Living Waters Church in Olympia, WA sent a great team!
FCOP was busy with teams all month. Our first lesson was in humility. Living Water Church from Olympia, Washington, USA (Close to Seattle) happened to show up just in time for the Super-Bowl (The annual US football championship which featured the favored Denver Broncos vs. the ‘under-dog’ Seattle Seahawks). Now, the problem is that since FCOP International has located its office in the Son-Haul building in Fort Morgan, Colorado, Sou and I have made it our official US residence. Sonny Weimer, our board president, is a life-long Broncos fan, along with Errol and Brenda Faulkes from Colorado.
The game began at 6:00am local time here in Cambodia, and the entire Living Water team showed up. Since so many Seahawk fans showed up at the restaurant, the owner put us in separate rooms to prevent mayhem. We Bronco’s fans, puffed up with pride and confidence, offered them our condolences before the game began. Ohhh the pain! The Broncos lost by 35 points which was one of the biggest routs in Super-Bowl history.
To their credit, the Living Water team members were gracious victors. They worked hard and did wonders at the Toul Serey Church Home. Though the Denver Broncos didn’t make the cut, we had some “Super Teams” this month. These heroes were soon followed by Joyce Butron, our Regional Director who brought a group of family members to refurbish a flood damaged Church Home in Srayov, they even got Mak Sou and the FCOP Office Staff in on the action. They worked wonders in the short time they were here. Erik Jensen, a FCOPI board member, and a director of Asialink Norway, brought in a small medical team that was so appreciated by the provincial governor, he came to personally open and close the clinic. He noted that only the Christian Teams brought people who gave without wanting anything back. That’s a good way to close the month.
