Issue: Volume 19 Issue 6

  • A matriarch, a passion and the gospel

    A matriarch, a passion and the gospel

    Tom Poovong’s passion for sharing the gospel was first fuelled by his mother, a woman he describes as deeply spiritual and abundantly generous. Tom was just 15 years old when his parents and seven siblings emigrated to Calgary from Laos in 1980. In those early years, his mother, Bouying Poovong, would trundle her children onto…