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INTERCOMM

Presents:

 

Vietnamese Language Recording Project

4 InterComm Films Chosen by Vietnamese Nationals
To Be Recorded In-Country to Help Them Reach
Vietnamese for Jesus Christ


Target Date: February/March 2008

Featuring Media Produced by Ken Anderson Films
INTERCOMM
PO Box 618
Winona Lake, IN 46590 USA
Phone (574) 267-5774
Fax (574) 267-5876

email - lanejill@intercommedia.org
website - www.intercommedia.org

 

History
Vietnam’s identity has been shaped by long-running conflicts, both internally and with foreign forces. China ruled for 1,000 years. In the 1400's Vietnam conquered the Champa Kingdom in what is now central Vietnam and moved further southward. During most of this time powerful Vietnam emperors reigned, fighting civil wars between the north and the south. In 1858 the French began their conquest of Vietnam starting in the south. They annexed all of Vietnam in 1885, but allowed Vietnam’s emperors to continue to reign. France’s post-World War II unwillingness to leave Vietnam led to failed talks and an 8-year guerilla war between the communist-led Viet Minh on one side and the French and their anti-communist Nationalist allies on the other. In 1954 France and other parties signed a Cessation of Hostilities Agreement and French colonial rule came to an end. It also created the partition of Vietnam into North and South, calling for elections to bring the two factions together as one nation, but the South refused to accept this provision. In 1955 South Vietnam declared itself the Republic of Vietnam. In December 1961, the US, at the request of South Vietnam, sent military advisers to help the government deal with the Viet Cong campaign. The American military role peaked in 1969 as peace talks were begun in Paris. In 1973 the country was divided into a patchwork of zones controlled by the South Vietnamese and Viet Cong. The US withdrew its military forces. In early 1975 the North Vietnamese regular miliary forces began a major offensive in the south, inflicting great damage. The communists took Saigon on April 30, 1975 and announced their intention to unify the country. They formed the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in July 1976.
After reunification, the government confiscated privately owned property and forced citizens into collectivized agricultural practices. Hundreds of thousands of former South Vietnamese government, military, and church leaders, as well as intellectuals previously opposed to the communist cause, were sent to re-education camps to study socialist doctrine.

in 1986, the Communist Party implemented free-market reforms. Private ownership of farms and companies and foreign investment was encouraged. The economy has achieved rapid growth and is now one of the fastest growing economies in the world.

People and Religion
The population is over 85 million with 54% Buddhist, 22% non-religious and about 8% Christian. Because Protestantism is closely associated with the USA, Protestants have been continually persecuted by the Communist government, much more so than Catholics. Although the Vietnamese Constitution guarantees religious freedom, it is meaningless. Believers are harassed, beaten, and imprisoned for illegally preaching or organizing evangelistic activities. Government efforts have intensified as churches respond to persecution with growth and outreach. Registration of churches implies compromise; failure to register churches is illegal, forcing most believers underground.

Most of the population was born after the war and are more interested in capital gain and the outside world than Communist propaganda. They are, however, proving responsive to the Gospel. The desperate need for economic development is giving opportunities to Christian tentmakers in business and English instruction.

In 1974, there were 280 missionaries in Vietnam. By 1975, they were all gone. They are poised now to re-enter the country, as believers prayers pry open this closed nation. Instead of being weakened by persecution, the faith of Vietnamese Christians is growing, and the Body of Christ is becoming stronger. A large-scale and sustained turning to Christ is taking place in both the registered and unregistered (underground) church, especially among the mountain tribes of Central and Southern Vietnam.

InterComm Strategy

In April 2007, Lane and Jill Anderson met with a group in Vietnam to discuss the possibility of a Vietnamese Language Recording Project. Due to security issues, InterComm will not publish names, pictures of the participants, or the city where the meetings took place, but a Committee was formed to begin translation work on 4 InterComm films - the classics, HUDSON TAYLOR and PILGRIM’S PROGRESS, a teenage film, STEP OVER THE EDGE, and a children’s film, SPACE SHUTTLE JOURNEY. Very little Christian media material is available in Vietnamese. The Vietnamese population is young and media-oriented. There will also be a need for video players and projectors as little is now available among indigenous leaders and church groups. A complete budget will be needed to meet these needs.

The Vietnamese Diaspora
A secondary ministry will be with the Vietnamese outside the country, who fled when Communism took over in 1975. 2 million Vietnamese have settled around the globe, where they are more accessible to ministry. These groups can also benefit from videos in their heart language of Vietnamese.

Commit to Pray
Funding, as outlined on the next pages, is needed, but please also pray for this Project. It will be somewhat of a covert operation. The Committee in-country at this point believes that it will be best not to register this Project with the government. They have seen much loosening of restrictions and are praying that conditions will be such by 2008 that the Project can be more open. But currently, they are talking about our coming as tourists and keeping a very low profile. Many details are yet to be considered, but translation work is moving ahead and early February is the target time frame. Please do what you can to encourage the Vietnamese Christians with the completion of this Project. We, too, would appreciate your prayers for safety for the InterComm Team as well.

 

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