God adds new Vietnamese Believers in Thailand to the Kingdom
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Visitation and Prayer during Chinese New Year
Missionaries Narong and Tinh have welcomed many new Vietnamese believers into their church plant in Thailand. During visitation in the Chinese New Year, five people accepted Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior. On March 10th, Tinh baptized seven people.
Before giving her life to Christ, Nong, one newly baptized believer, was full of anger, impatience and disrespect toward her parents, said Rev. Roland Lumawag, Regional Coordinator for the Asia Pacific Region. Nong was paralysed and had lost her ability to speak. “Many times,” Rev. Lumawag said, Nong “heard from … pastors who testified about the good news of salvation …, but she [wouldn’t] listen to them. Instead she angrily sent them away,” he reported.
Then, according to Rev. Lumawag, Phi Narong and Phi Tinh, who came from Vietnam, told Nong about the kingdom of God, and “she had the feeling within her heart that desire to listen to them until she decided to accept and invite Jesus to come into her heart.” Nong experienced an improvement in her physical condition after continued visitation and prayer by Phi Narong and Phi Tinh. She said, “Not only I did experience physical healing, but Jesus has changed my inner life.”
After that, Phi Narong and Phi Tinh continued visiting Nong and prayed for healing of her paralytic condition. “God answered the prayer,” they said, and Nong “experienced God’s healing power.”
Another newly baptized couple, Po and Ying, “had been attending church but never had a personal relationship with Jesus Christ,” said Rev. Lumawag. In December 2018, they accepted Christ as their personal Lord and Savior by faith. “We are both thankful to the Lord of knowing Christ personally in our lives, not just going to church.” After their baptism, said Rev. Lumawag, God inspired them to serve the Lord through music ministry in their fellowship to bring more Vietnamese-Thai youth to Christ.
The Vietnamese church plant in Thailand was established in April 2018.