In 2022 places like Southwestern China, which have plagued Cambodia with huge floods in past years, are parched dry and places like India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos have seen record floods. Bangkok was flooded on multiple occasions and all the water was diverted towards Western Cambodia. FCOP prepared this year by adding 1 meter of compacted fill to our paddy dikes making them 3 meters tall (almost 10 feet). FCOP also built 10 large walk-through culverts along with many smaller round concrete culverts, paved more than 32 kilometers of seasonal road with 1/2 meter of laterite, in order to …  

Shanon has been active in her support of FCOP as she’s been busy sharing at churches throughout the USA, communicating with our amazing donors, assisting Mak Sou in her travels to speak in South Korea, as well as attending the Foursquare Northwest District Leadership Conference. In addition, she has also been receiving some necessary medical care and undergoing medication adjustments hoping to soon return to Cambodia in great condition. Shanon has been encouraged as she’s met with pastors, leaders, and people at various churches that have made a lasting impact on her. She wrote to Mak Sou and I saying, “We have …  

This Guy Is Crazy! The question on everyone’s mind that they are afraid to ask: “What are you still doing on the mission field in your 76th year? I mean most people have been retired for at least ten years at your age!” The truth is that I am about to embark upon the most ambitious project of my life! These are tough times, but tough times are an opportunity to show how strong our God is! There was a time when the promised land was occupied by giants. Did Caleb run? No! He took the mountain when he was …  

No one knows the value of a road until they are broken. Fifty-four years ago, when I was a young “volunteer” in rural Laos, during the hottest year of the Vietnam War, 1968; the “war that wasn’t going on”, was also peaking in Laos. At that point, the USA still believed we could win the war if we could just develop the economy. That’s why I was there. “Teach them how to grow two crops of rice instead of one,” was my mandate. I soon learned that growing the rice was the easy part. What to do with it after …  

Of all the things I love to write about, nothing gives me more pleasure than to report on the dozens of new Church Home groups started each month. I know there are many we are missing and I apologize to those pastors! FCOP simply doesn’t have enough people and good enough cameras to capture all the great work they are doing in establishing the Kingdom of God in Cambodia by destroying the works of the Devil. We can report hundreds of salvations, healings, deliverances, baptisms in water and in the Holy Spirit. Honestly, we can’t even keep count of them all. Remember your sacrifice is not unnoticed in heaven! May God Bless You …  

Bill Norton just had the “Best Day of His Life”! (I know, except for the day he received Christ.) He died. A lot of people will ask you at some point, “What was the best day of your life?” Some will say, “The day I got married”, others, “The day my first child was born” and still others, “The day I opened my own business”. But none of those are true if you are a Christian. Solomon, the wisest man to ever live, said this: “A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one’s …  

Before Joshua could establish God’s kingdom in the Promised Land he had destroy the enemies strongholds. Battles easily won are shortly remembered. Perseverance can be hard to muster when you are constantly bombarded with the constant question: “When does the, ‘Good News’ arrive?” 2022 has been a year of challenge. First, no fertilizers, then, no pesticides and the diesel fuel doubles in price. Next, it rained during the end of the dry season and the rain stops in what should be the rainy season. Finally, the rivers run dry during the crucial reproductive stage of the rice plant, and we have to stop irrigation, then …  

Nature takes its course. The “Second Law of Thermodynamics”, my version: “Everything, eventually turns to crud”. Revengeful, fired pastors wreak havoc on their abandoned buildings, acid rain eats away at concrete and steel, sewers plug up, gates break, floods devastate; I think you get the idea? Anyway, there is always more to do than we have resources or manpower to pull off. We look forward to a return to teams, we could sure use the help! But, regardless of the decay, we accomplished much this month.