Feeding The Physical Man
The supply chain difficulties are worldwide. FCOP can no longer afford the cost of importing containers of food. We are raising our own. Jesus recognized the need to feed the physical man. (Matthew 15:32) We love it when He stretches our supplies but we also understand that we must raise our own food. As is well documented, our efforts to develop our rice farm require an incredible amount of effort.
I have never seen a human being (rice farm manager, Paul Mok) work so hard for so little. He has built thirty-five kilometers of dikes and canals two meters high with a four meter wide road on the top. Paul Mok is constantly overhauling 45 year old equipment, including rebuilding and replacing three large engines in March, unloading 82 tons of fertilizer, building six concrete 1.2 X 3 meter culverts, repaving and rebuilding thirty kilometers of washed out public roads, plowing 400 hectares of land between rains, selecting rice varieties, cleaning seed, killing thousands of rats, and keeping a staff of twenty underpaid staff on the job, while building a machine shed to protect our tires and hydraulic hoses from UV light, running and maintaining a worn out, antique, rice mill to feed 3000+ orphans and staff while sleeping many nights in one of our grain bins (picture of mat that is his is below). All this and much more after suffering a major stroke five months ago! Please pray for and bless this man! He is invaluable to FCOP and he needs rest! We need him, he loves the Lord, and the devil hates him.
We sent a detachment of our best prayer warriors to bless the farm and the devil tried to rain them out. I watched them point at the thunder head and while fighting off getting wet, it made a sharp turn to the left and moved off our land. They delivered a demon controlled man who had been bitten by a scorpion as he pulled his boot on, and his swollen foot returned to normal size. They cut off the ‘shigatatha’ (a cord wrapped with enchantments from a shaman) and burned it. You could instantly see the smile of freedom. They blessed the land, blessed the equipment, and blessed the man.
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