Three years of neglect from lack of work teams due to Covid, coupled with spiraling expenses had left us with properties that needed massive rebuilding. The costs were huge! Many early buildings constructed with cheap roofing had been chewed up by the acid rain. Just for one quick example: The pastor at the Ou Rang Ou Church/Home lost his mother and father, founders of our work in Kratie who had come to help him establish the church, to death in 2021 and his wife to cancer in 2022. He stayed faithful but his cafeteria roof had rusted away and his building needed paint. Thank …  

Devastating regional flooding from last fall gave us some major headaches. It forced us to close our Church/Home in Kampot. Several other Church/Homes need fill. The ‘Eleventh Commandment’ in Cambodia seems to be: “Thou shalt build higher than they neighbor”. Since most of our Church/Homes are more than 15 years old and were the first thing built in their respective area, as others built around them, they soon found themselves in a pond as each new neighbor built higher than the last. The Kampot Church was under 1.5 meters of water. After 186 large truck loads of fill ($11,556 US) …  

Food for 3,000 people three times per day is our biggest expense. We raise our rice, most of the homes supply their owns vegetables, fish, and some meat but expensive supplies like cooking oil must be purchased. On January 3, 2023, two full shipping containers (5,720 gallons) of quality cooking oil arrived at our Training Center from our generous partners at Gleanings For The Hungry. That is a gift that saved us at least $90,000. This is multiplied by the wonderful jobs many churches are doing with their gardens, fish, and livestock. Once more, God provided for us big time!  

On January 19, 1998, Sou, my daughter Hannah, and myself, left the USA for Phnom Penh, Cambodia to begin what has become the FCOP ministry. I can only pray, “God, help me to never take for granted, or deem too small, the gifts and labors of any person who has contributed to the harvest You have blessed us with!” We came here for one purpose: “To build the Kingdom of God.” We are not finished yet and I include all those who have helped along the way in this paraphrase of Paul from Romans 15:19 (with my own additions), “In mighty signs …  

The Kingdom of God is more than just leading people to faith in Christ (although that is something that happens daily around Cambodia) and is the primary focus of FCOP. We need to remember that there are essential works that go along with that. Caring for the poor, the orphans, and widows, teaching the doctrines of Christ, water baptism, prayer, ministering healing to the sick, and deliverance to the captives are essential parts of the faith in addition to weddings and funerals. “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil…” (1 John 3:8b). It …  

It’s the last line written in the flap of a book by the angel Clarence in the classic movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life”. Like George Bailey, I was discouraged. Government mandates insisting that we supply new uniforms to all our homes by the end of the year at a projected cost of $52,500 USD or face shutdown had me in despair. Mak Sou had a prophetic dream and told me to write to my old friends. It was a miracle! We were able to get the uniforms bought and though they may not be delivered before New Year, they are …  

Eight thousand gallons of paint delivered in mid November have provided for fresh colors on many of our church homes with enough to refurbish all of them over the next few months! Bob and Christal Hollandsworth and our Training Center Staff have been the “Master Mixers’ with nearly 500-5 gallon pails sent to the provinces. The colors gray, pink, brown, green and yellow are not the most exciting but, gray seems to be a hit. Trimmed with a bit of another contrasting color, these churches look quite good.  

FCOP was very happy to welcome Jerry Stott and Paul Vernon (our Foursquare Church supervisors for this region) for a short visit in December. We were able to meet as a Cambodian board with them, show them around our Training Center and offices, and share our desires for the future with them. It was very encouraging to see their active support for the FCOP vision for this nation. Paul had great visits with Shanon Hladek and Bob and Christal Hollandsworth. Jerry and Pa Thom (me) got to share extensively on the topic of deliverance and demonic oppression. This is a …