Hmong Churches are churches of the

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. Hmong Churches tend to be Renewal churches.

History

The first missionaries to Laos were from the

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. At that time, Laos was a French protectorate within French Indochina, governed by King Souligna Vongsa. In 1947, Rev. Ted Andrianoff and his wife sailed from New York to

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for the

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. The majority of the people who converted to Christianity at that time were the Khmu and the Hmong people who spoke Green Hmong. They accepted their first convert in 1950. By March 1951, 2,300 Laotian Hmong had converted to Christianity; four years later the number was 5,000. When Laos fell during the Vietnam War, thousands of Christian Hmong were evacuated and resettled in the United States.

List of Hmong Church Organizations

* Alliance Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance https://www.hmongdistrict.org/ * Hmong Baptist National Association https://www.hbna.org/ * United Christians Liberty Evangelical * Oroville Hmong Alliance Church * Hmong Faith Alliance Church of

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* Emmanuel Alliance Church of Galesville, WI * Coon Rapids Hmong Alliance Church Coon Rapids, Minnesota

References

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History

List of Hmong Church Organizations

See also

References