To Vietnam With Love

This book is the story of Charles and Elma Grace (EG) Long as missionaries in Vietnam from 1958 till 1975. Their major work was among the Jarai people for whom they translated the New Testament and a hymnal.


The book provides an intriguing, tender, sometimes humorous, and often soul-searching view of those years in Vietnam. These were years that included terror campaigns followed by the American involvement in the war which made daily routing an unnerving mix of excitement, intrigue and danger.

Besides being a great missionary story with miracles, protection and martyrdom of associates, the book provides a different perspective on the war and its effects on the land and its people from our typical histories of the politics and military action.

One epilogue to the book is that in 1990's, the author was speaking at a conference which included various SE Asian peoples. He saw someone carrying a Bible which was his translation and upon inquiring, learned that many of the mountain tribes, after fleeing to Thailand, had coalesced around the Jarai language and that his translation was in wide use. When he left Vietnam, Mr. Long never before knew what happened to his translation.