With 3,000 mouths to be fed three times per day, you can’t just take a few weeks off when the funds run short. FCOP often sees the brochures of those ministries that claim they feed children. That’s easy! Show up when they have some food, sponsor a meal, take some pictures, and claim bragging rights. The problem is, it works great as a fundraiser, and most donors don’t think about the difference between a ministry like that and feeding 3,000 people, 3 times per day, 365 days per year. One thing all Cambodian’s agree on is that a meal means …  

My old boss at FMI, Jim Scott, once said to me, “Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean that they are not out to get you”. The Cambodian government has surely proved that to be true. FCOP has been hit with taxes on our facilities, high license and permit fees, along with an endless demand for meetings. They seem to be following the Chinese Communist Party model of church suppression. Last month, the government unleashed our old antagonist, UNICEF on FCOP.  We have been in UNICEF’s crosshairs for ten years. Our mission is to be the body of Christ. FCOP will …  

We have received more rain in November than we did in either June, July or August, and those are supposed to be ‘Rainy Season’ months. November is traditionally the first ‘Dry Season’ month, but it has been wet. Unusual weather has been a pattern all over the world! FCOP lost most of our first crop to drought, then the replanting (second crop) was lost to excessive rains in September and October. In total FCOP harvested only about 20% of our crops. Finances have been extremely tight. So, we could not buy our usual, very expensive, foundation seed. Instead, Paul Mok went through …  

Mak Sou returned from two weeks in the US on November 20th. She was amazed! She said it was like the “Grinch” showed up and stole the Christmas spirit. She remembers years past when the day after Halloween, Christmas decorations burst forth in every store. She was in Rochester, Minnesota, not a poor city, and there were few Christmas decorations in any of the stores right up to Thanksgiving. The entire world seems to be going through a very difficult time. The Covid lockdowns greatly damaged the economy in Cambodia and apparently every other economy in the world. We want to …  

In 2022 places like Southwestern China, which have plagued Cambodia with huge floods in past years, are parched dry and places like India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos have seen record floods. Bangkok was flooded on multiple occasions and all the water was diverted towards Western Cambodia. FCOP prepared this year by adding 1 meter of compacted fill to our paddy dikes making them 3 meters tall (almost 10 feet). FCOP also built 10 large walk-through culverts along with many smaller round concrete culverts, paved more than 32 kilometers of seasonal road with 1/2 meter of laterite, in order to …  

Shanon has been active in her support of FCOP as she’s been busy sharing at churches throughout the USA, communicating with our amazing donors, assisting Mak Sou in her travels to speak in South Korea, as well as attending the Foursquare Northwest District Leadership Conference. In addition, she has also been receiving some necessary medical care and undergoing medication adjustments hoping to soon return to Cambodia in great condition. Shanon has been encouraged as she’s met with pastors, leaders, and people at various churches that have made a lasting impact on her. She wrote to Mak Sou and I saying, “We have …  

 Paul Mok stands in front of our new stainless steel ‘shaker box’. For 21 years we have been using, patching, and constantly repairing the same old worn-out rice mill. The beast has been slowly bleeding us out for a generation! It was so worn out when we got it, that the engine would not run. We figure it was built around 1980 with used components from Vietnam.  We bought it from the owner, who was dying of AIDS back in 2001, disassembled it, and moved it to Balang. Why? Because we were getting so cheated by the Chinese rice millers. …  

Before Joshua could establish God’s kingdom in the Promised Land he had destroy the enemies strongholds. Battles easily won are shortly remembered. Perseverance can be hard to muster when you are constantly bombarded with the constant question: “When does the, ‘Good News’ arrive?” 2022 has been a year of challenge. First, no fertilizers, then, no pesticides and the diesel fuel doubles in price. Next, it rained during the end of the dry season and the rain stops in what should be the rainy season. Finally, the rivers run dry during the crucial reproductive stage of the rice plant, and we have to stop irrigation, then …