Project: Vietnamese Prison Ministry
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Mission: Spread the gospel and disciple 100 Vietnamese inmates in Taiwan
Results: 300 detainees professed their faith in Jesus, 6 detainees baptized, 35 care packages during Vietnamese new year for prisoners, discipleship of 100 prisoners |
Description: Vietnamese Diaspora Outreach Ministry in Taiwan started in 2009 to serve over 100 Vietnamese inmates through gospel sharing, discipleship, and theological leadership training. Pastor Thu and his wife Hanh have been missionaries for over 15 years. They served to help needy Vietnamese families in Cambodia for 10 years. They have been called during recent years to minister to the large Vietnamese laborers, prisoners, and brides population in Taiwan.
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Field Updates 2013
One of our major activities in the last three months since we came back to Taiwan is to host several Short Term Mission Teams from Canada and US
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One of the potential leaders has already finished his jail term and returned to Vietnam. We are in the process of following up on him as the next part of the so called: Vietnam Returnee Strategy
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The number of inmates at Taipei prison has hit the mark of 70. They are scattered over 10 areas, and thus it is impossible for us to meet with all of them within the two hour time slot allotted for evangelistic visitation. Through the discipleship program, the life of most inmates has been changed obviously. They live peacefully regardless the adverse circumstance and also testify their faith to new comers. Sometime I don’t have a chance to meet with new comers for a while after they arrived in the prison, but these people already read through the Bible and ready for the test of baptism.
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We joined with the Taiwan Foreign Inmate Caring Association as the representative for Vietnamese language group. Although the increased workload leaves little time for rest, we are very joyful to see more people converted weekly. There have been almost three hundred people who have professed their faith in Jesus Christ in various detention centers in the last three months and six people were baptized at the San Xia detention center where we have more focus for the weekly discipleship program.
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