Responses from Hmong Listeners

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(Hmong from Laos)

First of all I want to thank you for sending the love of Christ to us every day through the radio. You always encourage us to trust in the Lord even though we do not have a pastor; we still want to serve Jesus Christ.

As a church leader I desperately urge you to explain and teach us more about the subject of the true doctrine. There are more than one source when it comes to trying to learn about Jesus and we hope that you can rid our confusion by clarifying many of the subjects that we face everyday.

One of the most confusion topics among us is from some of the Hmong pastor in the US regarding the use of God's name. Now we know that we can name Jesus as Jesus and call God as is. However there has been a source that claims that we can only call God and Jesus by the old Hebrew names of Yshua Ha Mashiakh and YHWH. According to the source, if we do not call the Lord and God by these names we will suffer the torments of hell. Can you place your thoughts on this?

Another confusing subject is forgiveness from the Catholic point of view. They claims that we can do anything victoriously: adultery, stealing, smoking, etc … as long as we ask for forgiveness from the priest, then we would be able to continue to do whatever we want to. They claim that you can do whatever you want and as long as you come back then you are okay.

We have heard from you teaching and the doctrine of Christ it follows is simply very different. Please address these subjects on radio to clarify for us. Thank you.

(Hmong from Laos)

This is my first time that I have written to you. Hopefully my letter will reach you safely. I want to let both of you know that my father passed away a few years ago and I live with my mother now. Both of us are very poor compared to the other people in my area. Whenever I see other families surrounding me I sometimes feel very empty inside and it makes me sad and I cry.

I want to offer my thanks to both of you. We have been listening to your broadcast with friends for a while and now both of us have decided to accept Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and savior. Ever since we have come to know our Lord God and savior we are filled with happiness and joyful heart. We might be poor physically but spiritually we are rich in his love.

The church leaders also have elected me to become the youth leader. I am still a teenage girl but I promise to Jesus Christ that I will try me best and use all of my energy to serve Him.

Would both of you pray that someday God will provide me with a lovely Christian husband?

Finally, do you have a Hmong Bible and some other scripture tapes that you have so I can know what to teach and how to teach better for our youth? If so I would appreciate having some knowledge in front of me. Thanks.

(Hmong from Laos)

I am a single woman and I am still practicing shamanism as my parents taught me. Even though I have never missed one single program or your Christian broadcast I have learned a lot of information from your teaching. Please pray that someday my family and I will fully understand Jesus' s love and come to believe in Him.

With this letter I would like to have some of your scripture teaching tapes/ Please send some for me that I can learn more about Jesus and what I can do for the future. Do you also have any Christian songs?

Lastly, what kind of man should I marry and what I should look for in a husband? If you have any answers or commandments to help me with please send them back to me. Thanks.

(Hmong from Laos)

This is my second letter that I written to you. Thank you very much for your daily broadcast and all of the literature that you sent me. These things have benefited my family and church.

Each one of your programs has really touched our lives. We praise the Lord for your daily teaching has lead us in God's way. At this time we don't have a pastor so we depend on your teachings of the radio to help lead us in our way towards Christ. Keep on broadcasting His word so many more people like us can follow on His way.

(Hmong from Laos)

This is my first letter that I am writing to you. I became a Christian listening through your daily broadcast, ten years ago. Whenever I was in doubt about a question, you were always there to help me with the answer!

I thank God and FEBC for sending Christ's love to all of us in Laos. Many of us have come to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ because of listening to your daily program. A lot of us really depend on it as our sole source of teaching and learning.

We pray that God will continue to provide funds for FEBC so that the daily broadcast will continue to air as usual.

Since we don't have a pastor would you send whatever you can - literature or scripture teaching tapes, so that I can share the information with other believers. Thanks.