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A Vietnam Presence: Mennonites in Vietnam During the American War
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About A Vietnam Presence: Mennonites In Vietnam During
Make sure to check out Masthof's website for more great books like this one! Following the French Indochina War, the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in 1954 began a program of relief assistance to displaced persons in South Vietnam, and soon became involved in relief and medical programs with the Christian and Missionary Alliance and with the Evangelical Church of Vietnam. A few years later the Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities assigned missionaries to Saigon where they began ministries to students and developed a community service center. This led to the formation and development of the Vietnam Mennonite Church. The growth of American political and military involvement in the 1960s called for a unique response from Mennonite personnel committed to Christ's vision of service and peace. The heart of the story is the challenge that North American Mennonites faced in proclaiming Jesus Christ's gospel of peace in Vietnam during the era the United States of America engaged in a military conflict that killed three million Vietnamese. John A. Lapp writes in the Foreword: "Readers will be inspired by this contemporary mission story. They will discover the profound commitments of missionaries, how they engaged Vietnamese people, and communicated the realities of living in a war zone to their North American friends and sponsors.... Indeed there are few mission stories that provide such graphic detail on living through a war that ended in the transition to the new revolutionary government."
