The floods in Rattanakiri were sudden and devastating. Many people had their food supplies destroyed. FCOP stepped up with two tons of our scarce rice. We were facing a desperate situation. We had to use our remaining rice for seed and we were almost out of the rice sent in late July by the Butte County Rice Growers of California, USA. The Bible teaches, “Give and it shall be given unto you.” Out of nowhere a completely unexpected 20 ton shipment of Manna Pack showed up at our Training Center. God bless Convoy of Hope, Feed My Starving Children, Reach …  

Sou and I took a couple of days off to go down to Singapore to celebrate the marriage of one of our major donors, Gregory Butron. He is is an amazing young man who became a part of a start-up company developing driverless car navigation. He has done very well and is a generous giver. It is rare to see a 26 year old man able to do this. Congratulations on your new marriage!  

When you fly into Phnom Penh it looks like you are landing in a huge lake. Flooding is everywhere. Many of our homes have suffered first floor damage and many of our communities have suffered crop failure. Food is short because many of the rice crops have been destroyed by flood. One of the worst hit areas is in Northeastern Cambodia near the Lao border. FCOP distributed rice, soy sauce, salt and sugar to many of those people and in dozens of other locations.  FCOP continues to take in orphaned and abandoned children.  Four children came in this past month due to both parents of four children being …  

How many times have we been flooded? Too many to count; and this is just a small disaster on the world stage. Floodwaters from the collapse of a huge dam is southern Laos, just 30 miles north of three FCOP Church Homes in northern Cambodia. Floods have caused the evacuation of over 5,000 people. Cambodian government officials stated that failure of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy dam in Laos on July 24th flushed about 1.5 billion gallons of water directly into northeast Cambodia, which had already been inundated after heavy rains. Typhoid fever is an active killer in times of flood. The most common means of spreading the disease in …  

A little over ten years ago, Dr. Myron Wentz, founder of USANA Health Care built us a clinic through Children’s Hunger Fund. That Clinic has been the hub for dozens of medical outreaches and virtually every Sunday the doors are open to the poor in the community. Our Dr. Lina directs our staff of nurses and medical professionals; the kids help count pills and direct traffic. It just evolved over the years and it works quite well. We don’t say much about it but it has become part of who we are, and it really is a big deal.  

 Every five years we go under the microscope of multiple governmental ministries. They came out and inspected a random church/home, and our rice farm. The Cambodian Department of Customs was very suspicious of the large amount of equipment we have purchased; until they visited our farm. They were so impressed, they told us that they will allow us to bring in whatever we need to finish it. Then they chose to visit the church/home in Ou Amble. Whew! We passed with a grade “A”. Thanks for your prayers! Please keep them coming!  

April is split in two by Cambodian new Year. It is only supposed to be a three day holiday, but it often gets stretched into two weeks. Traditionally it is a time of cleansing, forgiveness and blessing; which meshes well with our Christian teachings. Even though we did celebrate New Year at church, and most people got at least one day off, FCOP actually kept working through it. That’s how we got 750 acres of rice planted. We had teams at work on both sides of the holiday, and through the middle, refurbishing multiple sites. The Chom Chao Church/home cafeteria …  

    The health of our kids has always been a primary focus of FCOP. Our critics like to point out that our school uniforms are faded, the stainless steel dinner plates don’t have the proper number of compartments, the mattresses are not thick enough, the paint may be peeling in places, the fence may need mending and some gate hinges may be broken. What, they can’t criticize us for is the health of our kids. Ten years ago USANA Health Care built our hospital in Phnom Penh. They came back this year and found it still operating and serving …