NEWSLETTER JANUARY 1, 2008

Even though we work with poor kids every day, I was still deeply moved Sunday when I reaad this story in the local news paper. This is a government paper. What a shame kids cannot be given a chance for education. The curiculum here is so out of date and every one knows it, but at least it is a chance to get an education. I was so touched I am sending some one to go to that village and see what we can do. It is just a few hours from here. I hope you will be touched as well and help us help them. I am also sending Bibles. Maybe some reading this will help and also pray fhr this endeavor. I am sure we can get some of these kids in school.

I hope you can read the article. I had it scanned but could not get it to send on e-mail. So I put it on the wall and took pictures. The pictures did not work either so I retyped it. I still have a lot to learn about computers.

We have to get birth certificates for some of our kids to get them in school, but we can buy them. Some of these are from parents that decended from the ones that were put in camps and prisons at the end of the war, because they worked or fought with the Americans, or French. When the kids were born they did not have an ID so they could not go regester the kids.

I love you all,

Tom Tune

   THIRST FOR EDUCATION GNAWS ATPOOR HAMLET   

(TN-KIEN GIANG) In a poverity striken hamlet along the coast of Kien Giang , the children with sun-nurnt hair say that more than anything  else, all they want to do is go to school.

Life is hard in the twenty-five household hamlet in Vinh Lac Ward, Rach Gia City where parents must spend all day catching fish and shrimp and childred collect recyclable waste to sell.

Whenever local officials come down to check on the village, the children rush towards them asking whether they’ve come to take them to school.

Dozens of the chidren have yet to have a chance for education though they have long passed the age when most are finishing primary school.

Many can’t attend school because they don’t have a birth certificate, and others say its because their parents are too poor to care.

Le Hoang Vu, a father of three said once in a while he hits his oldest child for nagging him about going to school.

Support for Tom Tune should be sent to:
PACIFIC MISSIONS
Smithfield church of Christ
8008 Limerick Lane
North Richland Hills, TX 76180
Ph. 817 281- 6800

Support for Tom\"s Kids should be made out to Amazing Grace International
and sent to:
P.O. Box 8453
Falls Church, VA 22041
Web site: http://www.hometown.aol.com/pacificmissions2

NEWSLETTER JANUARY 1, 2008

Even though we work with poor kids every day, I was still deeply moved Sunday when I reaad this story in the local news paper. This is a government paper. What a shame kids cannot be given a chance for education. The curiculum here is so out of date and every one knows it, but at least it is a chance to get an education. I was so touched I am sending some one to go to that village and see what we can do. It is just a few hours from here. I hope you will be touched as well and help us help them. I am also sending Bibles. Maybe some reading this will help and also pray fhr this endeavor. I am sure we can get some of these kids in school.

I hope you can read the article. I had it scanned but could not get it to send on e-mail. So I put it on the wall and took pictures. The pictures did not work either so I retyped it. I still have a lot to learn about computers.

We have to get birth certificates for some of our kids to get them in school, but we can buy them. Some of these are from parents that decended from the ones that were put in camps and prisons at the end of the war, because they worked or fought with the Americans, or French. When the kids were born they did not have an ID so they could not go regester the kids.

I lve you all,

Tom Tune

   THIRST FOR EDUCATION GNAWS ATPOOR HAMLET   

(TN-KIEN GIANG) In a poverity striken hamlet along the coast of Kien Giang , the children with sun-nurnt hair say that more than anything  else, all they want to do is go to school.

Life is hard in the twenty-five household hamlet in Vinh Lac Ward, Rach Gia City where parents must spend all day catching fish and shrimp and childred collect recyclable waste to sell.

Whenever local officials come down to check on the village, the children rush towards them asking whether they’ve come to take them to school.

Dozens of the chidren have yet to have a chance for education though they have long passed the age when most are finishing primary school.

Many can’t attend school because they don’t have a birth certificate, and others say its because their parents are too poor to care.

Le Hoang Vu, a father of three said once in a while he hits his oldest child for nagging him about going to school.

Support for Tom Tune should be sent to:
PACIFIC MISSIONS
Smithfield church of Christ
8008 Limerick Lane
North Richland Hills, TX 76180
Ph. 817 281- 6800

Support for Tom\"s Kids should be made out to Amazing Grace International
and sent to:
P.O. Box 8453
Falls Church, VA 22041
Web site: http://www.hometown.aol.com/pacificmissions2

Bro. Tom Tune and Sister Ngan during worship service at the River Road Church of Christ Sunday September 30th.

Bro. Tom Tune addresses the River Road Church of Christ congregation.

Finally one of our members got to see a church other than one meeting in a hotel room.
With the exception of two of our members none of our congregation has seen the inside of a church of any kind other than the hotel room where we meet. Frenchy and I have believed it very important for at least one of our members visit the USA or some where
and tour the churches and universities we have.

Very few ever had a Bible in their hands before we started the work in Saigon . They had no idea who Paul was, or Jesus. There are no church programs on the TV or the radio as it is very much a Communist country.

So Ngan finally got a visitors visa for the USA . She is visiting as Debbie has time to take her. The first church was in Springfield Tennessee . It is a large church, about 400. She was very impressed and I suppose they were impressed with her as they ask me to
come speak that night.

She has also visited Harding University and had lunch with the Vice President. I am sure she will have lots of stories to tell and pictures to show when she returns to Saigon .