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Conversations with Dr. Anh
To help us to understand, Dr. Anh told the story of a time she was called to a village to attempt to treat an 89-year-old woman who was dying. Dr. Anh explained that after she had examined the woman and had given the woman the only medicine she had to offer for her condition, the woman asked her if she would get better. She told the woman, "Now, it is out of my hands. The outcome is dependent 50% on the medicine and 50% on Jesus." With tears in her eyes, Dr. Anh relates the woman's response. "Who is Jesus?" the woman asked. "It was like cold water thrown in my face," Dr. Anh remembered. "This question has come back to me many times over the years. It was not her fault that she didn't know. There are over 80 million Vietnamese people and only 1% know Jesus Christ as their Savior. Some have gone their whole lives without knowing or having known about Jesus. This is not their mistake. This is our mistake. It is our responsibility to share Jesus." Dr. Anh continues, "After the war we were not allowed to have a church, but we were patient and prayed. But since 1995 we have been able to have churches and we know that harvest time is here, now!" Dr. Anh tells us of the importance of the Khe Sanh orphanage succeeding. She writes, "The ethnic people of the mountain area around Khe Sanh do not speak traditional Vietnamese. This makes taking the gospel message to them more difficult. The children in our orphanage are from the villages of the ethnic people. Although our immediate goal is to care for the abandoned children who would be passed from home-to-home at the mercy of whoever finds them, there is more. We believe that when these children are grown, they will return to their villages and teach their people about Jesus Christ. But for now, we are their parents and their family. Without us, the children have no one." |
We asked, "What would you like people in America to know about the importance
of increasing Mission Vietnam's work?"
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