CN 2304: The Testimony of Kim Ha
By June Klins

Featured article from February's Spirit of Medjugorje

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The Testimony of Kim Ha
By June Klins

In July of 2012, the website, www.marytv.tv, started broadcasting a wonderful program called “Fruit of Medjugorje” on Monday and Thursday evenings at 8:00 P.M. Each episode features the testimony of one or more people whose lives have been changed through Our Lady of Medjugorje. MaryTV keeps all the episodes in their archives, so if you miss the original program, you can watch it later. When I watched Episode 95, which was originally aired on December 2, 2013, I felt prompted to share one of the testimonies in that segment – that of a Vietnamese lady named Kim Ha.

Kim Ha, who lives in California, began by saying that although she originally heard about Medjugorje in 1997, she did not pay attention until a friend invited her to a Medjugorje conference in October of 1998. She went out of curiosity, but was very touched after hearing the testimony of Patrick and Nancy Latta (see our May, 2013 issue). Kim bought a book about Medjugorje at the conference, and read the entire book in one night. After she finished the book, she prayed and told Our Lady that she was ready if Our Lady wanted to use her to spread the messages.

One month later, she landed a radio program, which she still has today! On the program, Kim translates Our Lady’s messages and articles about Medjugorje into Vietnamese, and she interviews people about their testimonies. Kim has been doing this for 15 years now, and also maintains two websites: MeMaria.org and MeMaria.net. She explained that the “Me” in the website address means “Mother” in Vietnamese, so it is “Mother Maria.org.” She estimated that she has reached about 50 million people.

In May of 1999, Kim felt Our Lady calling her to Medjugorje. Although she did not want to be a tour leader, because of all the work and responsibility, Our Lady had other plans. Kim has now been a tour leader for 15 pilgrimages to Medjugorje! She said that she goes to Medjugorje every year, not only as her mission, but to “recharge her batteries” and to experience the peace that is there.

Kim said, “It’s interesting to work for Our Lady because you see a lot of things happen in your life.” Before her conversion, Kim didn’t pray the Rosary regularly. Now she prays it all the time. Since she retired from her job as a state auditor, she has more time to pray and work for Our Lady.

Kim shared a few experiences she has had over the years. She told the story of a lady who was one of her pilgrims in 2001. This lady had not shared her personal life with the group, but when they were at Adoration in St. James Church, Kim noticed that she was praying very hard and crying a lot. When they got back to the pansion (bed and breakfast), the lady shared that she saw the face of Jesus in the monstrance. She said He was so happy to see them all kneeling in front of Him, but for a moment He was sad.

When they returned to the U.S., the lady’s five year-old autistic son, who never spoke prior to this, opened his mouth and said, “Mom, I want bread,” and then said, “Mom, I want water.” She was stunned! Kim said to her, “That’s the message – Our Lady wants us to fast on bread and water on Wednesdays and Fridays.” Those were his first complete sentences: “I want bread. I want water.” He is now a teenager, and spends a lot of time in front of the tabernacle adoring Jesus. Kim said, “It was a miracle of healing.”

Our Lady of La Vang

Then Kim told the story of a group of five people who went to Medjugorje with her in 2003. She said that as soon as they got to Medjugorje, they went right up Cross Mountain. Four of the people in the group saw Our Lady, but She came as Our Lady of La Vang, which is a Vietnamese devotion. She was standing with Baby Jesus, smiling and listening to the people for over an hour as they prayed five Rosaries and the Divine Mercy Chaplet. Our Lady was still there when they left. The one man who did not see Our Lady recorded the apparition with his video camera as he prayed. When he returned home and looked at his recording, Our Lady was on there! Kim said members of the group still have a copy of it. She noted that those who have an older TV can see Our Lady, but those who have a new, fancy TV cannot see Her. Interesting!

Kim then shared a story of a priest she met at the Visitation Station on Apparition Hill in 2008. When her group stopped there to pray, she noticed the priest praying with them, but he was crying hard as he prayed. Kim was curious, so she asked him if he would mind sharing why he was crying so hard. He said that 10 years before, he had seen Our Lady at that Station. At that time, he was not a priest, but had been married with six children and had just lost his wife. He was in his fifties at the time. Our Lady appeared to him at that Station and asked him to become a priest. He said he was old and sick and could not become a priest. But on the way down the hill, he said he felt very driven to become a priest. He did study to become a priest, and when he was ordained he was in his sixties. He told Kim that every year he has to go back to Medjugorje to praise and glorify God and thank Our Lady for choosing him as a priest.

Kim shared that a few of her pilgrims have given up prestigious jobs to enter religious life. One pilgrim was an engineer with a six-figure salary who owned two houses. She gave it all up to become a nun.

Kim ended her testimony by saying, “I thank God for choosing me to be an instrument to bring the Gospel and Gospa’s messages to the whole world.”

Editor’s note: When searching for a picture of Kim, I ran across the fact that Kim’s site, MeMaria.org is among the Top Ten Vietnamese Catholic websites!

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