Confessions of a Vietnamese Baptist preacher.

From: Baptist History and Heritage | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Durso, Pamela R.; Ha, Ngoc | Copyright information

I was born in Bac-lieu, Vietnam, in 1954 to a Buddhist family who participated in ancestor worship. During my childhood years, we lived in the government compound in Soctrang about 150 miles south of Saigon.

My father was the driver for our city's mayor. I was twenty years old in 1975 when Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, and because I had served in the military police force for the South Vietnamese government, I was placed in a reeducation camp, where I stayed for a...

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