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When Sacrifice is Gain

by Tim Maddocks

A family’s calling across decades

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A family’s calling across decades

Tim Maddocks recounts how four promises to God set the course for his family’s life of service. After preparing in Samoa and Fiji, the family arrives in Cambodia with two young sons and a mission to help farmers improve rice yields. The account spans 32 years, as their work changes and expands amid upheaval, including a Khmer Rouge attack and a coup. Its Christian perspective connects practical service, family life, and sacrifice with lessons drawn from experience, presenting vocation as a commitment shaped over time and in demanding circumstances.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Christian perspectives on calling and vocation
  • Readers curious about long-term mission work and agricultural service in Cambodia
  • Readers interested in accounts of family life shaped by faith and service

Themes

Christian calling and vocationMission workFamily and faithAgriculture and community serviceSacrifice

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Book overview

Life lessons are best learned on the battlefield of experience. These pages highlight what happens when God is factored into the learning equation.

Four life-changing choices set the trajectory for the Maddocks family. They promised God that they would go anywhere, do anything, for any length of time, and at any cost. God took their promise seriously taking them on a journey from which the reader will learn invaluable life lessons.

 

After going through bootcamp in Samoa and Fiji, the Maddocks family arrived in war-torn Cambodia with two small boys and a mission to help Cambodian farmers improve their rice yields. Over the next 32 years the missions would change and be multiplied and sacrifices would be made with gain.

 

Lessons would be learned from numerous events including a Khmer Rouge attack, a coup d'

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