SPECIAL VISITOR–Kenny and Joan Voges had a special visitor recently, Vu Tran. In the 1970s, the Voges family had sponsored a Vietnamese family and Vu was a part of that family.
By Joan Voges,
with edits by Vu Tran
It was April of 1975, Saigon had fallen to the North Vietnamese. People were clamoring to leave Vietnam by any means possible. The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS) had put out an alert for sponsors for these refugees. Kenny and I were married 14 years. Kenny and I responded.
In 1968, Kenny and I had purchased farm land with a small farm house across from our house. The farm house was now vacant although in need of some repairs. We contemplated on fixing up that little house and sponsoring a Vietnamese family, and it became a reality – a mom, dad, three little boys and an aunt.
For more on Vu, please see this week’s print edition.