While I was on the “burial detail” of our dead early rice crop, the bulk of our office and district staff plus a team of medical professionals (including about 25 foreigners and 8 Cambodians), were engaged in bringing medical healing. More than 100 other staff evangelized, prayed for, preached to, and entertained the crowds of up to 1000 per day who came for help. In the process, they led thousands of the poorest Cambodians to glorious new life! Nine different tribal groups from the northeastern province of Rattanakirri came to the provincial capital of Banlung for free medical treatment. People …  

Timely trimming is always beneficial when it comes to fruit production. I think we all get that, but has anyone ever asked the tree? “Rheeem, Rheeem, Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr” No! Not a chain saw! Chop, chop, saw, cut, ouch! Stop that! No, not that one! Timber! “Wow, I’d have never dreamed it, but it was rotten at the core!” The tree has to hate the process, but the results are worth it. Maybe I’m part tree? I know just how it feels. We lost a couple of key leaders to corruption recently, but new life is springing up all over Cambodia. Kong …  

“Curiosity killed the cat.” It’s an old maxim but I have a feeling the writer had more on his mind than dead cats. Human minds were the subject. If we have a knowledge vacuum, our natural tendency is to fill it with whatever fits our fancy. Rumors and gossip become the by-products. This human weakness was used to defeat the Khmer Rouge. Cambodians lacked any kind of normal weapon, so they relied upon the power of the rumor. At the end of the Khmer Rouge reign, more Khmer Rouge were being killed by the Khmer Rouge than Khmer Rouge killing …  

We put this video together for the recent Foursquare Connection so that you can see the seamless integration of the Young Lions’ Spirit empowered ministry and our holistic approach to building the body of Christ. My daughter-in-law, Sandi Olbrich (Tony’s wife) wrote and performed the song, “Miracle.” If you like the song, you can download it from iTunes and other online music stores.  

We link Spirit led evangelism with the meeting of urgent needs (Titus 3:14). This is often done through the help of grant funding.  The fruitfulness which comes from moving in a way that connects people with God and also meets their needs is electrifying. The community sees how the church meets human need, and they are open to the Gospel of Christ. How do you connect crickets with the Gospel? Well, French fried crickets sell for $5.00 US per kilogram. District Supervisor Heang brings in local pastors and church members to train them in spiritual truth, but also sends them …  

You live and learn. Roofs leak, fences break down, wood rots, and paint fades, cracks and mildews in our climate faster than in most. I started laying cedar shingles for my dad when I was seven. I put down my first tar roof at age thirteen, started with steel in my teens, done everything from thatch, to rubber, to plastic, to cement, to tile ever since. We had over six miles of fence to maintain on our dairy farm, and buildings that constantly needed repair from wear and the elements. Somehow, I graduated from cows, to pigs, to kids. Now, …  

Good farmers learn how to maintain their equipment. The same is true with the Church, both the spiritual and the physical aspects need attention. The practical challenge of maintaining the physical body, through our Foursquare Foundation Hepatitis B  vaccination program, is proving to present a real challenge. Nearly everywhere we go, we are finding about five percent of the people test positive. It is a very infectious disease and eventually it has the ability to destroy the liver. There are medicines which can help control this disease, but they are expensive. We treat those we can, and pray for the …  

We fight a constant battle against the elements to keep our buildings in a good state of repair. Facility renovation for the Oral Church Orphan Home, funded by the Nutland family from Hong Kong, is an example of an ongoing, routine activity for FCOP. It all just goes to prove that the second law of thermodynamics was instituted by God. Stated in plain farmer terms: “Anything left to itself naturally turns to crud.” True for body, soul, and spirit.