[SPONSOR] Vietnam definitely is in the top 20 most populated countries in the world.
We didn’t know much about this country, except we know this is a Communist world.
And the only contact we have when we started planning is Nick’s publisher in Vietnam, so this is what we have.
[NICK ARRIVING WITH CAMERAS, CARS MANY PEOPLE ON STREETS, HORNS HONKING]
[NICK] Wow! Everything is beyond our expectations. Extreme!
[CARS, MANY PEOPLE ON STREETS, HORNS HONKING]
[SPONSOR] Everything is beyond our expectations.
Extreme chaos, extreme overheated crowd, extreme hospitality at the same time. Everything just
goes to the extreme in Vietnam.
[NICK] I was going up a ramp and they lifted my back
wheels off the ground up the ramp. They were pushing me up, so I nearly flipped forward. That was crazy!
[BIG POSTER OF NICK ON STREET]
[MUSIC AND PICTURES OF PEOPLE ON STREET]
We knew that we had a privileged calling,
and for such a time as this, we were just asking God for the right balance of inspiration and
faith-based sort of content throughout every speech.
[SPONSOR] We have all the love and support and feel the passions in trying to
sum up the entirety in Vietnam. He’s a very good guy. He tries to please everyone. But sometimes,
because he tries to please everyone, he turns out that nobody’s happy. But I really love
this brother. Without him, the whole entire Vietnam tour just won’t happen. And I can’t
remember or recall how many days, sleepless nights and tons of messages, email that they
sent me, but he is always so positive, and there are times we thought about calling off
the entire Vietnam event because things are not steering in the right direction. I would
say, even his experience, but he really has the persistence to finish great for this mission.
I have no doubt about him. He is the best.
[MUSIC AND MOTION OF PEOPLE RIDING BICYCLES ON THE STREETS]
[NICK] We just found out in Vietnam, and I was talking with Ignatus, either we come
without really reaching anyone and we keep quiet, or we come loud, and we made the right
decision in my opinion, coming loud. They even have scripts for what they want me to say,
how much of my life they want me to share. They wanted us to sign a disclosure that I
would not talk about faith, and we refused to sign it.
[SPONSOR] One difficulty is they start asking for the scripts of Nick. They only want Nick to focus
on the motivational part, and also to always to tie up with the brokenness of the disability
people published in Vietnam. Well, it’s good but not complete, in a way.
Nick’s message covers the brokenness in the heart, not brokenness on the outside.
You see, even when you’re on the edge of thinking you’re going to give up,
I want you to know something. If you’re alive, you have the gift--the gift of growing,
learning from our difficulties. Battle after battle, you need to understand, you will get through this!
That’s the power of hope. That’s the power of love.
[CLAPPING] [NIGHT IN VIETNAM]
We just finished the first night event. One of seven events happening in total here in Vietnam.
It’s very emotionally and mentally and spiritually draining. This trip is really heavy.
Just all the logistics and not, yeah. It’s hard. They’ve never done a thing
like this before. You know, actually, they made this clip of
me and my wife, and they wanted me to talk about relationships and family—it made me
miss them a lot more. So that sucks. My wife said, you know, if you went for a month,
nly fruit that happened or came from it was from Vietnam, it’s all
worth it. They could see immediately the fruit of that sacrifice that we are honoring God in being apart.
This guy’s newspaper that’s what caught
my attention, I saw the front…oh, that’s me on the…look. Going right now to Hanoi,
which is the capital city of Vietnam, and while we’re on the plane, we’re all given
newspapers, and so we saw the front pages of several newspapers, which is pretty cool
to see. So a lot of people getting this message of hope, and it’s just incredible, so, we’re excited!
[CROWDS SHOUTING] Nick Vujicic! Nick Vujicic! Nick Vujicic!
Nick Vujicic! Nick Vujicic! Nick Vujicic! Nick Vujicic! Nick Vujicic!
I was asked if I would be willing to do one interview more. His first question was how
can you as an evangelist, be able to share about your faith in a country like Vietnam.
