Elders
Born 1955 to a Christian family at Ban Bo Ong in Xieng Khouang province, Laos. Recruited and served in the army in GM 23 as a field Medic then a FAG from 1971-1974 in military region 2. After the CIA withdraw from Laos and the fall of Saigon, Txhaj Foom was forced to escape on June 30, 1975, to Nong Khai, Thailand to avoid the Lao and Vietnam communist persecution.
In the refugee camp, He was a Youth and a Sunday School Teacher. He was baptized later in that year under the leadership of Kx. Pang Ying Vang in a surrounding pond at the camp.
On April 30 1976 he came to America to live with his sponsor in the city if Westville, Indiana a small town south of Michigan City. Txhaj Foom married his wife Yer Kue whom he met in the refugee in Thailand on December 25, 1977, in Reading, PA, and lived in the Twin City, MN ever since. They have 4 boys and 2 daughters and 8 grandchildren.
He is employed by General Dynamics and has worked there for 34 years and is still working there. He was a member of the United Methodist Church from the 80 to 2008 then came to be a member of Calvary Alliance Church.