Vu, Manh Hung

Thank You for this opportunity to introduce myself and my family.
I am enclosing the following information and pictures for you to include.
Thank You again.

My name is Hung M Vu.  I am 59 years old and was born in Vietnam.  I am married to Phuong Vo, who is still living in Saigon, Vietnam.
I came to the USA in 1992.  I have ben working in the hospitatlity field at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, in St Louis.
Before I came to the United States I worked in health care in Vietnam as an RN in Saigon for 15 years.
This mission trip is my first trip with COPI.  I heard about this oportunity from my sister  Ngoc Vu Rohland, who is also on this trip for the first time.
I look forward to meeting and working with you all and thank you for sharing your time and expertise helping my fellow countrymen.

Raina Zeeh

                                                              (Back) Curtis            

                                         (Middle) Raina & Thane 

                                              (Front) Nina

binh and Raina

Binh Rybacki and I (Raina Zeeh) became friends on a mission trip in 1994. When I first met binh she invited any doctor or nurse to come with her to Vietnam. As a nurse and with a desire to do a short term mission, with God's leading, I decided to travel with binh. At that time the trip was more of a fact finding mission than actually providing care to kids in Vietnam. It was a very eye opening experience and one that stayed with me. In 1999 binh helped my husband, Curtis, and I adopt my son, Thane, from Tam Binh orphanage in Saigon. In 2001 binh helped us adopt my daughter, Nina, from the same orphanage. Curtis and I decided in 2005 to take a more active role in COPI by serving as mission coordinators. Curtis or I have led each March mission trip since 2006. Binh and my friendship has grown over the years and I am honored to call her one of my best friends. Binh is an incredible woman with a heart for God and the people of Vietnam.

The family picture was taken on a trip to the Great Barrier Reef last summer during a trip to visit the Catfords (Tanya, one of our team members). Thane is now 13 and in 7th grade. Nina is 10 and in 5th grade. One day they both would like to make a trip back to Vietnam to see the country where they were born. We hope they can go on a mission trip in the coming years.