Ken Geisendorfer

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Hanoi, Vietnam Report

by Ken Geisendorfer   SOC Director

In March 2010, we ran two schools in Vietnam, one in Saigon and the other in Hanoi. In Saigon, we graduated sixty-five students and in Hanoi, seventy students. In less than two years, four hundred and thirty pastors and leaders have graduated from The School of Christ. In Vietnam, there are eighty-six million people within fifty-four tribes that speak seventy languages or dialects with Vietnamese being the mother language. The School of Christ has trained pastors in twenty-four tribes and we are going into the other thirty-four tribes with the Gospel.

I was talking to my translator and I asked about all the tribes in Vietnam and she said twenty of the fifty-four tribes have NEVER heard the name of Jesus. As I write this report we have School of Christ students/missionaries going into those tribes preaching Christ. The greatest need in the church in Vietnam is God called pastors that are trained and filled with the Holy Ghost. Many pastors that come to the school have had very little teaching in the Word of God.

In the Saigon school, one of the students is the chief of a tribe that he also the pastors. He told me that almost all three hundred people in his tribe are filled with the Holy Spirit. On our next trip we are going to this tribe, Lord willing, to preach in that Church.

In the school in Hanoi, there was a student that is the wife of a high-ranking official in the Vietnam government. Her husband works under the Prime Minister and is the head of the financial department. She asked if I would come to her house and talk with her husband about Christ. She said she has been a Christian for over twenty years and that her husband has allowed her to do so because he knows Christians are the hardest working, most honest, and most giving people on earth. The next Sunday afternoon I went to their home. We sat in the front room and her husband told me about his trip to the USA. For twenty minutes he talked and I listened. Then it was time for me to share the Gospel. I said, "The reason I'm here is to talk to you about your soul. It's appointed unto man once to die, then comes the judgment."

I preached from Genesis to Revelation and, while I was talking, his wife and maid were running around closing all the doors and windows because they live in the government administration housing. It was like in the book of Acts when King Agrippa told Paul, "almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian." He told me he had worked twenty-eight years in the communist government and in two years he will retire. If he becomes a Christian, he will lose it all. I asked his wife the next day how he was doing and she said, "Yesterday was the first time he ever let someone talk to him about Christ."

As the School of Christ moves across Southeast Asia, God is moving by His Spirit and everybody is hearing the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Please, continue to pray for the Church in Southeast Asia and the School of Christ.