Halfway during my speech, I mentioned God and Jesus for the first time that my translator
froze, and I said, come on man. I believe whatever she does, she’ll do with
all of her heart. Do you want to know why I love God? Come on man. Because I know heaven
is real. And one day, when I get to heaven, we’re going to have arms and legs. And we’re
going to run. And we’re going to play. And I’m going to race you, OK? We’re going
to race. Haha! I knew that the translator had known what
I said, and I really felt the Lord urging me and pushing me to say it at that time,
bring some faith-based things in that night. I reiterated that we come in love and respect,
and we know everyone has a different religion, we need to love everyone, but I know that
people are intrigued by the source, and to get to the source of how I became who I am
and my strength and my life’s purpose, I would not have it without my faith in God.
Hey! She’s afraid of my beard!
It scares me. Your beard scares me. Is this the end of Nick Vujicic’s beard?
The whole night came to that wonderful pinnacle and climax of seeing this little girl with
no arms and no legs, and at first, you know, she was a little shy, but that’s when, you
know, what do you tell a family who has a child with no arms and no legs? And yes, I
come from the West and I have a cool wheelchair, and I have caregivers, and I was raised in
Australia where society generally, in the late 1980s, was very accepting. How do you
encourage them, on their level? Because obviously, it was seen that I had quote unquote more
opportunities than this little girl, and I said, you want to know why I’m looking forward
to heaven? Because I know that we’re going to have arms and legs and we’re going to
run together in heaven, and that’s why I love God, and that’s my hope.
I’m going to pray for you. Lord Jesus, I pray for this mother, and I thank You Lord
that You have given her the grace to be alive. Give her peace. Give her rest. Give her faith.
And thank You Lord that she’s not alone. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
We were on the stage, and about 25,000 people were there, and I heard some thunder roll
in the middle of it, and I’m thinking oh man, I just hope it doesn’t rain because
a lot of people who were sitting in the stadium do not have a roof over their heads. I saw
a couple big drops, and then, bang, a million drops of rain just came down, and they were
massive drops of rain. And we were on live TV, so no one knew what to do. It was just
a really cool spirit of joy. I don’t want an umbrella. I don’t care.
We’re fine. It’s great. I love you! You guys are great.
Not even pouring rain would stop it. I loved it.
So we just had an article released from AP, which was picked up by Yahoo and Fox—it’s
a pretty big deal. So we’re excited. The article itself was written really well. It
looks like I’m sort of like either a rude speaker or very courageous.
We had a speaking engagement at a soccer game; it was a competition that they do every year
for children who are either orphans or juvenile delinquents. To see Vietnam giving an opportunity
to these kids to feel more purpose or loved or belonging, giving them a chance to build
up their confidence and self-esteem, I felt was a positive thing.
Some of the biggest dreams in life, only you can believe in them.
We’re so thankful for Mr. Vu, that I really felt our hearts connected, and our minds connected.
A couple times he teared up—if I could sum it up, he was just overwhelmed, and he was
just sharing about how he was touched by the courage that he saw in us. He was the one
who really backed up all the stadiums. He paid for all that TV time, and he didn’t
care to recover his money. He felt this is what he was supposed to do.
Nick! I love you, we love you! We had a stadium of about 35,000 people. It
actually went beyond the normal capacity. It was suggested, well, let’s get chairs
and get another 5,000 chairs on the field itself. The authorities of that stadium and
the city would never have normally said yes to that.
Hello everyone! This is the biggest crowd we’ve had in Vietnam. 35,000 people! And
millions and millions on VTV, thank you VTV. It was a big thing where everyone from the
poor, the disabled, the orphans, to the average person there in that city, all the way up
to the business and governmental influential people. That in itself was unique, and we
were very blessed to see that happen. Arms and legs? It’s OK to prey for that,
right? Right? I have a pair in my closet, because I can believe in miracles. But the
miracle is this—that if I don’t get arms and legs here on Earth, and let them know
that there’s so much greater things than this Earth, itself can sell my dreams. So
take on day at a time, do your best, and get some faith. One day at a time. I love you
so much, and I believe in you. Thinking about what you could do, just imagining
what would I do if I was the leader of this country, where would I start.
So right now, we’re going and visiting an HIV-AIDS orphanage.
In some cases, children as young as 4 years old were forced into sex slavery.
How do you try to tell someone to stop doing what they’re doing while they’re making
probably 40,000 dollars a month. If they only have maybe 5, 6 girls. So it’s greed and
power and the lust of the world. It will be known, it will be made known.