternoon, in several locations, around 500 adults received Christ. They burned 5 kg (That’s twelve pounds) of “sai gatas”. These are chords which are tied around the waist, once for life, and then the people purchase enchantments, inscribed by a shaman on brass or silver foil, which are rolled on to the chord to protect them form every type of malady which they can afford to have produced. These are never to be removed or: “All the curses, ailments, and disasters, the charms were written to protect you from, will come upon you!” When these people receive Christ, and …  
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Mak Sou Bible School Deliverance

Two of the men from the 4000 family city came back to Phnom Penh to study to become Pastors. They are ‘oral learners’ having never attended school. They will use the “Proclaimer Audible Bibles” for self study and teaching. We brought in about sixty of our key leaders to go through the basic “Refresher Course”. Mak Sou was the main instructor. One of the two new believers showed some hesitancy, he said he’d, “Sacrificed himself to Jesus Christ.” Sou explained that sacrifice was not what God wanted, and walked him through the basics of salvation. He became agitated and his …  
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Christ in Action

“Value added products”, that’s what you could call our kids after a team visits. Three teams of committed Christians, and my old college roommate with his daughter and granddaughter, came to assist a half dozen of our church/homes in January. These abandoned, orphaned, and discarded children found someone that cares enough to come half-way around the world to make their world a little better. Great teams from East Valley Church, The Korean Foursquare Church, and Living Water Church imparted a great deal to these children in Cambodia through building fences, painting buildings, but really at the heart of it all, …  
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Rice Farm Developments

With much of the developed world turning to a philosophical form of Christianity, rather than a relational form, the developing churches in the poorer countries are left to fend for the growth of the church at their own expense. I realize that is a trend which Jesus predicted, and that’s why I am so grateful for the help of the few committed supporters. You who are helping with the development of our rice farm may not realize it, but you are in the midst of a spiritual act. In order to get to the place where FCOP can grow consistent …  
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Manna Pack

Reach Now International, along with Lou Binninger, have shown to be true friends. We continue to receive nutrition rice meals to support the separated children and staff. Manna Packs, produced by Feed My Starving Children is a Godsend. We need about 2 tons per day to keep everyone alive and they make it happen.  
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Big Birds Laid Bag Eggs

  It’s hard to believe but for the last 10 years, since the home was built, our kids at the Krolai Church Home have been playing near three, 250 pound bombs, dropped more than 40 years ago on what was then known as the “Ho Chi Minh Trail”. “Those suckers make a lot of noise!” And, to think our US “birds” laid those eggs! I honestly felt a little guilty, but thanked God no one was hurt. Christmas got started with a “Bang” in Rattanakirri Province, maybe “Kaboom” would be more descriptive.  Some of the boys at the home were …  
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Christmas Around Cambodia

It may not have been as noisy in the natural realm, but the devil got his teeth jarred this Christmas! As you’ll see in a couple of paragraphs, he had it coming! We were experiencing continuous Christmas programs since the beginning of December and they are still continuing into January. We estimate that over 35,000 people made decisions for Christ. The biggest event was about 3500 young factory workers attending an evening service at Chom Chao, more than half received Christ! There is a lot of curiosity about Christmas here in Cambodia. The Cambodians see Christmas trees everywhere, and are very …  
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My Two Front Teeth

Where did the term “patience of Job” come from? It has to do with Job’s refusal to condemn God when Satan was allowed to destroy his family and his livestock. But, what if the livestock are trying to do the destroying? Remember the old song, “All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth”? Well, It took that old 1400-pound Holstein bull 54 years to get his revenge. He was long ago turned into Bologna, but he got even. On Memorial Day 1960, I went out into the 35-acre pasture to round up the cows for milking. One of them had …  
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Rice Farm Activity

  We are still harvesting our mediocre rice crop, just not enough water in 2014. There was some rice that was irrigated which is pretty good, but seed is so scarce that we will probably not mill much of it. Since it was raised from foundation seed, we’ll sell it as seed to help the neighbors out. There’s been a lot of activity at the rice farm with the extension of our runway (drying strip about 1/4 mile long), and the building of a large machine shed. We got some new “Tonka Toys” for Christmas as well! FCOP now has …  
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Rice Rangers

FCOP is really gearing up for the 1000 hectares of rice land which will provide for building up the church, and feeding, raising, and training the separated children under our care. We need to become less dependent!  FCOP must have trained people to do that. There really isn’t a good agricultural school to teach commercial scale rice production in Cambodia, but we have one, and there are about 30 young men enrolled in it at our rice farm. They are learning by doing, and getting paid a fair salary to boot. I promised them uniforms and couldn’t find anything sturdy …  
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Sustainability

To get to a greater level of financial sustainability, FCOP must purchase more land and dig reservoirs. And, we could certainly use your help! We are greatly thankful for all that you did for us in 2014! Most of the farmers in our area harvested little or nothing, they are deeply in debt to the banks, and the banks show no mercy. Banks only loan about 1/3 of what the farm is worth, but the farmers can’t pay the mortgage. The banks, wanting to cover their bad loans, take the land and sell it quick to someone with cash. That …  
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