Our Meeting with the Missonary

God has been good to us this trip. He has provided safety, health and fun. Yesterday God also provided a way for us to make a difference in a Vietnamese families' life that had just lost their son. Isn't God Amazing!

We have been in contact with a Vietnamese Missionary, Koah (Kwah), that is affiliated with the Free Methodist Denomination. We were able to set up a day to go and talk with him. We picked him up at the subway and walked to a local coffee shop and talked with him. Koah was sent by the Free Methodist's to start to help the Vietnamese people in Taiwan and start evangelizing to them. Koah talked about how his main goal is to train people here and then send them back to Vietnam so that they can start ministering there. He cannot do that in Vietnam because he is not a citizen and the Communist party there watches him very closely whenever he visits. He has successfully planted a church here in Taiwan and many secret home groups in Vietnam. It is amazing to see how God has used him and his family here.

Before coming on this trip, we received an anonymous donation with one request by the giver: use this money to help a family in need. We were lost on how to use this money effectively. There seemed to be no poor families in the parts of Taiwan that Eric was taking us. We decided to ask Koah what he thinks we should do with the money and he had the perfect idea. In the Vietnamese church there is a family who's son had just died. He had raised money to come to Taiwan to work and had just recently died in a terrible accident. The family is very poor and cannot afford to buy a plane ticket for the father to come over from Vietnam to help bring back the son's body. In an effort to help, Koah has started to raise money among the believers to help with the financial burden that has been put on this family. When we heard that story, we knew that that is where the money needed to go. We were able to donate $50 (US) to this family in prayer that God will use this to really help that family.

Eric, Koah, Jack and Sophie

We ask, if you can, please join with us in prayer for this family. They really need it. Pray that God will provide the rest of the funds needed and for comfort as they have lost a loved one.

In Proverbs 19:17 it says, "Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed." Thank you to our anonymous donner, God knows who you are and I believe that he will bless you through this donation.