Here are excerpts of my written thoughts when we were in Vietnam. I wrote 3 parts of it, here's the first one:
Wednesday
Kathy and I are sitting here in the buffet area of Western
Hanoi Hotel where our TenDays team is staying at.
We resolved to write down the things that have been
happening for the past 6 days we are in Vietnam .
God has been so faithful and amazing! We are overwhelmed on how He is opening
our eyes to see the landscape that this nation is in… First impression doesn’t
last, I’ll tell you that. We thought that we would just be engaging students,
and one of our fears is that the people here would be aloof to foreigners given
their history, but they are so open!
Just last Monday, we went to one of the universities there…
Kathy immediately engaged one of the students, then I joined in, little by
little our small group of 4 started getting bigger that by the end of 30
minutes of chatting with each, we became a group of 10! To say that they
gravitate toward foreigners would be an understatement, they are so friendly
that they will go out of their way to meet with you…
Case in point, after adding them on Facebook, they asked to
meet up again so we can chat more (Vietnamese love to chat), so a day and time
has been set… and we are now an hour and a half away from meeting them near
their university.
Their receptiveness is a wide-open door for the gospel that
we are planning to take advantage of. It is so opposite to how we are (or maybe
I am just speaking for myself here) in Manila ,
wherein we are discouraged to talk to strangers and foreigners… Like I doubt I
would be so friendly and bold to meet up with people I barely know no matter
how seemingly nice they are. My parents would always caution us to be careful
and vigilant… so this openness of the people here in Vietnam
is a God-moment!
Rewind a couple of days back and one of the leaders in
Manila gave our team a prophecy that we would be meeting many girls at a place
where people eat… and when I was talking to one of the girls in the university
to set a place as to where we will meet today, our conversation went something
like this:
HER: we intends to take you to Guom
Lake
but it is a bit far from my
university
moreover,we don't have much time
ME: No its okay, we dont want to
take up much of your time especially when you're busy with school.
We can just hangout at a nearby
place in your school.
Where do you suggest?
HER: do you like DING TEA or
canteen on our domirity?
I had goosebumps after reading her reply… because the
invitation came from her, so the prophecy just clicked making us just
dumbstruck-ed on the awesomeness of God! We really hope and pray that we will be
able to minister to these women today and plug them into one of the local
leaders here in Hanoi .
God is in the business of setting divine appointments. He
goes before us, showing up in our dreams and visions that we may get a glimpse
of His glory.
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