Responses from Hmong Listeners

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(Hmong from Laos) L-0496-1-P]

I am thankful to the Lord that there is a broadcast. I have been listening to your broadcast for some time and it is almost been a year since I have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ.

One Sunday I brought to listen to your broadcast that you and your wife produce every week. Later, all my brothers cautioned me about worshipping the Lord. They claimed that I was breaking the law and that I went against what the family stood for. I am living in fear now and am still preparing an answer for them.

What I really need is a Hmong Bible and some other literature that you would have available. Keep the broadcast alive, many of us pray for you and your wife every day.

(Hmong from North Vietnam) [V-0496-2-P]

After listening to your broadcast for six months, I accepted the Lord into my heart. After that I went everywhere telling about the Lord and God's love, spreading the Gospel around. Then the Local police found out and was put into confinement from 1991 until today.

I thank God for the great blessings He has bestowed unto me, that now I'm free. I told the jail officials about God, about the love that we all can endure. And that's why I'm free, because they understand.

After being released I found out that the man who put me in jail shortly died after sentencing me. No one knows what he died of.

I hope that other jail officials can come to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as I hope to show them so that they too can understand [us] so that we can be free from what they force us to worship.

I praise the Lord for your daily broadcast. We have learned a lot from your good news. Thank you.

(Hmong from North Vietnam) [V-0496-3-P]

Thank God for your daily broadcast that we listen to every day and night. Every day more and more come to listen.

You must help us however, Pastor. There is much difference that is evolving between the believers and we don't know what to do! Because of the wisdom that we lack in understanding the Lord, some of us have been arrested and don't know what to do.

Here are just some things that we have faced: There are members in the church who are abusing their bodies with cigarettes and drugs such as opium. When we question them about their habits they stop only to come back to their old ways. The more and more that we complain, the less people show up at church.

Then these people go to the government and accuses us of our "unholy' and "untraditional" practices. They also lied about the tithing money, that all the church leaders used it to benefit the Lord. See, we're forced to give the money to the government, so this has only angered them.

The government is making many bad marks and allegations against our believers and they claim to have seen nothing of this practice in North Vietnam.

And now most of our church leaders are in jail. We know that Satan is constantly trying to break us. Pray that this problem will soon end.

One last thing. You now that the price of money is very low in North Vietnam. Now, when we get a huge donation, we can't put it in a church safe so it's passed on to several leaders to take care of at home. There is no bank where we live. Is this correct in morality? Thank you for answering this.

(Hmong from Laos) [L-0496-4-P]

If you were to look at the map of the country of Laos, and you were to spot the city that I live in, you'd notice that I live very close to the border of Laos and Vietnam.

I thank the Lord for your broadcast, that I am able to come to know the Lord. But at this time we are facing a very volatile situation. The government has sent a patrol to come watch us. They have prohibited us from worshipping the Lord and if they see us worshipping the Lord, they will persecute us. As you know of course, the Christian practice is prohibited.

Because if the circumstances that we are facing, we have stopped all the services and prayer meetings we hold true to the Lord. I have been selected to be the church leader of this year but I cannot face the reality that we are in. If they find out then I would be arrested.

Now the only thing that I can do, is to secretly copy your programs on to a tape and give it to other people in the village. This would be safe and no one would know. I have already started this however. Why, some people walk for a mile just to get these tapes. Of course it would be easier if I had the literature. I wouldn't need to constantly erase over the words like I do on a tape to give to others. So may you send some literature? Thanks.

If possible, I would like to have a speed tape copier (At least a radio with dual cassette player). I need something that would enable me to copy tapes quickly so others can hear what you have to say when they are not there or are working. Understand, what I'm doing is free so that everyone can know the Lord.

Keep on broadcasting sir. We need all the good news we can get.