In many countries
throughout Southeast Asia,
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the highland regions are settled
by semi nomadic people groups
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known as hill tribe people
or ethnic minority groups.
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The mountainous areas of Vietnam
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are home to 15
different ethnic groups...
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not restricted by cultural
or family ties to Buddhism
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and spiritual by nature,
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these minority groups are very
receptive to the gospel message.
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Whole villages are
accepting Christ as their savior
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and are worshiping God together
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as a result of God working
through national missionaries
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sent out by Adventist
Southeast Asia Projects.
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Hi, my name is Jee Wong
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and I'm one of
the many ambassadors
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that are
representing the ASAP Ministry.
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What is the truth?
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Do you know the truth?
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How do you know what
you believe in is the truth?
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Is it that beautiful
hymn that you listen to
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that brought tears to your eyes?
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Or is it the sermon that
makes your heart tremble?
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Many people in this world
are asking what is the truth?
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I did when I
grew up as a Buddhist
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there are many,
many different gods
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in the world that I lived in
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and I was not convinced that any
of them could give me salvation
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until I found a
Savior Jesus Christ.
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I knew that He come to
save me and to redeem me.
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Just very recently
I have the opportunity
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to visit Southeast Asia
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and to listen and to
share many, many of my testimony
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to the people in Southeast Asia.
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And in return these people
shared their testimonies with me
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and here are their testimonies.
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One night a few years ago
I had a very unusual dream.
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In my dream I saw a long line
of elephants coming to my home.
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They were being
ridden and lead by people
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from the ethnic
villages in the mountains.
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They came so close
to my wife and myself
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and I feared that
we might be trampled.
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I was strongly impressed
that this was no ordinary dream
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and that God was trying to
send me an important message.
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I decided to share the
dream with my regional leader
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to see if he could help
me sort out the meaning.
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The truly remarkable thing
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is that my wife had the very
same dream the very same night,
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and had also gone separately
to see our regional pastor.
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We were all impressed
that God was leading us
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to start a work
with the ethnic villages.
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As these tribal people live
in areas that are very sensitive
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and the
government is not like people
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from the outside
visiting the villages.
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We wondered how
we might go about
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entering this
region of the country.
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For the next two years we
fervently prayed for guidance
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as to how we might
start a work there.
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The very first ethnic group
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that we were able
to make contact with,
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we received opposition,
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the police threw
tear gas into the place
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where we were
meeting to disperse us.
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We did not feel it
was wise to go back
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and work with
these people right away,
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but we were not
discouraged, we just prayed.
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Later, as we
started up our work again,
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we encountered the
police opposition many times.
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We made a number of
trips into remote areas
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where we had to hike up
treacherous mountain slopes
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in order to reach the villages.
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We had many near
death experiences,
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but we were confident
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that angels were
watching over us the whole time.
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God continually gives us
wisdom in how to do this work.
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Sometimes, I would disguise
myself as the chicken seller
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in order to get
into the villages.
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God opened up the way for me
to do much teaching and training
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to build up leaders who
were strong in the truth.
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After sometime we felt impressed
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that in order to
be truly effective
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we would have to go and
live and work among the people.
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We are now seeing the
results of patiently praying
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and holding on to
the dream God gave us.
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My wife and I cannot
thank the Lord enough
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even now as we think
of all that has happened
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in these past four years,
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we know that we could
not do this ourselves.
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It has to be power of the Lord.
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Yes, only God could
bring about the miracles
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that occurred in the
past year in Vietnam.
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I believe this was a
result of fasting and prayer.
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Even though pastor and Mrs. Bai
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and the ASAP partners
were half a world away,
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God's spirit united us
as we earnestly pleaded
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on behalf of the many souls
seeking for truth in Vietnam.
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You just saw the amazing way
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God revealed His plan to
pastor and Mrs. Bai in a dream.
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One dream would
be easy to dismiss
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but the same dream
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given to both husband
and wife on the same night,
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now that one
must take notice off.
