Speaking at Living Water

Trong and Rani Hong were invited to the Church of Living Water in Olympia, Washington in May 2006 to speak about their extraordinary pasts and their mission for the future. They spoke about their childhoods, how Trong, at the age of nine, found himself an exile of Vietnam, stranded on an island, forced to forage for his own food; and how Rani, as a young woman who had never understood the confusing and disturbing memories of her childhood, learned that she had been a victim of child trafficking in her native India. The experiences of this amazing couple have shaped them both into people who are driven to free others from a life of suffering and slavery.
Trong also introduced the newly formed Tronie Foundation. This foundation works to build homes for those whose roadblock to escaping prostitution and slavery is that they neither have a safe place to live nor the life-skills to survive on their own. At Living Water, Trong and Rani laid out some of their plans for the September trip to Fiji where they would hold the dedication ceremony for one such place where women and children would live and get the education they need (more on this in “The Trip to Fiji”).