Posted on 03/06/2023 5:54:10 PM PST by marshmallow
Thousands of people attend the Spring Love Festival held by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association at the Phu Tho Sports Facility in Ho Chi Minh City on Mar. 4. (Photo: oneway.vn)
An estimated 14,000 Christians in southern Vietnam attended a historic religious event organized by an American evangelist association in Ho Chi Minh City.
People including government officials from the city and neighboring provinces attended the Spring Love Festival held by the US-based Billy Graham Evangelistic Association at the Phu Tho Sports Facility on Mar. 4-5.
Reverend Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the association told the crowds that “God makes and creates you and loves you and Vietnam. Jesus is in the city tonight.”
Each day some 7,000 people attended public Bible talks and Gospel singing, local media said.
Graham said he was in the Southeast Asian country at the invitation of local churches.
More than 900 pastors and church leaders from 60 denominations worked together for the event. This was the first time "so many denominational leaders had been under one roof," the association claimed on its website.
Before the event, Graham reportedly met with Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai and other officials to discuss the diversity of religions and support for religious freedom in the country.
Graham held his first public event in Hanoi in 2017 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.
In Hi Chi Minh City he urged the local people to pray to God to lead and direct their government authorities, who granted permission to his association to work in the country.
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God bless Franklin Graham!
AMEN!!! AMEN!!!
God has children but not grandchildren. But both He and the Grahams, Billy and Ruth, were effective and winsome in presenting the Gospel in the Graham home.
And meanwhile in merry-ole England, they banned him and called him a racist.
Ain’t that something.
Ho Chi Minh City is the former Saigon. Still the economic capaital of the country.
From video and photos I have seen, it is essentailly the same as a modern American city if not for the decay of our American cities.
Vietnam pretty much went Capitalist in 1986, and abandoned Marxism.
Wonderful contrast to the news of the satanfest in Brazil. But few on FR even care.
Pingo
This is a beautiful story.
Thank you.
Super, Daniel! Thank you!
How long will it be before someone opinions that since certain theological points were not addressed, this ‘work’ is not of GOD?
My wife was saved at a Billy Graham Crusade in Baltimore.
In her testimony she says “There was nothing I could do but walk down the steps- God had clearly given me the gift of faith.”
She has been faithfully walking with Jesus Christ ever since that day.
We both love what God did through Billy Graham and are regular supporters of Samaritans Purse and the work of Franklin Graham.
I hope he comes to the Philippines. 😆🤗😊 He is better known than Amir.
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