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In the rest of this video
you get to see the results.
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You will meet
four secrets of truth,
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earnest students of God's word.
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Pastor and Mrs. Bai studied
the Bible with these individuals
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and they in
turn shared the truth
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from God's word
with their people.
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Do you believe God's promise
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which says, "You
will seek Me and find Me
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when you search for
Me with all your heart."
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If you have not found Christ,
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I encourage you to
seek Him with all your heart
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and you will find Him
as many are in Vietnam.
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This promise took on
a new dimension for me
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after I heard
firsthand the stories
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you will see in this video.
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It's hard to
describe this experience.
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And for their safety we had to
blur the images in this video,
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but one thing I can say
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their quest for
truth touched my heart.
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I could not hold back
the constant stream of tears
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that flowed down my cheeks,
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tears of sadness as they relayed
the suffering they experienced.
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And tears of joy as
they shared the difference
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finding the truth
made in their lives.
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I praise God that in
a matter of eight months
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over 2,000 ethnic tribal people
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accepted the
truth of the Sabbath
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as a result of God working
through pastor and Mrs. Bai.
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I encourage you
pray and ask God.
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Lord, what can I do to share
with those who are seeking?
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I have always believed that
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there must be a
God in this universe,
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but I didn't
know who that God was.
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When I was in high
school my friend's son taught me
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that the Supreme
Being and Jesus were one.
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This was hard for me accept,
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but I still held on to my belief
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in a Supreme Being
who looks over all.
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One day I received the news that
my baby daughter was not well
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and needed medical attention.
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I rushed home and when I
saw that my daughter's condition
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was very serious, I
cried out in desperation.
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If there is a
God please heal her.
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If You heal her she is Yours.
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If You don't heal
her, I'll accept that too.
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My daughter got better
and we praised God together.
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Sometime later
she got sick again.
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My family members believed
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that it was because of
some bad spirit in her,
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they wanted to
worship the demons
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and ask them to heal her.
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When I heard
that I got very upset
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and destroyed their altars
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before they could
conduct the ritual.
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After I stood for the
truth and got rid of the idols,
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my daughter
immediately got well.
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Right then and there, I
resolved to keep my promise
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and serve Jesus
the rest of my life.
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I began to study my
Bible and pray a lot.
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I was convicted that God
wanted me to share my faith.
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I began talking
to people one by one.
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I started a small group that has
now grown to eight church groups
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with a total
membership of 350 people.
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I've
encountered much persecution
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since I decided to work for God.
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We've been beaten severely
by the local authorities.
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Even though I have
documents from the government,
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it doesn't seem to
mean anything to them.
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They come to my house
and check on our activities.
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In the past they
would hang my members up
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by a rope with their
arms tied behind their backs.
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They would do this for hours
and then abruptly let them go.
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When they would fall to
the ground they would yell.
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Will you give up your faith?
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We would say no,
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then they would string us back
up for another couple of hours.
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This happened again and again.
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My members had no option
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but to flee from the
area to a neighboring village.
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The Bible teaches us
to forgive our enemies
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and I don't have any
harsh feelings towards them
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for what they have done.
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I used to have nightmares
about these experiences,
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but I don't anymore.
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It is my prayer that
all the ethnic people
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in my country
will become believers.
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Please pray for this.
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The Bible says, "That
if we trust in the Lord,
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He will protect us."
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I praise God that four of my
groups are now Sabbath keepers.
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Please pray for me
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as I carefully teach
the other four groups
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about the truth of the Sabbath.
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Before I was a Christian
I worshiped my ancestors.
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I had pictures
of my grandparents
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and great grandparents
on front of an altar.
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I tried to communicate with them
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and believed that
they would bless me.
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I believed that they had
a super power to protect me.
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After I became a believer
in Christ I had a new life,
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but it was hard in the beginning
because I was without a Bible.
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I prayed and asked God
that He would help me find one.
