There was no way to explain what was going to happen when we went in for an ultra-sound, it’s just magic. This was Jum’s seventh pregnancy. All of her children had been born in a grass roofed shack in the middle of the jungle, on a dirt floor and she had been completely alone. Now these American doctors were waving a wand over her belly and showing her a picture of her baby daughter before she was even born.
We baptized sixteen Montagnards that day…I’m still on a quest for bibles they can read in their own language, Jarai.
Tuat is from a little village in the Mountains of Vietnam call Plei Chiot. She was the sixth child of seven children, with two brothers and four sisters. She was in her early teens when she married Tuan from the neighboring village of Plei Grak. Tuan’s family was well off by Montagnard standards. They had [...]
H’tonh Siu is 21 now, but she fled Vietnam through the jungle when she was only 16. Four terrible days of walking in fear of snakes, tigers and the Vietnamese police that were chasing them. No food, no sleep and the last leap to freedom meant swimming across a river. Looking at this delicate girl, [...]
The first time we tried to make a vegetable garden for the Montagnard families at St Paul’s Christian Church, it was a dismal failure. The land was hard and rocky; we tilled with a tiller but it would only bite into the ground about four inches deep. We amended the soil with as much compost as we could get, but it wasn’t enough.
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