Agriculture Projects

Raining Season Finally Comes After Long Hot Summer 

Summer was hot, really hot this year. Many well and ponds out in the villages dried off. People were struggling to get clean water. Many cows died of hot weather. Our fruit trees were also affected. We spent a bit of money to buy water to water the fruit tree, to make sure it survived to the raining season. Raining season is finally here! 

Digging a Pond for Sakada Church

As it begin to rain heavier and heavier, we face another problem, flooding and bad road condition. Every raining season, we face problem of transportation to the villages. Roads to some villages are just too difficult to travel. It looks like that we face different problems in different seasons. But God is good, he always provide us with the alternatives. 

In our effort to becoming self supporting, we begin our agriculture projects. One of them is the chicken bank project and the other is fruit tree plantation. The chicken bank project supported by Faith Methodist Church in Singapore. The project seeks to help church members and villagers to have a better livelihood by providing them a farm with 8 hens and 2 roosters and other feeding material. Some farms are doing well yet some other still struggling to make profits. We are also planing to build a medium size farm for a group of youth in one of our churches. The farm will serve two purposes. One,  to provide the youth the skill of running the farm as business, and to provide resource for their education. 

Cashew Plantations 

We also planted 100 cashew trees in Tropang Tem Church land and 150 lime, jackfruit and mango trees  in Sakada village. 

Our next agriculture project would be bamboo plantation and green orange trees. We are seeking help to purchase land and the capital to start this project. We need 2 hectares of land for green orange trees plantation and 10 hectares for bamboo plantation. The project will be able to generate good amount of money to support the church planting and discipleship ministry. Please pray with us. (Please contact Rev. Lun Soppy for more detail on the projects)

A few prayer requests we would like to share with you;

1. Please continue to pray for our need of a pick up truck for church planting and discipleship ministry. We need around US$15,000.00 to US$18,000.00 for the truck. 
2. Please pray for good amount of rain so that the villagers would be able to farm well and that the harvest will be better.
3. Please pray for Tropang Tem and Sakada Church for steady growth. Pray that God will raise leaders among the people of these churches. 
4. Please for protection as some part of the new villages we go to are still at risk of land mines. 
5. Please pray for provision for our ministry. We are short financially this year.