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I felt so happy and so blessed
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that the Lord gave me a
Bible after six months time.
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It is the most
precious book that I had.
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One of my favorite text
is John 14:1-3 which says,
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"Let not your heart be troubled,
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you believe in
God, believe also in Me.
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In My Father's
house are many mansions,
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if it were not so,
I would have told you.
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I go to prepare a place for you.
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And if I go I'll
prepare a place for you,
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I will come again and
receive you unto myself,
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that where I am,
there you may be also."
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This passage gives me peace
and hope for a better life.
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When I first became a Christian,
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believers were
often put in jail.
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When I became a
worker for the Lord,
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I was persecuted
and fined heavily.
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The officers would
ask me questions like,
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why do you believe in God?
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How do you pray?
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I would answer.
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I kneel down and
pray and call on God.
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Because I said I would kneel
and my turn head heavenward,
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they forced me to my knees
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and put a bowl of
water on my forehead
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and ordered me to pray
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so that my God would keep
the bowl of water from falling.
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I knelt as long as I
could but when I lost my balance
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they kicked me and beat me.
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At moments like
this I thought seriously
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about moving away from the area,
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but I could not leave the
faithful members under my care.
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I trusted in the
power of the Lord,
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God's promises in the Bible
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gave me the
strength I needed to go on
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and do the work of
spreading the gospel.
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When the members saw
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how I endured these
trials with the police,
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their faith grew and so
the authorities realized
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that there was
nothing that they could do
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to stop us from worshiping God.
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They also saw that we were
gentle and harmless to them.
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They are now
letting us worship in peace.
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After further study I became a
Seventh-day Adventist Christian.
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I found out about the church
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from listening to the
sermons of Pastor Isaiah
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on the Peace and
Happiness radio broadcast.
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After some time I felt prepared
to share the Sabbath truth
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with the four church
groups that I care for.
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We studied the word
of God intently together
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on this new
teaching that I had learned.
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Now, all 300 of my
members have accepted
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the truths of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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Recently on my
way to a Bible study,
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my moped caught on fire
because of mechanical problems.
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I was able to jump off
quick and was not hurt,
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but my moped was
damaged beyond repair.
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My church
members are so spread out
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that it really limited what
I was able to do for a while.
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It was a real answer to prayer
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to receive a
new moped from ASAP.
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Now I'm able to easily visit
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all of the church
members in my district.
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You know, that in Southeast
Asia that the minority people
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still receive a lot of
discrimination and oppression.
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During the past 12
years I have many evidences
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how these people have
been treated by the authority.
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They don't have the privilege,
they are not human being.
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They are very poor.
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Education, they don't
have the opportunity for that.
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And they are very
limited in their movement
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from one area to another.
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At this moment I have
many requests in Vietnam.
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Now only in one language group,
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but we have at least 10 language
groups request for Bibles,
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for DVD, for Megavoice
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so they can learn the message
of the Bible in their area.
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You know, one
village with a 150 members,
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there are only two Bibles
available for these people.
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It is very hard to buy
Bible through the government,
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even though the government
permits to print a Bible,
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but somehow with our
house-church movement
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because we are
spreading so fast,
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wherever we come in
we want to buy the Bible,
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they refuse to sell to us.
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So we have to have a way to
have the Bible for our people.
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So if you are
touched by the Holy Spirit
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to help in these
areas of the gospel,
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I pray that the Lord
will guide you, will lead you,
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will impress your
heart, to help these people.
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I promise you
that every donation,
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I will make it
possible for the Bible
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going to these people groups.
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Every materials
that I can develop,
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we will use every cent for this,
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to bring the message of
our God to these people.
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And may the Lord bless
you and thank you so much
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for your prayer,
for your support.
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Without your
support and your prayer,
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we couldn't make it.
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Together, we can do
this for our heavenly Father.
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Thank you so much.
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We met Pastor Bai and
his wife from family friends
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who had been taking
Bible studies from them.
