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Sophomore Shares Conversion, Journey to TAC, on Local Radio
Andrew Le (’25) walked a dramatic and unexpected path from Vietnam to Thomas Aquinas College — and in mid-April, he told the whole tale to Steve Chase at a Christian radio station in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Their conversation is the fruit of a friendship that blossomed between Mr. Le and the nondenominational pastor last summer — itself an unexpected, though far less dramatic, twist of providence.
“I’d do a prayer drive a couple of times a day,” recalled Mr. Chase on his “River Streams” program on WLPV-LP radio. A favorite circuit for driving and praying was the loop around Thomas Aquinas College, New England. “One of the things I prayed was that God would give me a connection with one of the students there.”
Last summer, God did just that. While paying a visit to the burial place of Dwight L. Moody — the 19th century evangelist who founded the school that once occupied the Colleges’ Northfield, Massachusetts, campus — Mr. Chase and Mr. Le happened to cross paths. They struck up a conversation, which continued in one form or another over the next few months. At one point during that time, Mr. Le recounted his dramatic journey from lukewarm Catholicism, to atheism, and back to the Faith, which deeply impressed Mr. Chase: “I thought, ‘Wow! This is really something!’” says Mr. Chase.
Last month, accordingly, Mr. Le sat down in the studio with Mr. Chase to share his journey to Christ and to Thomas Aquinas College — and how he hopes to leverage his TAC education in the quest to save souls. “I see so many people in the darkness nowadays,” says Mr. Le. “There isn’t a guiding light for them, not just in the academic sense, but in the spiritual sense; a person to be there and provide good fellowship; a good friend, a good guide to them to God. I feel that’s where I’m called.”
The complete interview — which includes the story of Mr. Le’s mysterious affinity for the English language as a young boy in Vietnam, his dramatic first encounters with American culture, and some tidbits of Aristotelian wisdom gleaned from his time at the College — can be heard via the player below.