Scripture speaks of those whose faith enabled them to do great things in spite of opposition. Similarly, World Vision President Stan Mooneyham saw his dream of a children's hospital in Cambodia realized despite years of heartache.

Traveling in Asia in the late 1960s, Stan learned of a malaria epidemic sweeping the country and brought medicines to the Cambodian Red Cross. World Vision began several projects to improve conditions and, in 1974, started construction on a children's hospital. Just as the facility was ready to open, disaster struck.

The Khmer Rouge forced 3 million inhabitants to leave Phnom Penh at gunpoint in 1975, including World Vision's staff. During Pol Pot's reign of terror, a million Cambodians were killed or died from privation. In a defeating blow, the hospital World Vision built was used as a place to torture or kill innocent people.

Once order was restored, World Vision was allowed to re-establish work in Cambodia. Initial programs primarily helped rehabilitate farms and businesses that produced much-needed food. Miraculously, the government asked World Vision to reopen the hospital; and Stan was present when the first children were treated in October of 1980.

Though he went to be with the Lord in 1991, Stan's legacy endures. In 1993, the National Pediatric Hospital was dedicated to his memory and continues today as a World Vision ministry in partnership with the Cambodian people Stan loved.