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I studied the truths
of the Sabbath with them
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for three weeks praying and
asking God what was the truth?
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They gave me DVD's and
other materials to study.
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I understand Vietnamese,
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so I was able to read
the books that they gave me,
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but at first it was
like a giant puzzle.
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Little by little the
pieces came together.
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After careful study of
all of the Bible passages
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that were presented
in the study materials,
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my heart was convicted
and I accepted it as truth.
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I was excited to teach the
members in my six churches,
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four of my churches with
a total membership of 600
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have accepted the teachings
and now worship on Saturday.
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The remaining two
villages are in remote areas
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and it is hard to reach them,
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but we are praying that
they too will accept the truth.
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I'm a farmer and
grow rice, corn and yucca.
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We do not have any irrigation
system or a well in our village.
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We depend completely on
the blessing of the Lord.
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When I became a Sabbath keeper,
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I made a commitment
to rest on the Sabbath.
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The Lord has blessed
me with a good harvest
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ever since I started
keeping His sacred day.
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Many in my
village often suffered
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from shortages
of water and food.
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It is not unusual for the people
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to be out of food
for three to four months.
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When this happens they have
to dig for roots in the forest.
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My church members and I
along with other lay pastors
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and believers have all
suffered for our faith.
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Vietnam is run by a
communist government.
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They are saying to the world
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that they are giving
religious freedom for people
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to worship
according to their faith.
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Unfortunately, these
freedoms are not shared
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equally to all people
throughout the whole county.
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Ethnic people still suffer a lot
of restrictions and persecution.
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The military here have
burned our members' houses.
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People are forced to
flee deeper into the jungle.
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When the government finds out
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who the Adventist
Church members are
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they cut off their benefits
and they no longer receive food.
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When they find out that we
do not drink, smoke or eat pork
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they try to force us to do
these things to make fun of us.
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I praise God that the
members stay faithful to Him
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and hold on to their beliefs.
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Another way that the police
try to discourage our faith
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is to fine us if they catch
us worshiping God together.
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Recently, when a
large group of believers
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were meeting in my house,
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officers charged in and fined
me 500,000 Vietnamese dong.
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Fortunately I was able to borrow
some money and pay the fine.
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They let me go that time,
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but told me that if I gather
people together to worship again
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they would fine me 1 million
dong, which is about $130.
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This is about
the amount of money
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that my members
make in a whole year.
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If we cannot pay the fine
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they force us to work in
the forest chopping wood.
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It takes about six months
of work to pay off the fine.
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This is a heavy
burden on the members
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and we do everything that
we can to avoid the police.
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We rotate our place of
worship and keep a close watch.
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Many times we have to flee into
the jungle to avoid capture.
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I'm taking care of two groups
with a total of 150 members
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that are now all
keeping the Sabbath.
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I praise God that
brother Bai and his wife
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taught us about
the Sabbath truth.
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Here's how it happened.
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One day I was cutting
bamboo at my brother's house
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when Pastor Bai
stopped in to visit him.
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I was curious why he was there,
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so I stopped working and I
went over to where they were.
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When I saw that they were
studying the Bible together
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I asked if I could join them.
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The things that
they were talking about
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I had never heard before.
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As we study together
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the Holy Spirit
moved upon my heart
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and I began to
understand more about God
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and that the seventh day
was the true day of worship.
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When Pastor Bai
asked me who my leader was,
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I eagerly told him and together
we went to visit my pastor
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and study with my church
group in a nearby village.
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I wanted Pastor Bai to explain
these exciting beliefs to them.
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Someone must have reported
their visit to the police
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because during our meeting they
came and arrested brother Bai.
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They also brought me
into the police station
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and interrogated
me about his visit.
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They released brother Bai but
notified the city police station
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to arrest him and his wife again
at the foot of the mountain.
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They withheld their documents
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and required them to pay
2 million Vietnamese dong
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as a fine for doing evangelistic
work without license.
