North Texas church forges ties with Vietnam

Published: July 26, 2007, 1:24 pm

Under pastor Bob Roberts Jr., NorthWay Church in Keller - a Southern Baptist congregation - has been sending groups to the northern part of Vietnam for more than a decade, to help in clinics and orphanages, and to install water filtration systems. The groups can't hand out religious literature, or initiate conversations about their faith. But they go anyway. Below is a story of mine on the church and Roberts. It was on page 13B of today's Dallas Morning news. Church evangelizing with service, not sermons Keller congregation working to do its part in Vietnam 12:00 AM CDT on Thursday, July 26, 2007 By SAM HODGES / The Dallas Morning News samhodges@dallasnews.com An evangelical church in North Texas would seem an odd destination for a government delegation visiting the United States from communist Vietnam, where evangelism by outsiders is forbidden. But Nguyen Van Kien, director-general of the People's Aid Coordinating Committee of Vietnam, and others in his party

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