Hello from Vietnam

Last month I was in Vietnam.  I must confess, I did not make blogging a priority.  There are many reasons behind this, but the main reason is that Vietnam is a closed country.  We are allowed to be Christians in Vietnam, but we are not allowed to share the gospel.  For a foreigner, it isn’t so bad because we just get deported, for a local, the punishment is a more sever.  Not wanting to get deported, we had to go a round about way of doing “M”, or ministry. 

So, what did we do?

MANY things…
We visited:
pagodas
orphanages
a home for blind people
youth groups
a theology class
a home for men struggling with addictions
a home for unwed mothers and their babies
a school
parks to meet the locals
coffee shops to talk with students

We went to these places to create a window of opportunity with people.  To share the love of God with them. 

Here is an example, I was looking around in a shop where I couldn’t afford anything and one of the employee’s asked me where I was from, what I was doing here.  Our standard answer is, “We are volunteers from the US”.  She seemed interested but it wasn’t a good time to talk so we met up for coffee later that week. We met and she got to ask questions about what I was doing, why I was doing it, what was my inspiration?  And it was so good.  We didn’t meet again after that, but I got to plant a seed of Jesus in her heart.

There were many other things that we got to do, so here is a video of things that we did.  (thank you Chrissy Robertson for putting this video together!)