Nobody dies on our watch! As I write this, Robert Serna, from The Father’s House, Vacaville, California, USA, a faithful team member on his third trip to Cambodia is fighting for his life at a hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, stricken with congestive heart failure. He is in good hands, transported 170 km from Khampong Thom, Province, Cambodia this morning. He has three heart specialists and an army of the finest prayer warriors in the world fighting for him. We believe he will have many more years to celebrate a Merry Christmas. We wish the same for you! Merry Christmas! I am off to build rice bins!  

The dead, ghosts, the devil and Halloween, are all part of October, but in Cambodia it is called “Pchum Ben”. This is a fifteen day holiday where Cambodian Buddhists must visit 15 temples in 15 days. It is a time to remember your ancestors by presenting food offerings to one’s dead relatives, or, as many Cambodians fear, their ghosts will ‘get you’! If misfortune falls upon someone, they will often invoke a monk, or shaman, to find out how to placate and cast out the angry spirits. How do we deal with this as a Christian Church in Cambodia? Many modern Christians …  

The Kingdom of God in Cambodia is being built with rice! How do you want to do it? If you could truly transform a nation that is non-believing into a Christ centered country what would it be worth? This project is all about building the kingdom of God in Cambodia. I’m not talking about some mystical, ethereal wand waving, but a hard fought and proven, working program. What would you sacrifice to see it happen? We are half way there.  Actually, more than that, with all the infrastructure accumulated over 19 years of FCOP history.  We have received a promised matching …  

The Steung Thmei (means “New River”) is a very remote Church/Home in our FCOP system. It is built at the foot of the Cardoman Mountains near the Thai border. Fortunately, a new road has made the place accessible, but when we built it, most of the supplies were brought in by ox cart over mountain trails. As a result of the isolation, the people there are very independent and self sufficient. They learned how to survive on subsistence agriculture, and hunting. The problem is, our church home is trying to produce livestock and crops, and, well the boundaries haven’t been fenced in, so, …  

Our reputation? FCOP can safely say that we definitely do not have the problem of, ‘all men speaking well of us.’ The leaders of the political party had come to one of our pastors denouncing him. “You are the mayor of this community and so many people have become Christians that the Buddhist Temple cannot raise support! You have a bad reputation!” The pastor/mayor had committed himself to double down on his efforts to see the community come to Christ. It is not politically popular to do this in a country where Buddhism is the national religion.  But the pastor …  

Norm Knudsen, Founder and CEO of Mercy Smiles International, and former director of Children of Promise, passed peacefully in his sleep on Saturday March 25th, 2017 at his home in Alma, Missouri, USA. He was an extraordinary man of empathy, kindness, and great “Father” love. In 1976 Norm was filled with the Holy Spirit and the world turned over. He left his dream executive job in tele-communications, packed up the family, and left his 13-acre hobby ranch in Minnesota. He and His wife Karen headquartered in Missouri and began a 40- year run of directly helping destitute children around the …  

This definitely sucks! I’m a “Geezer!” My odometer kicked over the 70th year as I traveled from Knoxville, Tennessee to Eugene, Oregon in the USA. I celebrated the event with a tangerine on my actual birthday, but was hosted at several celebrations both in the US and Cambodia. I apologize to all my “Facebook Friends” as I received over a thousand birthday wishes and want to thank you for them all! I am just a lousy “Facebooker”, as I only open it occasionally. Sorry, I just don’t have the time. That sucks!  

 Albert Einstein defined insanity as, “Doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.” Since we have replanted rice after two consecutive failures to drought, I suppose that would qualify us as certifiably nuts. We simply hope the weather is different. Please continue to pray for rain in Balang, Cambodia! But, we are grasping for our sanity; we have a plan. God said to Adam, “Take dominion over … every living thing…” So we are taking dominion over the control of water on our rice with a dike and moat system that will provide water for an entire crop and …