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The pastor and I gathered
our group of 100 people together
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to pray for pastor and Mrs. Bai.
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To our surprise
later that same day
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who should walk into our church
but Pastor Bai and his wife,
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right after being released
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they had come right back
up the mountain to visit us.
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They patiently explained
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the truths found
in the Bible with us.
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I could not believe that I had
never seen these truths before,
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but I'm confident
that it was the Holy Spirit
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who revealed these
things to us through Pastor Bai.
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Ever since we
became Sabbath keepers
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my family has been
happy and at peace.
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I definitely believe that
it is the blessing of the Lord.
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As of now about
half of my members
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worship on the Sabbath day
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and half that
still worship on Sunday.
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Please pray that the other half
will come to accept the truth.
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Ever since we started
worshiping on the Sabbath
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the police have
tried to catch us
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but they have not succeeded yet.
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Twice they have
come to arrest me
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since I'm the
leader of the group.
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But both times I've
been away for training.
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One of these times
they searched my house
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and found one of my cell phones.
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From the phone they were
able to gather the numbers
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of Pastor Bai and
other Adventist leaders.
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Please pray for their safety.
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I will always trust God and
thank Him for revealing truth
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about His
character and His law to me.
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I will always follow Him.
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I hope you have been
inspired by the stories
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about how the Holy
Spirit revealed truth
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to our faithful
Vietnamese brothers and sisters.
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My heart has moved
when I hear their stories.
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The ASAP missionaries
have heard the call of Christ.
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For them to
respond to Christ call
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means to leave all,
sell all and forsake all.
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They make tremendous
sacrifices to follow Christ
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and to bring the light of
truth to those who are seeking.
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In Testimonies
Volume 9, Page 103, it says,
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"It was the Savior's purpose
that after He ascended to heaven
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to become man's intercessor,
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His followers should carry
on the work that He had begun.
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Shall the human agent
show no special interest
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in giving the light
of the gospel message
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to those who sit in darkness?
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There are some who are willing
to go to the ends of the earth
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in order to carry the
light of truth to men,
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but God demands that every soul
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who knows the truth
shall seek to win others
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to the love of the truth.
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If we are not willing
to make special sacrifices
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in order to save souls
that are ready to perish,
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how can we be counted worthy
to enter into the city of God?
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Friends, we want to invite you
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to partner with ASAP in
taking the gospel to Vietnam.
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Most are not called to
make the same kind of sacrifice
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that the missionaries
are making in Vietnam.
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Nevertheless there are
sacrifices that we all can make.
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We can seize the
great opportunities
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we have to help save the lost
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now while we can
by whole heartedly
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giving of our financial
resources and of our time.
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Your dollars go
far in Southeast Asia.
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It cost only $5 to supply
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the word of God
to a seeker of truth.
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It takes only $70
to send a missionary
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into the right
fields of Vietnam.
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$65 will provide a house-church
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a DVD player and a set of
DVD's filled with God's truth.
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$850 will purchase a
moped for a lay pastor
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and bring the gospel
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to many more
neighboring towns and villages.
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For questions and donations
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please contact Adventist
Southeast Asia Projects.
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I thank the Lord for Jee Wong,
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a gifted pianist who finds
great joy in using his talents,
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to spread the word about
what God is doing through ASAP.
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Our ambassadors are people
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with a passion and a
spirit of volunteerism.
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We are grateful for each one
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who uses their time and
talents for God's glory.
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Our ASAP
ambassadors work in many ways.
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We have prayer partners,
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people that host
benefit concerts,
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mission trip participants,
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speakers and camp
meeting representatives.
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ASAP would not be what it is
today without our ambassadors.
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If you feel that
God is calling you
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to serve as an ASAP
ambassador please contact us.
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As you hear Jee play "Savior,
like a Shepherd Lead Us.
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It is my prayer that Jesus would
be the shepherd of your life
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and that He
would guide your steps.
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