Bill Norton just had the “Best Day of His Life”! (I know, except for the day he received Christ.) He died. A lot of people will ask you at some point, “What was the best day of your life?” Some will say, “The day I got married”, others, “The day my first child was born” and still others, “The day I opened my own business”. But none of those are true if you are a Christian. Solomon, the wisest man to ever live, said this: “A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one’s …  

In the Bible Jesus talks about counting the cost before you go to war. (Luke 14:28) But, some wars are forced upon you. Did you ever begin to restore a vehicle or remodel a house out of necessity, thinking all it needed was some minor repairs and a coat of paint, only to discover it was totally shot? You find yourself over your head! You have too much invested to quit, but not enough money left to complete it? Well, welcome to our “Rice Mill”! What began with just the replacement of a few bucket elevators and a new shaker box has …  

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 …  

From the day we landed in Cambodia back in 1998, our goal and mission has remained the same; to establish and expand the Kingdom of God in Cambodia. Since that time, Mak Sou and I haven’t stopped living in the Book of Acts. All throughout the country, FCOP churches are seeing signs, wonders and miracles, the oppressed set free, and lives forever changed.  While Mak Sou and I might not be out in the villages as much as we used to, the leaders we’ve trained, discipled, and released are being highly effective and we get the benefit of seeing the …  

At least two serious attempts have been made to write a book about the FCOP Ministry in Cambodia. The first was in 2008 and for some reason stopped at about 120 pages. The author came to me one day and simply said, “You need to write this book”. Mary Ann Lind is her name and she did a good job of capturing the first three years. I’ve never shared any of this before, except for the end story, and edited it down to the bare essence of about two pages to answer a central question. “Why have you been so …  

People often talk about a great global reset that is coming to the world economy, or is possibly already here. Cambodia had it’s own reset in every possible way, as a result of war, genocide and a destabilized government in the 1970s and 80s. One of the results of the reset was property ownership. Cambodia became the wild west, ripe for land-grabbing and squatting as there was not infrastructure enough to write land deeds and determine what belonged to who, even going into the 1990s. Unofficial land deeds and land grabbing has been one of the struggles through out FCOPs …  

As protein is an essential part of a balanced diet and survival, Cambodians have learned to find protein in everything available. There is one protein source that all Cambodians grow up eating and is served thousands of different ways…fish. As part of FCOP’s strategy to become self-sufficient, most of our church refuge centers have developed fish ponds that help to provide the necessary protein for the kids and staff. When it comes to preserving fish, it can be quite a challenge due to there being no refrigeration resulting from a lack of electricity in many areas of the country.  The …  

Planting has been the toughest part of the growing season in our 22 years. But, FCOP has had timely rains so far and the rice looks good. At present our concern is keeping it above water. Thanks to our workers’ continuous efforts, our dikes are stronger and higher than ever. Flooding is always a concern in September but we are running more than a month ahead of schedule for all our seasonal changes in 2021. Record rains in China threaten the upper Mekong but thankfully they are mostly east of the Mekong headwaters. We really need a good harvest! Please …