Uncle Colonel K is a retired communist who is a very influential man in his village. The way he found God is amazing and marvelous. He heard rumors about Jesus. These rumors made it difficult for him for find clear facts.  Nevertheless, God had His divine plan for Uncle Colonel K to find Jesus when he sought Him earnestly. One day Uncle Colonel K visited his Hmong friend who was also a former communist provincial governor. This Hmong man was not a Christian but he had two cassette messages in his pocket.  After they had finished talking the Hmong man picked up a cassette message and gave it to Uncle Colonel K and said, “This cassette message is very good but I don’t understand it well because it is in the Khmu language; but the way the man is speaking seems to be good. Please take it and listen.” Uncle K said that he gladly took it but he did not know where the Hmong man got this cassette message. 

 

After arriving at his village he took the cassette message and put it in his Chinese radio tape player and listened to it carefully.  Then he said, “This man must be our boss and leader to lead us, because what he talked about here is really good, and he knows our problems very well.”

 

Uncle K did not stop with accepting Jesus for his own life but he also led all of his family to Jesus Christ, and then led a total of 32 people to Jesus Christ in his village. The District governor, the police and the village head man pressured Uncle K 16 times to renounce his faith. They pressured him by saying “It is impossible to allow a man like you, who had been serving the communist government for 35 years to betray the government by believing the foreigner religion”.

 

Uncle K answered, “This is my personal conviction. It has nothing to do with politics. I cannot find any thing wrong in the Bible or in the cassette messages that I have listened to. I have been involved with the Lao revolutionary work for 35 years. Now I am a 67 year old man.” The authorities have threatened to cut off Uncle K’s retirement fund if he does not cease from being a Christian.  But up to now they have not done it yet. He told them, “I know what I am doing and believing. I know it is good and not bad nor a danger to the country.”

 

The District governor took him and his Hmong friend to the district office and forced him to sign a paper of denouncing his faith.  They said, “We don’t want to have any Christians in our district.” Uncle K’s Hmong friend who gave him the cassette messages, defended him and disputed with the officials very strongly, even though he was not a Christian himself. His Hmong friend said, “Stop harassing him and forcing him to renounce his faith in the Christian religion. Do you not know that there are many people believing this religion in Laos? You are not going to force all of them to renounce their faith. This religion is legal in Laos.” The harassment of Uncle K continues although not as much as at the beginning. Uncle K has worn out 4 radio and tape players as he and his people listen to it every day - both the cassette messages and on the radio programs on the air.