C'Anne Wofford climbs the steps of Grace Baptist Church in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where she worshipped nearly 30 years ago as a missionary kid. Wofford returned to celebrate 50 years of Baptist work in the country with friends and family in mid-November. Photo Terms of UseBy Tess Rivers
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (BP)--Shortly before the fall of Saigon in 1975, Le Quoc Chanh, pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), came with his wife and young son to the home of missionary Sam James.
Chanh told James that he and his family had the opportunity to leave the war-ravaged country on a boat but weren't sure what to do. They were going to spend the weekend praying. James, whose wife and children had already evacuated, pledged to join the Chanhs in prayer.
"Monday morning, they came back to my house," James recalled. "Pastor Chanh told me they had decided to stay in Vietnam. He said that God had given him a flock to pastor, and he could not abandon his sheep."
Both men knew the enormity of this decision.
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