What can you do in 10 minutes? Scroll through your messages or social media? Load the dishwasher? Listen to 2-3 songs? Take a quick power nap? The reality is 10 minutes is not much time. Sadly, in our city of 10 million people, every 10 minutes of … [Read more...]

Syncretism is the practice of blending various aspects of different religions or spiritual beliefs together.  Traditionally the Vietnamese view Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism as being “three religions from one source” which lends itself to … [Read more...]

Throughout the city you can find countless idol and altar shops. Ceramic idols cast in molds, and larger stone idols chiseled from stone.  Idols are placed on home altars, in virtually every business, on the carts of street vendors and on larger … [Read more...]

The city is awash in spirituality and religion with temples, prayer rooms, pagodas, shrines, and roadside spiritual sites. Through tradition and rituals, the people are actively seeking for help, pragmatically from wherever they think they might find … [Read more...]

Incense sticks are sold in bundles for pennies. These sticks of incense are then burned at home altars and temples often in the worship of Buddha and with prayers for blessings, health, success in business or fertility.  Pray for the Gospel to be … [Read more...]

Animism is not as much a religion as it is a system of beliefs that there are spirits all around us, spirits in rocks and trees, houses, and streets. The people of our city believe these spirits have the capacity to bless them as well as a tendency … [Read more...]

The most common form of spirituality in Vietnam is ancestor worship as daily prayers and sacrifices are offered to the spirits of multiple generations of family members who have passed on.  Pray for the people of our city to hear and … [Read more...]

“For My name will be great among the nations, from the rising of the sun to its setting. Incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name in every place because My name will be great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Hosts. Malachi … [Read more...]

“Show me how You work, God; School me in Your ways. Take me by the hand; Lead me down the path of truth. You are my Savior, aren’t You?” Psalm 25:4-5 Narrow alleys fill the gaps between major roads---sometimes no more than a few feet wide and … [Read more...]

Waiting. For Vietnamese to be saved they must first hear the Good News of the Gospel. For Vietnamese to hear the Good News of the Gospel, they must encounter Believers. Today, Believers are opening several small businesses. Ask the Holy Spirit … [Read more...]