We still don’t have enough rice to meet all the needs we face, so we are eternally grateful to guys like Lou Binninger and the “Butte County Rice Producers” and “Far West Rice” for helping us out.  Almost 30% of our support comes from partners like these and others who ship us almost 400 tons of food products, medicines, and machines each year.  

Most people won’t call me “green,” but I’ll stack the carbon credits of our developed rice land against your rain forrest any day, plus we can feed thousands. Even with our enhanced production, we still need rain and June was dry (even though some of our pictures look pretty wet) so we started praying and commanding those clouds to drop water. It did rain yesterday, but I’m greedy. I want more! I believe we’ll have a good crop.  

One of the things we do well is our agricultural and economic development. Our true motto is: James 2:18b “I will show you my faith by what I do.” (NIV) Introducing appropriate technology has been one of our hallmarks. Jesus came to preach good news to the poor. Good news to them is; “There is a way out of poverty”. Paul Mok, the founder of our “Tractor Factory” came up with another transforming bit of mechanical wonder. It is built with old Russian jeep parts, a single cylinder Chinese diesel engine, and a lot of innovation. This thing looks like …  

We often get criticized for building dependency. To which we plead, “Guilty as charged”. What do you call your kids on your tax forms? “Dependents”, right? How, and why, would you expect kids to be self sufficient? Now, the part you don’t hear is that they don’t stay that way! We teach them a profession, or a trade, and they go on to become leaders in their communities. We have cared for about 4,000 kids that are no longer under our provision. They are working as doctors, lawyers, farmers, fishermen, pastors, businessmen, and productive workers all over Cambodia. Everyone needs …  

You’ve all heard, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”  The problem is; it’s not true! You feed him until the rivers are fished out. That is pretty much the case in Cambodia. What we say is: “Teach a man to raise fish and you feed him for a lifetime!” Now, that works!