Mak Sou just came back in from Khampong Thom province and visited a Divisional Superintendent (church leader) whom we had been reporting was watching over 32 home churches. Actually, he has 153 churches. Now, that’s a good crop! I have felt like we are fighting a chronic disease and that our yield would be down this year. A group of missionaries from Korea are buying pastors all over Cambodia. We don’t pay the home church pastors, and these missionaries will try to pick off the most fruitful by offering them salaries of up to $150 per month. We loose some …  

What’s the difference between faith and lying? They look a lot alike. Both  lying and faith speak of things that are not as though they are. The difference is that faith is God breathed, and it comes to pass. On the surface they can look the same. The difference can only be determined through the Spirit, and for those not walking in the Spirit, I probably look like a “big blowhard”. I’ve always said, “I believe Cambodia will be a Christian nation”. Quite frankly, I used to get a little weak in the knees when I’d hear myself say such …  

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.  

We just experienced another proof of the hand of God working through the power of prayer. Many of you are aware that all 106 of our Church Homes were up for renewal of their M.O.U.’s (Memorandum of Understanding) which are issued by the Ministry of Children’s, Youth, and Veteran’s Affairs, and gives each home a licensee to operate in Cambodia. (See Homes A – O) (See Homes P – Z) Because we openly lead people into relationship with Christ, we were strongly opposed by one Assistant Director who was in charge of our renewals. She was in a very close …  

Ted and Sou Olbrich founded Foursquare Children of Promise, a Cambodian N.G.O. under a Cambodian Board of Directors in 1999. When asked why he picked this name. Ted says, “When we started to receive orphans we had only two donors; The Foursquare Church and Children of Promise. I reasoned, we might as well include both in our name.  As we grew, we now have more than a thousand, churches, organizations and individuals that support us, rather than single out two donors we simply turned the name into an acronym, FCOP.”   For 10 years FCOP directed funds to flow through one of …  

The concept of keying in on fruitfulness through anointing is more essential to me than drawing my next breath. So, I don’t compromise. We will continue to do this no matter how painful, expensive, or embarrassing until God pulls the pin! It is not just the force of human will, a neat idea, or even a well executed Biblical concept. It is a calling and anointing. So we “Mush on.” Orphan staff are now learning that true goodness is not religious activity, but something much more tangible (Is 1:17)  

Physically, emotionally, and financially we all often feel like giving up. The Government is pressing hard on renewals for the “Memorandum of Understanding,” which is the document that gives us authority to operate each home. This mandate is written by humanistic organizations, which “fund” the appropriate agencies to work their own purposes. Much of what they want is good but culturally inappropriate for Cambodia. One size fits all, designed in Europe for the entire world. The document for our homes totals 57,600 pages. (Yes, I typed that correctly!) And you thought only the US loved bureaucracy? These agencies simply want …