Vietnam 2009: San Sa Ho

Mar 18th, 2009 | By art rogers | Category: Church, General Christian, Missional, Vietnam

Skelly Drive contributed enough money to buy a computer lab, er… two computers and a printer with a network hub for print sharing… and we went there as soon as we got in to SaPa. This place is on the backside of a mountain. From Hanoi, we traveled 8 hours by train overnight and then an hour by van up the mountain to SaPa. From there, we drove another half hour further into what can only be called “rural” to a place populated by “black” Hmong people and the school the Government provides them.

The Hmong people divide themselves by color grouping and we have an affinity to the “Black” Hmong because we had a church of that tribe meeting in our building until last year when they moved to their own facility.

We met with the kids, observed classes and spent the evening building relationships with the staff of the school. Forefront church, working through GVI (Glocal Ventures, Inc.) has made incredible ground in their work with Ta Phin school nearby. I told of them last year.

Because of their reputation, doors to relationships are flying open for us. We were at two schools in two days and both of them were asking us to come back to help them.

Without any further ado, here are the pics from the morning (click on a thumbnail for the larger picture):

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