100 Years of the Protestant Faith

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. He served us for many years. FCOP sent a representative group headed by Pastor Som Ardt, General Supervisor of FCOP, to the meeting of about 3,000 Christians and met with several of the giants of the faith. Pastor Barnabas Mam, who not only was one of the few Christian leaders to survive the Killing Fields of Pol Pot, wrote the song, "Cambodia for Christ", which in my opinion as it has been sung prayerfully by hundreds of thousands of Christians has done more to build the Church in this nation than any other single act.

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