Vietnam – Hmong Outreach

God’s grace opened doors to an unprecedented mission opportunity in communist Vietnam.

In 2011, leadership from the Hmong Fellowship Church (HFC) in Vietnam invited WELS pastor Bounkeo Lor to train their church leaders in the truth of the gospel. Since then, Lor and other WELS representatives have made trips to Hanoi, Vietnam, to train approximately 60 church leaders at a time. The HFC was a church body of 55,000 members in 2011. In the years WELS has provided training, the HFC has grown from 55,000 to over 145,000 members and formed many new churches.

The message of free grace received from Jesus Christ replaced the HFC’s old law-based preaching and brought peace to the Hmong Fellowship Church—church leadership stabilized as a result. In 2018, the communist government in Vietnam noticed this positive change and invited WELS to build a theological education center in the capital city of Hanoi. The new building was dedicated on July 15, 2023. WELS is currently the only protestant church with official government permission to work with the Hmong in Vietnam. The Lord is opening a door to reach the more than two million Hmong people who live in Vietnam and the surrounding countries.

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Support Grace-Hmong Outreach in Vietnam. Gifts will support the operation of the theological education center in Hanoi and other outreach efforts to the Hmong in Vietnam and the surrounding areas.

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Praying for Vietnam

Holy Spirit, grant by the power of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that we help strengthen the understanding of God’s grace in our brothers and sisters in the Hmong Fellowship Church. Help us also to reach many new people in Vietnam—Hmong, other minorities, and the Vietnamese—with the power of the gospel. Amen.