Last month while I was in Vietnam, I had the chance to travel to Nha Trang to spend a few days. We didn’t know exactly what we would be doing. We only knew that we would probably be working with some of the local churches.
(Tuk)
One of the things we got to do while we were there is to visit a leper community. This community was run by a local church and it was made up of those who no longer had the disease, but just the after affects.
When we arrived there we really had no idea what we were about to do. None of us had ever visited lepers before.
Soon after we arrived, and after a short orientation from the pastor, we went to a back room were the lepers were waiting to fellowship with us. The pastor asked us if we could sing a few songs. While we were trying to figure out what songs we were going to sing, Tuk broke out with the song “Amazing Grace.” So while he was singing in Vietnamese, we joined in singing in English.
It was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen. Not only because he had a wonderful voice, but because he was singing of how amazing the grace the God is. His withered hands resulting from his leprosy did not stop him from holding the hymnal. He sang four verses of the song with a big smile on his face.
As he finished with this song we didn’t have time to think about what was going to be next before he started singing “How Great Thou Art.” He finished this song with an immediate urge to share his testimony with us.
Not matter what he had gone through or what he was going through at the moment, he was still ready to give God all the glory for everything that had been done and sing about how amazing His grace is.
(another woman we met at the leper colony)
