Prior to our arrival in Da Nang I knew that we were going to be in need of a national to help us make the necessary connections for building materials and the permission needed from the local People’s Committee to help in the specific areas hardest hit by the storm.  Bob Huff from the Bread of Life introduced us to the Hoa Hai People’s committee and after meeting with them we met “Cau”.  Mr. Cau, is the project coordinator for the Love of Arts Center in Da Nang.  The LAC operates to help train the underprivileged in the development of the Arts and Crafts vocations.  While the Bread of Life is a training facility for the hearing impaired, both organizations are helping the handicapped and underprivileged of Da Nang.

    Cau, as we all called him was our man in Da Nang.  He became our project coordinator, connected us with the right distributors, got us the right prices and even got one company to donate the screws for all the roofs.  He did more than that, he knew his people and how to make them work together and build community.  He spoke the languages ours and his, he knew the culture ours and his.  He had many gifts and has the character of a man that can only be developed by having come through the hard challenges that life can sometime present.  He had allowed those hard times to form the character that we were now benefitting from.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Cau, was invaluable to us.  He was a former ARVN and served his country well prior to 1975 and after 1975.  He has raised two children and his son is an engineer currently training to teach engineering and in Japan.

    Cau, loves his country and his people and is a servant of the first order and we are thankful that he was part of what we came to do with our disaster relief efforts in Da Nang.            Cau will be missed by all of us, but we know he is in the place that God has designed for him and doing an “outstanding” job of it.

 

Thank you Cau, you were God’s provision to us in more ways than you can imagine.

 

Bob