Don Bosco Technical School. Sixteen of our kids graduated this year with degrees in everything from automotive technology to electronic repair, electrical wiring, machining, sheet metal and welding, printing, to hotel and restaurant management. Eleven more students head toward completion of their technical degrees. Our favorite partners in Cambodia, the Salesians of Don Bosco, our Catholic brothers and sisters! We love these guys!  

Grace is a whole lot more work than law. It’s pretty easy to throw someone under the bus because they don’t meet your standards. We have become known as “easy” on sin. Well, the truth is that we are easy on sinners. I’ll never forget our FCOPI board member, Bethy Barone, stepping off the speaker’ s platform, the first time I met her at a meeting in Bangkok about eight years ago. She looked me in the eye and in front of a 100 or so pastors asked me, “Would you baptize a homosexual?” I didn’t know what to say. …  

There seems to be a new revival spreading, along with the release of the teaching coming form the preparation and distribution of the “Catechism” (A small book explaining the basic beliefs) for the churches. Mak Sou started teaching specific aspects of it to the Young Lions and the Womens Ministry Leaders of multiple churches and it has started a fire even before it has been widely distributed. Reports of healings, deliverance, baptisms in the Holy Spirit, and water baptisms have been coming in from various places on a regular basis.  

Great rice, lousy price. I believe we have some of the best rice in Cambodia, but we were hurt by lack of water control during a critical growth stage. Still we have a much better crop than I have seen elsewhere. But, it does show that the rice farm development program is crucial to our long-term sustainability. The strange thing is that with a generally poor crop in Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand, the price is 1/3 less than it was a year ago. Many farmers are protesting, by blocking roads with their equipment, and in danger of losing their farms …  

  Cambodia gets its share of droughts and floods but thankfully we are free of earthquakes and typhoon. We do get some strong gusts and one of them destroyed our cafeteria at the Dam Na Thmei Church/Home. We sent our own crew up there this month and it is now rebuilt along with a couple of new bathrooms.  

What’s a rice crop have to do with building a church and protecting thousands of young Cambodians from “Human Trafficking”? We always knew that Thany and his two younger brothers, who were raised at FCOP, were prime victims for human trafficking but I never really understood the depths of his emotions until we sat down to do a short video (see video here and please feel free to use this video in any way that will help defeat this common enemy of the human race). As for Thany, he could use some math lessons! He realized after the fact, that he …  

Dying is easy. It’s living that’s hard! I’m probably the only guy in the plane that starts praising God when turbulence hits. “Yes! This may be it! This would be a great way to go to heaven! Quick! Painless!” But, then the plane smooths out and I’m back in the grind of reality. Find a way to feed, educate, clothe, and heal these orphaned and separated kids. Pay the staff. Help lead a nation to Christ. And, the worst of it? Try to keep your friends from thinking you’re evil! Much of the opposition to orphan homes comes from the …  

It may not have been as noisy in the natural realm, but the devil got his teeth jarred this Christmas! As you’ll see in a couple of paragraphs, he had it coming! We were experiencing continuous Christmas programs since the beginning of December and they are still continuing into January. We estimate that over 35,000 people made decisions for Christ. The biggest event was about 3500 young factory workers attending an evening service at Chom Chao, more than half received Christ! There is a lot of curiosity about Christmas here in Cambodia. The Cambodians see Christmas trees everywhere, and are very …