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 …  

This Guy Is Crazy! The question on everyone’s mind that they are afraid to ask: “What are you still doing on the mission field in your 76th year? I mean most people have been retired for at least ten years at your age!” The truth is that I am about to embark upon the most ambitious project of my life! These are tough times, but tough times are an opportunity to show how strong our God is! There was a time when the promised land was occupied by giants. Did Caleb run? No! He took the mountain when he was …  

 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 …  

Nature takes its course. The “Second Law of Thermodynamics”, my version: “Everything, eventually turns to crud”. Revengeful, fired pastors wreak havoc on their abandoned buildings, acid rain eats away at concrete and steel, sewers plug up, gates break, floods devastate; I think you get the idea? Anyway, there is always more to do than we have resources or manpower to pull off. We look forward to a return to teams, we could sure use the help! But, regardless of the decay, we accomplished much this month.  

Sanctions, boycotts, lockdowns and export controls are supposedly designed to hurt an enemy and protect the local population. However, after being caught in the middle of what appears to be an attempt to escalate the world into an economic catastrophe over a virus, only Denmark, a small country with intelligent leaders, and a group of African nations that take anti-malarial drugs with chloroquine, have navigated well and come through with low mortality to become the first countries to avoid shutdown.  Why are the Elephants so stupid? Now, the US and the EU, through NATO, seem to be pushing the world …  

Seven large diesel pumps are running night and day, consuming $1,000USD of fuel every day. We must build the reservoir, but until we do, we are dependent upon the rivers. Unfortunately, the Chinese dams are still filling their reservoirs and water is not flowing. What started as a wet spring has turned into a dry summer and our rice is thirsty. So, we built three more large 16″ pumps. Pray for rain on our rice! Rains around Cambodia are very spotty this year, with some localities experiencing flooding and others drought. Thanks to the generosity of so many, we were …  

There comes a time in the life of everything mechanical that it reaches the point of ‘no-return’. Our rice mill in Balang which is being called upon to perform better than ever before finally spit out its last grain of rice. Purchased well used in 2001, it has served us well for 21 years. Finally, with holes worn in many of the screens in the ‘shaker box’, the bucket elevator slats worn paper thin and most of the tubes and elbows ground through with multiple tons of those miniature grindstones called ‘paddy’. We decided it was time to send the …