When bad stuff happens we have to fight back, not roll over and blame God. FCOP is a very unusual missions ministry. If we were just evangelizing and planting churches we could simply roll with the resources available, but with 2500 kids and widows to care for, we can’t just stick them in a closet for a month until times get better. We have to find a way to continue. The pictures above are a great illustration of this. The flat rice was actually a very good, traditional, ‘red rice’ from Thailand. We did everything right and it is probably producing …  

FCOP Cambodian Rice Production Enterprise Fact Sheet Since 1999 FCOP has raised 18,000 separated, abandoned and orphaned children at some point in their lives. 100% have come to know Christ. Over 5,000 churches and home groups have been planted, many pastored by former FCOP Church Community Home residents. FCOP currently cares for about 2,500 separated children and widows. Widows become the primary parent figures and caregivers at the rate of one per five children. Pastors serve as surrogate fathers. Cost of raising children in Cambodia has doubled since 1999. FCOP has to rely upon foreign donations to continue its work. …  

We press on with all the other stuff; teaching and training with our new “Catechism”, getting people born again and filled with the Holy Spirit, giving “Hep B” shots, putting in water filters, training in the use of the audio Bibles (“Proclaimers’), rebuilding/homes, and receiving and distributing rice nutrition meals to our kids and staff. I’ve said too much already, so let’s save that for another time. Have a wonderful August! We plan on it!  

For FCOP it was a “Loaves and Fishes” moment of multiplication. In April we were told that there would be no “Manna Pak” rice nutrition meals available to us for at least two months due to the North African drought. Then in late May our rice was flooded and we lost half a crop. Talk about feeling doomed! We couldn’t have been flatter if we’d been run over by a steamroller! Then Lou Binninger, found us a load of nutrition rice from one his sources, 40 tons of rice came in from Butte County Rice Growers, and a load of …  

A single draft horse can pull a load up to 8,000 pounds. The two trained horses in tandem can actually pull 32,000 pounds, which is a load four times as heavy as either of the horses could pull by themselves. Draft horses can teach us a lesson which involves not only teamwork but coordinated and trained collaboration.This is a reason we have learned well at FCOP. Teams are essential to us, and it’s not really about work or money although both are needed. Want to bring a team to Cambodia? Check out this video as why you should come and what …  

  We’ve all seen the “Kung Fu” type movies. I like one particular instance where the “Master” wanted to show his students a new technique of shooting an arrow. He instructed his students to blindfold him with a towel and then he shot. When took off the blindfold he saw a completely clean target, no arrows in it.  He glanced at his students and they where afraid to look at him, embarrassed because he totally missed. In a quick recovery the master asked, “What did you learn from that?” They stammered a bit and one disciple blurted out, “I thought …  

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. …  

Kids from sixty some churches and home groups came to study music and dance with us this summer. It was truly transformational! They came in shy and afraid and left filled with confidence and new skills. Sunday, Sept 25th was graduation day. They made it special as they shared song and dance. Now, they go to infect a nation.