Last weekend we took off and made a quick trip to Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam. We stayed in a guesthouse called Quan San for $5.00 a night. We had AC, beds, hot showers and free internet. It was such a blessing to us! Really it was a World Racers dream come true. One of the highlights for me was to catch the first game of the World Series on TV while there. It was just what I needed to not feel so far away from home.
The following day we visited the Cu Chi tunnels used by the Vietnamese soldiers to hide from the American forces during the war. The original tunnels are very tiny and I’m not sure how anyone stayed down there for 12 hour shifts. We crawled through an enlarged version of the tunnels (enlarged so that Americans can fit through them). And even those were very small and claustrophobic-inducing. 
We also saw a bunch of booby trap exhibits made of many spikes. I thought a lot about the men who died there.
Later on that afternoon Esther, Mark and I consulted a flyer we’d been handed for a coffee shop called Sozo. Our team is big on food so it didn’t take us long to find it. Much to our surprise we found that a Christian girl was working there who had been to New Life Fellowship Church (the one we’re ministering at in Cambodia). And the cafe had Bible versus hanging from some of the walls. Sozo is a word found in the Bible (Ephesians 2:8) and means to save or rescue from danger. This small business was established for the purpose of helping poor Vietnamese families find employment, support their families and send their children to school. Here is their website- SOZO if you’d like to take a look. We indulged in the enormous array of desserts. The peanut butter cookies were to die for. Then prayed over our Christian sister and left there marveling at God’s surprises.
Here are a few random pictures of our trip….
