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After 30 years as an atheist and communist, Huan met Jesus!

“I’m one of the worst God has called from atheism and communism. I had no respect for human rights. I used to visit prisons where good Christians were sent because of their faith. I could talk for hours about the situation of human rights in Vietnam. I was a part of the Communist Party for 30 years, as the chairman of a Union in a State Company. I was also a solider in the army; in Quanzi I fought against the Americans. I am not proud of this, but it is the truth. By the grace of God, I can say that I have never killed anyone.
Communism is the same as atheism. It is like a brick wall. I didn’t believe in the testimonies of the Christians, not at all. I was raised in atheism: Human beings were a product of evolution and came from the monkeys. War was necessary to bring us forward. But God’s grace crushed this brick wall. Love is completely different….” Says the Ex-Communist Huan.

He continues: “The fact that I became a Christian is really a miracle to me. There were no Christians in my family, but a prisoner in a prison camp in Hong Kong shared the gospel with me. I was born again in 1998 and baptized in the Holy Spirit in 1999, one year later. I also went through training in my local church. I understood that I needed to learn more to be able to live fully for Him. The first person I witnessed to was may wife. And she received Christ, so did my daughter as well. My oldest son has not yet received Christ. He has gifts in music and is a teacher and renowned musician in the province where he lives. My prayer is that he will serve the Lord with his gifts. After I got saved, I shared my testimony and nine people outside my family have received the Lord. One of them is a high-rank communist. He now lives like Nikodemus, he believes in his heart, but has not yet come forward to be baptized.”

“People couldn’t imagine me becoming a Christian. I was so involved with the Party in all kinds of activity. Reunion of veterans, programs for retired members and so on. Some people wanted to have me as the leader for the worker’s union. But now I only have one union, Gods family. I love worship, I read the Bible every day. My longing is to see people saved. More than anything else I long for my own oldest son to accept Christ. I spend my time sharing the gospel with my former colleagues in the Party. Oftentimes these communists curse and chase away Christians who attempt to share the gospel with them, but thanks to God, I have not yet experienced that! My passion is to do this inside the Communist Party, in the midst of all the difficult things. The Spirit has spoken to me that I must love all people. It is hard, but I have to do my best. One day my neighbor was burning some rubber. I talked to him, but he wouldn’t listen when I told him that what he was doing was illegal, and that he was polluting the whole neighborhood. He came to beat me, and he threatened me. I felt hurt inside, and I said: Lord, show me that you are with me, and that I am a part of your army. Three days later this neighbor fell from a construction and broke several ribs. I prayed for him, and he was healed. God’s grace is enough for meg!”

“To start with”, shares Huan, “I hid my Bible when I was on my way to church. After some time, Jesus spoke to me in a dream and said ‘Nothing in the entire world is worth your soul’. I now carry my Bible and have the guitar over my shoulder on my motorbike all the time. After I got saved, I can talk about Jesus all day every day. My life is so completely different from before. I know that God has a concrete plan for me. I want to serve him full time – why shouldn’t I? I believe God has more to teach me, because I used to be a VERY proud person. It’s not easy to change old habits, but God is able. We are like the clay in the hands of the potter”, says Huan.

And he continues: “I often lay awake at night crying when I think about how God could love me like he does. God just shows me his love in a way that I can’t explain. I just want to share this, and still, I feel like a little baby that just needs to receive and receive. I’d like a fishing rod so I could go fishing myself, not just receive a ready meal of fish. I’m often so impatient, but Jesus says ‘I am able! I only got to serve 3 of my 33 years on earth!’ I love the Lord so much! I am so glad that I got baptized in the Holy Ghost, and that I was able to receive the deep love of the Father.”

Huan, who works as a photographer, tells me that a man one time said to him: ‘You have been brainwashed by younger people.’ “This man’s son died from AIDS two years after I was saved”, says Huan. I wasn’t home, but I went to show my compassion after the funeral. They wanted to show me the place where they sacrificed incense like the Buddhists do, but I told them that I didn’t want to see any altar - only God is to be worshipped. I shared the gospel with him, and it ended with him embracing me and asking if I had any documents about Jesus.”

Asked about his relationship to the Communist Party today, Huan answers: “If someone in the Communist Party doesn’t attend the activities that are arranged for a period of three months, they can be expelled from the party. However, I destroyed both my membership card and the graduation papers from my philosophy- and Marxism study and burnt it all immediately. If I have to suffer because of my faith in Jesus, that will be an honor for me. My life has really changed”.

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