FROM CHRISTIANITY TODAY:
Finding Sobriety — and Jesus — in Vietnam’s Christian Drug Rehabs
In Vietnam, approximately 60 Christian-run drug rehabilitation centers are achieving remarkable success by combining abstinence, Bible study, and prayer. These centers report numerous instances of individuals overcoming addiction and transforming their lives, often becoming pastors, spouses, and active community members. One such example is Hung Quang Pham, a former heroin user with AIDS, who experienced physical healing and a renewed purpose through faith. The effectiveness of these programs has drawn the attention of Vietnam’s communist government, which has struggled with the high relapse rates and human rights concerns associated with its compulsory treatment centers. The government is now exploring the methods employed by these Christian facilities to address the nation’s addiction crisis.
Buddhist World
Buddhism is growing in many Asian countries and people in the West are turning to Buddhism in unprecedented numbers. Discover how the message of God’s love is spreading in the Buddhist world and how you can play a part in God’s great plan to reach Buddhists.
The Prayercast website provides helpful resources for praying for Buddhists.
Navigators Missionaries Use Farm For Outreach
FROM ALBIA NEWSPAPERS:
Navigators Missionaries Use Farm For Outreach
Tom and Ai Van Sickel have lived as a married couple in Tsukuba, Japan for over two decades. As global workers with Navigators World Missions, they lead small-group Bible studies and use their 3/4-acre farm to reach out to their Japanese friends and neighbors. The Moravian Union reports that the Van Sickel Farm Tsukuba includes over 1,300 blueberry trees, 300 blackberry bushes, and 300 raspberry bushes, along with lavender, kiwi, and honeybee hives. They sell their fruit from a hut on the farm and at the local farmers’ market, and they have also started shipping their produce to other areas of Japan. Their farm has thus become a platform for outreach to the city of Tsukuba!
Visit the Albia Newspapers Website to read this story entitled Faith & Farming
Photo courtesy of Wadim L. Used by permission.
Pandemic Creates Gospel Opportunity in Vietnam
FROM MISSION NETWORK NEWS:
Vietnam (MNN) — The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unexpected opportunity for the spread of the Gospel in Vietnam. Amid the crisis, the Church began reaching out to meet people’s physical needs, which led to opportunities to share Christian teachings. This activity was noticed by the government, which subsequently allowed the Billy Graham Association to hold festivals.
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He Sets the Lonely in Families
In Japan, if you are lonely, you don’t have to be alone. You can rent a family or friends. Loneliness has reached epidemic proportions in Japanese society, but God has a cure for the epidemic. He is a “father to the fatherless, a defender of widows,” and He “sets the lonely in families.” And He is sending a gregarious, joy-filled family to Japan to plant a community of believers that will become a family where God will place the lonely.
Church Planting Along a Japanese Travel Corridor
The church has a history of using travel-related infrastructure for the rapid dissemination of the gospel. Just as the apostolic band made strategic use of the Roman system of roads, the Tsukuba Express line in Japan represents a strategic opportunity today. Assemblies of God missionaries Chris and Lindsey Carter, along with their developing church-planting team, are taking advantage of that opportunity.
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Hope in the Land of the Rising Sun
Over 43,000 children and teenagers in Tsukuba, Japan — raised in an honor-shame culture — are desperately in need of hope. Who will tell them of Jesus and His love? Who will tell them of the sun of righteousness who rises with healing in his wings? Josh and Erin McCoin, Assemblies of God missionary associates, have answered God’s call! Learn how God has uniquely qualified them to reach children and youth in Japan for Jesus!
Using Media To Reach The Lost In Japan
Justin Canavan has a wealth of experience in using creative media. He has served as a videographer, producer, director, camera operator, lighting director, stage manager, tech team facilitator, director of photography, etc. He graduated cum laude from Evangel University with a Bachelor of Science in Film with minors in Broadcasting and Biblical Studies. But in all his experience, you will find two common threads: 1) he uses creative media to spread the gospel; and, 2) an obvious love for the people of Japan.
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Jesus Knows Their Names
In a 2010 paper written for the Cape Town 2010 Congress of the Lausanne Movement, S. Kent Parks and John Scott deliver an impassioned plea for the “Forgotten Fourth” — the almost 2 billion people without access to the gospel. These “separate peoples” are mostly Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist, and include significant urban populations.
