SOUL VN

Your prayers and support have played a role in the most spiritually rewarding Christmas Vietnam has ever experienced! Several of our churches were involved in Christmas outreach events in the churches and in some cases even in public venues!!! The results of the events are testimony to the great harvest God has prepared for this time.

In the last couple of years, a couple of public Christmas celebrations have been held with the permission of officials. This year an event was organized to occur in Saigon by house church leaders. A permit was requested to have the event and host 3,000 people. The permit was granted but was based on the plan for 3,000 people to attend. To the surprise of nearly everyone other than our Lord, an estimated 40,000 people arrived for the event!!!! The number was an all time record for a public Christian event in Vietnam. The communist officials were taken aback and didn't know what to think. As the people came streaming in, officials stopped and turned away more attendees who were arriving in buses full of people!!!

Each of the 40,000 souls were amazingly blessed in an amazing outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Testimonies have been reported that the gospel was clearly preached and our Lord was lifted up. The climax of the celebration was an invitation in which approximately 8,000 people made a public profession to honor Jesus Christ as Lord and trust Him for their salvation.

At our partner churches the Lord glorified Himself in similar ways. Hundreds were in attendance at an event being held by a small group which meets in a home. The ministry was opened a couple of years ago, hasn't received a permit for a building, and WAS a small group of believers. It is being led by believers who travel long distances to minister on the weekends.

An event planned by some of the Pastors we partner with was to take place at a public venue. There was much opposition. Our brothers and sisters planned extensively for the event and were hopeful that the permit would be approved. Being perseverant amidst a difficult situation, our brothers and sisters decided to continue with the celebration at the church site when learning that the permit would not be granted. In addition to denying the permit the government officials went as far as to close down the country’s major highway at the two points of entrance into the city.

The traffic was stopped, but the celebration was not. In another demonstration of God's great power and love, approximately 3,000 people moved by our Lord with a passion for Truth and His glory, came to the church. Their courage demonstrated our Lord to be more valuable than comfort and safety in this fleeting passing world. We are overwhelmed by the harvest around the country and we are excited to see how this demonstration of God's passion for Vietnam will inspire others to join our efforts. I have attached some reports from various sources for your encouragement. Please pray for the following:


Gratitude and praise for blessings through S.O.U.L. VN Ministry in 2009.

Spiritual growth and diligence for the new believers recently won to the Lord.
Wisdom and grace as SOUL expands in 2010.

Empowerment for the Pastors and Church Planters.

Without enough time to count His blessings...

truly yours,

Public Relations Director


"Dear Friends and Family, We are experiencing the goodness of the Lord and celebrating the saving power of JESUS this Christmas! This most recent update is our final one from Vietnam where we have seen the most dramatic outpouring of God’s Spirit on a nation ready for spiritual harvest. We were able to purchase our airline tickets for Hanoi, at the last moment this past week, as generous partners in ministry provided for this urgent need. God was victorious, even in the face of adversity and opposition, and we sang in several outreach events- culminating with a gathering of 15,000+ in the heart of Hanoi! We have enclosed pictures for you, but it is nearly impossible to adequately describe the historic, groundbreaking nature of these events.

This is a Christmas we will never forget as we saw thousands of people running toward the stage to give their hearts to Christ! We personally saw miracles of healing as a blind woman received her sight and as a brain-damaged young man spoke his first words with our 14 year-old son, Bryson, laying his hands on the young man’s head. He said. . .”Thank You Jesus!” We were amazed at the holy boldness manifested by leadership and unashamedly proclaimed by Vietnamese Pastors. Once again, we saw another picture of the early church from the book of Acts arising out of persecution. One of the leaders told us that “the blood of his martyred grandparents has watered the soil for this GREAT HARVEST!!”

We shared in ministry with a house church meeting in a large restaurant facility on Sunday where we saw how God has been laying the groundwork for this mighty move in the north of Vietnam. People had lost hope for deliverance from their oppression over many decades of hardship. Drug and alcohol addiction has been rampant in this region, yet we heard testimonies from more than 50% of our crowd Sunday morning that had been healed of drug addictions. One young man had stage 4 AIDS and was healed on the spot when he received Jesus into his life! We saw a little baby who had been born to a HIV-infected mother and had shared her blood supply during pregnancy. In an act of miraculous protection, the baby was born without HIV and was a beautiful, healthy little baby girl. Now, even a prominent leader’s son has been delivered from substance abuse and the Christian movement and the power of Jesus has gained credibility in its ability to produce positive change for all the people.

The large venue at the stadium was just ONE MORE PROOF that God shows up when His people are in unity. This event was accomplished, unhindered, even though final permission was never granted by the government. NO ONE was sure what officials might do. We were told that leaders were ready to give their lives for this event and had “put their affairs in order” with family knowing they could be put to death. Even with these sobering possibilities, everyone seemed intent on what GOD was doing and we were not afraid. Once again, we were the first American music group to ever be involved in a gathering like this and a ministering Christian musical family was a powerful tool to gain the attention of Vietnam!

A message of positive family relationships, sexual purity for young people and commitment to Christ seems absolutely irresistible, even to government officials. We were amazed to watch as these Pastors and leaders boldly stood arm-in-arm across the platform and read their “Declaration of [Spiritual] Independence” from bondages. Eight points were read, including a renouncing of idol worship, ancestral worship and pagan worship of “the dragon” and “the moon.” Then, hand-held candles were lit across the massive crowd as a symbol of Jesus’ light shining in darkness and the people worshipped late into the night.

It was like the Day of Pentecost!! We have been hosted in this concert ministry to families by numerous denominations who are standing TOGETHER to see God touch the nation of Vietnam. Assemblies of God, Baptists, Independent Charismatic, Christian & Missionary Alliance, Foursquare Gospel, Bible Churches and Campus Crusade For Christ have all worked together with us in bringing this message to the people.

One Christian leader, watching the people eagerly running forward to meet Jesus said to Brenda, “Look, it’s the Harvest!” We were immediately reminded of Matthew 9:37-38 where Jesus spoke of this same Harvest. These are days of miraculous revival and open doors. We were given a verse of Scripture by the same leader, from Revelation 3:8, which says, “I know your deeds, see I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. . .you have kept my Word and not denied My name.” We are reminded this Christmas of what so many Christians in Vietnam have been willing to give and to sacrifice through decades of persecution as they continued to stand in faith for the cause of Christ. Please continue to pray for Vietnam and the Great Revival that has begun here.


Dear friends and supporters, Last time I sent you some pictures of the small group who held a Christmas outreach program successfully, without the number of new converts.  Now I got it: