Here is a prophetic word that is coming true. Bill Norton said, “Your resources should start coming from Cambodia”. That’s why we seek to develop the rice farm. But, the above photo shows it is already happening. Pictured is a group of some of the senior church leadership from Siem Reap and Bantemeanchy provinces that I went to teach early in July. They are standing in front of a new building being 100% paid for by Cambodian members of the Siem Reap congregation. They are building a larger auditorium. With the balcony, it will be capable of seating 800 people. This new building …  

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 …  

On June 25th, a group of donors got together and funded a meeting at the largest meeting hall in Cambodia. It was simply to prepare everyone for the 100th anniversary of the Protestant faith coming to Cambodia. I remember in 1999, shortly after we arrived, an elderly pastor arrived and asked to join our movement. He explained that his name was Keo Pawn, from Battambang, and that his father had been the first Cambodian Protestant Pastor in Cambodia in 1923. He had been so moved by what FCOP was doing for children that he wanted to be part of it. …  

It was gratifying to see the FCOP Churches function as was discussed at the FCOP Annual Meeting. The kids FCOP raised are now the leaders of the movement, and without any foreign presence in Cambodia managed to navigate through some turbulent times and carry on the work they do best, seeing Cambodia come to Christ. A new first occurred under their watch, what I would call a, “spiritual abduction”. A 27 year old man disappeared from his home in the middle of the night with no explanation.  His family, members of the Siem Reap Church, were living on land that …