HANOI, VIETNAM; NEEDY FAMILY

This fatherless, jobless family rejoices over the funds we just gave them--enough for several weeks' food.

It always happens that Children's Cup project changes the meaning of the words "American" and "Christian" for once hostile people.

VIETNAM: HANOI OPERA HOUSE

Government officials publicly thanked me for giving this free sacred concert in the famed Hanoi Opera House.

HANOI OPERA HOUSE

This hauntingly beautiful child from the Bamboo Shoot Primary School we helped, danced and sang with the children at the Children's Cup "New Beginnings Concert" in the Hanoi Opera House.

She is not an enemy.

OMAHA, NEBRASKA: NEW LIFE MESSENGERS

Jean and I joined Gary and Sharon and traveled parts of the Mid-west as musical evangelists.

Jean and I wrote a lot of songs that challenged hearers to go to the mission filed. As we presented the songs we also heard the message.

Those songs hastened our own commitment to missions.

A great moment came when Jean sang one of those songs ("Fear Not My Child" written from Isaiah 43) in the Hanoi Opera House for an audience of government leaders, diplomats and citizens of Hanoi.

That song went full circle.

The banners announce the Children's Cup "New Beginnings" concert.

HANOI, VIETNAM: CHIEF SURGEON

The Chief Surgeon oversees the unloading of the container of medical supplies sent by Children's Cup.

Joyce Meyer Ministries provided some of the life saving commodities.

HANOI,VIETNAM: REMEMBERING THE WAR

Lt. Col. Paul Kari spent 8 years as a P.O.W. in the "Hanoi Hilton."

Here Paul, Ben Rodgers and I stand beside a monument to the shooting down of now Presidential candidate John McCain's plane into the lake in Hanoi city.

Paul and John McCain were imprisoned together at the Hoa Lo prison (the Hanoi Hilton).

Center: Paul checks out the weapons like the ones that shot him down.

Bottom: Paul by a Vietnam MiG that claims to have shot down 14 of Paul's fellow pilots.

SAIGON, SOUTH VIETNAM. EASTER 1975

The young couple being baptized in this make-shift tank are new converts.

Their faces beamed as they told me of their new life. "And now for the first time we can sing!"

They had never had reason to sing and had never known the joy of praising God in music.

HANOI, VIETNAM: NATIONAL TELECAST ABOUT CHILDREN'S CUP

We are viewing a telecast about Children's Cup on the national television network.

Can you even imagine how thrilled we were?

HI-5 IN HANOI

Kids around the world love to "Hi-5."

I had just given this needy family one month's worth of food.

That always feels good.

HANOI, VIETNAM: CHIEF SURGEON

I'm presenting the Chief Surgeon of Vietnam a certificate of donation for a disinfectant chlorine generator system we installed in the main surgical hospital in Hanoi.

He clapped his hands in joy and asked how we knew that's what he needed.

I told him, "befere we left America we asked God to tell us the right equipment to bring."

He explained, "We do 15,000 surgeries every year at this hospital. Our surgeons are good but we lose so many patients to infection.

"Now we can make all the disinfectant we need."

DOWNTOWN HANOI

You've already guessed I gave him what he was asking for--some "dong" to buy some food.

HANOI, VIETNAM
TALK ABOUT NAME DROPPING...

I'm showing this photo of me with Presidential Candidate Bob Dole to a Hanoi government official.

It worked.

This man welcomed Children's Cup's work in Vietnam.

He and his colleagues all knew I was a follower of Jesus and that Children's Cup was faith-based.

They also knew I didn't sneak around and that I always obeyed their country's laws.

Now, about a decade later, they still welcome us.

HANOI: HO CHI MINH'S DESK

I'm standing where Ho Chi Minh sat at his desk and made decisions that affected every American.

VIET OFFICIALS RECEIVE CHILDREN'S CUP FOOD AND WHEELCHAIRS

Provincial officials and dignitaries made a big production of 'Cup's delivering a load of food and wheelchairs to this old-folks' home.

The village was several hours north of Hanoi.

The words American and Christian took on a different meaning for them that day.

This disabled veteran couldn't figure out why American Christians would want to help him.

"PLEASE BRING CHILDREN'S CUP'S HELP TO LAOS"

The highest official of the Laotian Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam, invited me to visit her country with Children's Cup projects.

My son Dan took this picture.

Big disappointment--there were no flights available during the time I had left to go.

Now it will take $10,000 for travel and project costs to go to Laos.

They did allow us to send medical equipment by Diplomatic Pouch.

Their national newspaper carried a story about 'Cup's donation.

VIETNAM SINGLE MOTHER'S LIFE CHANGED

For a mere $600 Children's Cup was able to give this widow a new houseboat to replace her leaky, unsafe smaller one (in the background). It became her home, her transportation and her business.

CHILD OF HANOI, VIETNAM

War would drop a bomb on her or shoot her daddy.

Love would tell her about Jesus.