Bible Society Vietnam (BSV), in partnership with the Christian Business & Marketplace Connection Vietnam has established The Christian Library. The ultimate goal of this project is to initiate Bible engagement activities among Vietnamese Christians through Bible reading, learning, and preaching, as well as facilitating and sustaining biblical and theological studies. 

This project will support two key staff and grow the library resources to 20,000 titles. Once this library is well established, BSV and other donors would like to replicate The Christian Library in Hanoi City in North Vietnam.  

The Library Trustees are keen that after three years of international support (2021-2023), the Vietnamese Christian community will be able to take ownership of the ongoing running costs. In the meantime, a key cost of this project is the salaries of the library director and library officer. 

The total number of people this project aims to impact is 5,000. This includes the 3,000+ theological students as well as 2,000 other hoped for patrons of the library (among the 60,000+ Christians who reside in Ho Chi Minh City). 

Since its beginning, the project has successfully imported 1,200 new Biblical studies and theology books. This has increased the library to around 10,000 books, with the board considering e-library options for future-proofing. 

This library will provide easy access for Vietnamese Christians by providing a wealth of both Vietnamese and English Biblical and theological resources and other evangelical Christian literature. Access to these resources will increase the theological insight of generations of students into the future.  

The Christian Library will also be a source of great encouragement for lay people, enabling them to do their own theological study and reflection, leading to a strengthening of faith.  

So far, the project has already impacted 3,500 people.