Father Gomez's Letter

Felipe Gomez SJ

Dear Quang,

How are you these days? Here we just past a typhoon, which has left (at least) 71 dead. In our house, we

suffered only minor damages, such as fallen trees, broken windows, and so on, thank God.

I write to you, because I think that this report is overdue. Only now we realize that the projects are totally finished. I mean the use of the money Vietnam Service has received from the "Dominici Fund". On October 30, 2003, we received 5,480 dollars, which we sent to Sister Anne Tam, of Kontum, to build a house for Montagnard students. The house was finished long ago, but we wanted to wait and see how it was functioning; now we have confirmation that all is going well. I send to you the account that Sister Tam wrote, with some pictures, so that you and the whole group may thank the Lord for the service done to those poor Bahnars. Vietnam Service added some money of our funds to fill up the needs.

The second case is the house built in Quang Tri province, in the parish of Phuoc Tuyen. We received two remittances: one of 4,400 dollars (on 17 September 2004) and 380 dollars (24 March 2004). We sent the money to Fr. Nguyen Duc Hoa, to build a house for handicapped people in that poor province. He finished the job and sent a report with pictures, which I am sending to you.

Vietnam Service is very thankful to the Dominici Fund for this help, because a lot of people can now benefit of the generosity of individual donors in the USA. Usually, Vietnam Service tries to reach the most needy, in areas of the ethnic minorities or in parishes that are especially deprived.

Please extend my greetings to the whole group and assure them of my prayers and of those they help.

In the Lord,

Felipe Gomez SJ

Vietnam Service