In a city, food was prepared for at least 50-60 people. I told them to let those young people who have been working at various companies to go and pick the people up and bring them to our house church in order that I will be able to share with them. Thank you God, there were more than 50 people who came, and I shared with them about 2 hours, and two people accepted Jesus Christ. I have been longing for to see those young people, and I thank God I met them. They were all laughing and excited and rejoicing throughout 2 hours without getting tired.

 

The day of our house church dedication I had prepared myself to attend and even planned to share with those young people. But unfortunately the plan was changed. The national church Khmu pastor that they invited brought his church members with him for the dedication. We thought that he would come by himself, with his wife and some Khmu Christians. After our leaders knew other people were coming with him, they immediately said to me that I must not come to the dedication of the house church at all. Otherwise it would cause a lot of trouble. If some of them see me they will be informed about the key leaders and then the pastor who brought many people to the party will get in trouble and our Khmu leaders as well, and even I myself may be jeopardized too. Isn’t that a sad thing instead to afraid the government official but to our brothers in Christ?

 

There were more than 80 Khmu who came to attend the dedication service. However, they took me and put me at my brother’s house, and kept me there from 5 PM until 9.30 PM. But we contacted each other to agree when the program would be ended. I told them "Please end it as soon as possible and then come get me, but please keep those Khmu young people and do not let them go home yet. Because I want to meet them and share with them."

 

Thank God, at 9.30 PM they got me from my brother’s house which is about a 2 minute drive. When I arrived all of the Khmu young people were waiting for me. Only few of them had to leave because their companies did not allow them to stay overnight. I started preaching to them at 9.30 PM and preached until midnight. There was laughing and excitement  and rejoicing. God really gave me strength and empowered me to speak and share. I challenged them from the Biblical point of view about the dangerous world and its devastation and uncertainty, about the tsunami and social problems, economically, politically and educationally. I asked them what had they done in the last year for themselves, for God, for family, and for other people.

 

I encouraged them to have a burden for their friends at the companies who did not know God yet, and to use their time to witness to their friends about Jesus Christ and encourage them to come to the church. I also encouraged them to give witness to their parents in the villages when they go home to visit their parents and to be an example to them in their life by obeying God and being good girls and boys in order to show their parents that they are different from before, and different from other people. I said, "Particularly do not let your parents force you to do anything related to spirit things and do not get involved with them, either. But answer them politely and respectfully, because they do not understand what you believe. Yes, and sometimes you can’t relate to them clearly what you believe, either."

 

I told them to listen to the Khmu programs (and many of them have been listening) and asked them to take some of the cassette messages back to their villages and let their parents listen. Some of them answered that they have been doing this. Most of them did not have radios so I told them I will give each company a tape player and some of them radio short wave radios to listen our program.

 

I also spoke to them strongly about keeping themselves away form any sexual behavior, because as Christians we must be holy. I said, "If you find any boys or boyfriends or any girlfriends please pray first and then inform the church leaders and ask them for counseling, and they will help you know what to do." Many of them were very interested in this issue because they are facing tremendous challenges in their daily life. They are away from their parents, villages, and provinces to come to the big city, doing hard work with little pay, about $30 US a month. They feel very lonely and need friends who can understand them, and sometimes they find bad friends who lead them in the wrong way.

 

One Khmu man sked me to help his granddaughter who had been abducted by a Thai man 5 years ago. Right now she was staying in Bangkok with the man who took her. She has become a slave to him, and he bites her daily but will not let her go back to Laos. She has phoned to her parents to help her, but they did not know what to do. They gave me her phone number, address, name and picture and asked me to rescue her. She has been in Thailand for 5 years, and right now she is already 26 years old.

 

When I was at the L house church, the Christians that I preached to were a combination of 3 different groups of people: Khmu, Hmong and Lao.