Ten Years and Going Strong

Ten years ago we dedicated the Training Center. Its existence has led to hundreds of thousands of Cambodian's coming to Christ. Its campus has grown, it's outlived three coats of paint, and could use another, but the mission has never changed.It now includes: a 480 bed factory women's dorm, hospital, tractor factory, weaving arts building, library, outdoor events stage, automotive technology building, and an office complex as well as storage building. It should have never happened. Originally funded by a devout Buddhist woman from Singapore who knew that we were leading people to Christ. It was a miracle in itself. Built in the center of a rice field, it is now in the center of "New Phnom Penh."The mission has not changed and though seasoned missionaries told us we were doomed to fail due to our unsustainable model, we chug on, twenty times bigger than we were then, with more than 10,000 children raised for Christ at some point and five times the number of Church Homes. FCOP has survived drought, flood, fire, disease, lies, enemies, curses, and betrayal. Since the Church and child care are growing faster than ever, I believe the best is still to come.  The experts said, "You'll never make it!" But we did![nggallery id=1003]