A History of the Revival of 1992-1995

Vietnam and Cambodia

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Tom Ford of Dallas, Texas, reported that on October 10, 1994, he had just returned from a two week trip to Vietnam and Cambodia. He wrote:

Ten of us from our church in Dallas went there to bring in medical supplies and bibles and to build up the churches there. Our team met with several leaders of house churches in Vietnam. Some of the leaders oversee hundreds of individual house churches and several thousand people. Most of them had spent time in jail for preaching the gospel. Any unapproved meeting of more than 15 is illegal and the churches have to meet secretly. Their faith and commitment to the Lord is amazing. We met with them to encourage them and to pray for them to receive the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that had been seen in the US and around the world. We divided into groups of 2 or 3 to go to various meeting places around the city. We were driven on the back of motorcycles to a lot of them. At every place where we prayed the Holy Spirit touched them and many fell out, laughed, cried, shouted, or danced under the influence of the anointing. It was really amazing. Most of the people we talked to had not seen or heard about the outpouring that is happening now. One time, I went with one of the girls on our team to meet with a group of about 20 people. I told about the what had been happening in Toronto, about our pastors going there to see it, and bringing it back to our church in Dallas. The two of us started praying for them and saw the same thing happen there. Wow! I hadn't been stretched that far before. It was great.

In Cambodia, we were hosted by Sophal Ung, the pastor of a church sponsored by Global Network. The Lord is doing great things through his ministry there. The government has given them freedom to do whatever they want. They are feeding the poor, planting churches all over the country, and helping train people with marketable skills. It's a very poor country with little industry. They've seen lots of miracles too, blind eyes opened, deaf healed, demons cast out, and the dead raised. There was a man that died of a heart attack and was dead 9 hours. They took up boards from the floor of his house to have a coffin made. The buddhist priest was going to come pick up the body the next day. His wife had been saved about 2 weeks and wouldn't give up. She and several Christians prayed for hours until midnight. The others gave up and went home, but she kept on. At 4:30 am the husband sat up said give me something to eat. He went out the next day and the people of the village thought he was a ghost. People came from miles around to see the man that was raised up. The man and his wife now have a church in their house. I have the testimony on videotape also.

At the Catch The Fire Conference in Toronto in October of 1994, there were some people from Cambodia, Monee Mon and Chen Mau, co-workers with Sophal and Deborah Ung, who told about a resurrection from the dead and a Buddhist temple that had been struck by a fireball from heaven, which caused it to move fifty meters. The resurrection had occurred in January of 1994. Someone's husband had been sick for two or three years, and died in January. The neighbors came, and at 8:00 pm the Buddhist monk came and pronounced him dead. He left at midnight. Then, at 3 am, after the wife had been praying, he was alive. He, himself, was surprised, and began checking his body. He asked for rice soup. At 6 am he walked around throughout the village and the people thought that he was a ghost, because they saw him lying dead the previous evening. He would knock on peoples' doors, and when they saw him, they were too frightened to let him come in. As a result of this, thousands of people came to the Lord, and eight churches were planted.

They said that on Sunday morning, August 31, Sophal was sharing about what was happening in Toronto. People fell to the floor before he ever had a chance to finish. In the evening, the same thing happened again. Then it began to rain, and there was a Buddhist temple on the mountain. The people were preparing to bring all of the idols to the Buddhist temple. Suddenly, people saw a ball of fire coming from the side, which caused the temple to move fifty meters, and the temple was destroyed. Five Buddhist monks testified about this. One monk said that he was clinging to his bed for the entire fifty meters, but he was not hurt. He felt happy, and he was rejoicing. The whole building was destroyed, but nobody was hurt. God destroyed the idols, but the people were left unharmed. This incident reportedly caused the people to take the message of the Christian Gospel very seriously.

In October of 1994, James Ryle told Richard and Kathryn Riss that Monee Mon and Chen Mau had videotaped an interview with Sophal and Deborah, and in the interview, there was a description of the experiences of the man who was raised from the dead. He said that he was taken to a river, and people were crossing the river. Each person crossed in a coffin. He was asked, "where is your coffin?" He said he didn't have a coffin. He was told that if he didn't have a coffin, he couldn't cross. He began retracing his steps, and he came to a crossroads. He was given a choice of either light or darkness. He chose the light. The next thing he knew, he was in bed, checking himself to see if he was really alive. His wife was there praying, and had been praying for some time.


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