Responses from Hmong Listeners

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(Hmong from Laos)

This is the first time that I have written to you. I am so happy to let you know that your daily broadcast has helped my family and I know more about the Lord. The distance from where we live to the nearest church is a one-hour walk. We are still overjoyed however to walk that one hour to join in service with this church. Aside from the service however, we depend on your broadcast for daily wisdom. Keep on sending His wonderful word to us.

I have been married for three years and my mother and wife do not get along at all. What can I do? Since it is in tradition for my mother to live with us this is a matter that will not go away.

Any scripture teaching tapes and scripture verses would help me settle things for now. May God richly bless every one of you. Thanks.

(Hmong from Thailand)

I am a church leader in the northern church of Thailand. My wife and I have three children now. As far away as we live far from you, your daily broadcast remains a mentor to me of God's word. I enjoy your daily broadcast the most.

In our church we don't have a pastor so I am helping my congregation full time as a pastor. Every single one of your broadcasts gives me many ideas on how to lead the church.

Do you have any audio tapes that teach on the subject of marital problems and tapes that may help me spread Christ to others? Where I live there are still a lot of people without Christ. I want to share Christ with them too. Thanks.

(Hmong from Laos)

This letter is to let you both know that my family has accepted Jesus Christ in North Vietnam as a result of listening to your daily program. We thank the Lord each day for your wonderful broadcast.

After my wife, mother, and I became Christians, my father and all of his relatives got very angry at us. They threatened us with many consequences. At last my dad divorced my mother and took all of his livestock and personal belongings. My dad even reported my wife, mother, and I to local authorities. Because of this, we fled to Laos. Even though I have left everything behind, I am happy that I have the freedom to believe in Christ.

At this time we are lacking so many things but I believe that the Lord will supply us all with the items we need. Please pray for my father and his relatives at home. My dad sent a word to me that he will report my illegal immigration to Laos to the Laotian government resulting in an immediate deportation to Vietnam.

Now we are living day to day with a Hmong congregation here in northern Laos. All of us are so happy to hear your broadcast. If there are any scripture teaching tapes to encourage us with, we would be happy to receive them.

Finally, many of our Hmong Christians in North Vietnam are depending on your daily broadcast to keep sending His word to them. Thanks.

(Hmong from Vietnam)

I am so grateful to write to you again. This is the second time that I have written to you. In 1994 I wrote to you about my acceptance to Christ by listening to your daily broadcast. At that time my father was physically blinded and could not hear. I asked both of you to pray for him. One Sunday after you were praying on air for him the power of God suddenly touched his eyes and ears and miraculously his senses came back to him. Praise the Lord! Please continue praying for my parents for they still have some physical problems. I am so happy however that my family has accepted Christ.

Because of my earlier acceptance to Christ I have had the chance to become a Christian leader for several churches in my province. I travel many trips to have a Bible training session in the South and also in the city. I thank the Lord that through my training I am working full time for the Lord.

At this time I am responsible for visiting and serving 22 churches. These 22 churches serve 554 families of 4413 believers. 1560 of them have been baptized. Beside these churches there are any number of churches I participate in that I cannot number. I am also very busy and can't teach them as I need.

I want to let you know that where I live are more Christians than non Christians. In some villages there are maybe 3-4 families that are not Christian, this due to their work as government officials. Please pray for these families.

I traveled two days on foot to one of the largest isolated areas where a large Hmong village is seated. Many of them need to be training and develop growth in the Lord. Please pray for them and keep on sending the word of God to them.

Would you and the rest of you please pray for me. So many times have I stood up to government officials, police officers, in courts and communist leaders' faces just for standing up for my belief in God. I praise the Lord that I have faced few problems in the past but pray that whatever happens in the future I will be able to face it with the help of the Holy Spirit.

Finally, we do have enough Hmong Bibles but do you have audio tapes, video or any booklets that will help others understand the Lord? Keep in mind that we have no Hmong pastors in our country and are depending only on FEBC's daily broadcast. Thanks.