LAOS: Couple Rejected by Parents and Daughter

Yeaun and Vanhdee with their youngest daughter.

A Laotian couple has been rejected by their family after placing their faith in Christ. Yeaun and his wife, Vanhdee, became followers of Jesus Christ when their three-year-old daughter was healed after a Christian coworker recommended taking her to a church for prayer. They were afraid to follow his advice, but as they listened to an audio Bible the man had given them, they became convinced they should follow Christ. After they placed their trust in Christ, they attended a nearby church and listened to the Bible every day. Yeaun’s parents, uncle and oldest daughter became angry with them. The daughter told them she could not respect them as parents if they follow a foreign religion. Yeaun’s uncle kicked them off the family property, and his mother took back land she had given them. “If you want to keep your faith, then don’t call me mother,” she said. The couple continue to attend church and raise their other daughters to know Jesus.

• Pray for strength and perseverance for Yeaun and Vanhdee as they face rejection and loss because of their faith in Christ. Ask God to comfort them and remind them that He is their true provider and Father.

• Pray for reconciliation within their family — that their relatives’ hearts would be softened and that they would come to see the love and truth of Christ through Yeaun and Vanhdee’s faithful witness.

• Pray for provision and stability, as the couple have lost their home and land. Ask that God would meet all their needs and bless them with a safe place to live and work.

• Pray for their children, especially their oldest daughter, that she would experience God’s love personally and be drawn to follow Jesus.

• Pray for the church in Laos, that believers like Yeaun and Vanhdee would continue to stand strong and encourage one another amid persecution.