Pastor Jeremy Stephens

I am currently sitting on the balcony of my hotel room where we are spending our final night in Vietnam. We’re in a small city on the Mekong river named Chau Doc. This is hotly contested land over the centuries. It’s placement on the river is valuable to both the vietnamese and the cambodians, but…

This afternoon during some free time I sat with a few of my classmates in one of the many cafes here in town. We were asking ourselves that important and totally honest question: What are we doing here? We can barely communicate, and we are only here for a few days so there isn’t really…

Today was an incredibly long day. I started the morning with Tim from blackcoffeereflections.com. We got some breakfast at the hotel and hit the streets of ho chi minh city shortly after 7am. We wandered toward the massive market (by way of a coffee shop of course) to peruse the knock-offs. I was hoping to…

Yesterday I learned a lot about the beauty of Saigon. It’s a city of history, good food, and pleasant people. Today, however, I learned about many of the dangers. Saigon really is a dangerous place despite it’s increasing level of metropolitanism. The motorbikes threaten to run you down at any moment and walking on the…

This morning we finally landed in Ho Chi Minh City. I think my travel time door to door was just about 36 hours. That’s a lot of time sitting down! After getting situated and grabbing a quick shower, I took a brief walk through the neighborhood of Saigon where we’re staying. It was amazing. I…