 It is a very long story. I grew up on an IL grain and dairy farm, went to Iowa State U, got my degree in agonomy in 1968, just in time for Vietnam, to get out of the draft I took a job with a 3 letter company that worked winning hearts and minds in Laos. Did that until 1971, but while there met and married a princess from the southern Kingdom of Champasak in Laos (married for 37 years). Came back to the US worked for Growmark for two years and bought a farm on a shoestring on the Iowa/Mn border near Austin in 1973, kept borrowing and leveraging until I was farming 2200 acres and raising 7000 hogs by 1981. Interest rates hit 24% at PCA and I was in trouble, so I sold out at a big profit but was too smart to take the cash in order to avoid capital gains tax. The buyewr made one payment and went bankrupt. I had gone to Western Samoa with Catholic Relief Services (thinking I was rich) to set up a technical school when it all fell apart. I got hooked up with some Charismatic Catolics and got serious about my faith. The job in Samoa fell apart after president Regan cut the USAID funding, so I came back to the US and worked for Growmark as a grain department manager. We started attending a Methodist Church, it split, we went with the charismatics, the pastor died a few years later, and the elders of the church made me pastor. I brought the church into Foursquare denomination and it grew to about 400 people, when the denomination asked me to come back to SE Asia as a missionary. We came to Cambodia in 1998. Started with one small church which we later closed, but today have about 2600 churches and 100 orhan homes thaking care of 4000 kids and around 300,000 believers. So, we've been busy. You can learn more from:
www.missionreports.com/cambodia
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