200 workers heard the gospel

This morning Thuan had a chance to share the salvation through Zacchaeus' life in front of 200 workers of a clothing company. That audience also heard my testimony last week. Friends, we really thank God for the opportunity.
Last month, a lady talked to me about this clothing company of a Christian family who holds Monday prayer time before the week work, and she asked if I could come and help their young workers and staff. I doubted that if there was really a company praticing that great custom. One week after that, the lady phoned me at 10:30 pm to ask if I could go there tomorrow morning with a song and a short speech. I agreed after discussing with Thuan. Then, we got there that Monday, full of workers, full of energy in a warm and clean factory room. We were requested to greet them, to sing a song, and to encourage them. And we did it in both excitement and nervousness.
The factory owner seemed to like us and officially asked us to be the chaplain of her company because she wanted to open Bible Study every Saturday for few believer workers and for those who are interested. And this is the third time we came where Thuan had a chance to share the gospel. We started praying for the salvation of these workers.
We thank God for the open door. We thank God for the opportunity to serve. And we thank God for those who have heard and will be saved into His Kingdom.

Training & Practicing

This week, we started training our 4 disciples, 2 for Thuan and 2 for me, in our church planting team (we are 6 in all) and began demonstrating for them the gospel outline in our personal outreach time. It was exciting but nervous! Though I had been sharing the gospel for 10 years since I received Christ but to be an example for my students, I felt nervous and a bit pressure. It caused me to pray harder then. =) But it turned to good. Though the hearers did not respond to the call but they got a better understanding about the gospel. This is an exciting journey@! I am looking forward to the end of the training to see how God will bring people for us to share and how my disciples will grow and benefit in this.

Life Devotion

Dear Ministry and Prayer Partners,
Jesus Christ’s Great Commission is Christian’s utmost concern. Men and women of all eras since the Early Church period, generations next generations, devote their life to fulfill the Father’s desire, “not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance” (II Peter 3:9). It’s also the devotion of your life and ours. We believe no reason has been important and powerful than that which causes you to invest a lot of your love, prayer, care, time, financial support and so many other great things in our ministry to reach Vietnam for Christ in the process of fulfilling our Lord’s Great Commission. Thank you for doing that for Him, for His glory, and for His kingdom through us!


During the Luna New Year, we came back to Thuan’s hometown. Just as usual, my father-in-law made coffee and expected me (Esther) to share with him both coffee and many long stories that he had experienced in sharing his faith from the day Thuan and I were away from home. I noticed since I first came to Thuan’s house as his girl-friend that my father-in-law just put a little bit coffee into the cup and he would stir his coffee strongly for long time. He said the more we stir coffee as we make, the sweeter it is when we drink.

Almost 10 years Thuan and I have been together, we have built a good custom that whenever we return home, we would visit the new converts that our father brought to church. As a young woman pursuing God’s call, I have learned so much from my father-in-law and I can tell you that just like his way of making and drinking coffee: the more he sows the gospel seed as he faithfully does, the sweeter the fruit is when he reaps. You all know that our greatest passion is for evangelism and I always encourage Thuan when he dreams of the future of Vietnam: “You have the faith heritage.” And it is Thuan’s parents who asked him and his brother to kneel down every night on their rough ground as they offered their sons to God for the mission field. Never demanding from us anything, especially finance, our parents farm and live their content lives, and demonstrate an excellent example of ordinary Christians who love God and love the lost. Besides, they keep encouraging, cheering us up, and praying for us to give our best to the Lord.

Thuan and I are forever grateful for such godly and faithful parents who run the race not only for the prize but also run in a way to leave to us the fire of their devotion. We want to put into this letter some testimonies of God’s amazing works through our parents’ ministry. Our father is neither a pastor nor a church leader, he is just a Christ’s follower. We pray that may the footprints that they leave lead us to believe and the lives they live inspire us to obey so that all who come behind us will also find us faithful! (Find us faithful - Steve Green).

My father-in-law met Mrs. Son in the first week of February, 2005 when he was looking for someone to sell coconut leaves. Mrs. Son showed her special interest to my father’s Gospel presentation and a week after that, she and her husband who had been suffered serious spinal column pain received Christ when they came to our house to take the coconut leaves. In that same week, Thuan and I came home. As we visited them, Thuan shared God’s promise of healing and prayed for Mr. Thang, Mrs. Son’s husband in their poor wooden cottage. After a week, we received a phone call from our parents saying that the husband got healed miraculously and could return to work after many years laying down on his sick bed.

Mrs.Son's Family in their house
In April, 2006, we came back from the Philippines and to our surprise, they had built a big and beautiful house. Their three children had grown up, loving God. The husband was a prayer team leader and the wife was an active member in women’s church ministry.
We visited them last February and I had a chance to share the Gospel with Mr. Thang’s brother. And that man said: “Your dad evangelized all of my brothers and sisters already but we are still thinking about it!”:)
Thuong's Family

In a day of July, 2008, my father-in-law attended a funeral service where he met Thuong, a teenager who received Christ in Ho Chi Minh City. She asked my father-in-law if he could come to her house and evangelize her family members. My father-in-law took the opportunity and came to her house when the funeral service was over. On the way back home, he called me telling that Thuong’s mother and brother received Christ. I could not believe that an oldest member and eldest son of the family in our culture became Christian! However, I had to confess my unbelief with God’s work when I heard that 8 others in Thuong’s family were converted after 2 months. Because of the new believers in the area, a daughter church was soon planted and started the Sunday worship in a Christian’s house. I felt so blessed when my father-in-law was honored in church service the morning we attended because of his contribution in planting that daughter church and because most of new believers added to the church this year are fruit of his labor. To God be all gloried!

The daughter church

Back to Thuong’s family, they neither had a land to build house for living nor had jobs for survival but now God granted them a land and the children have jobs. We have been praying to help them in their house building projects.


Yes, we have the faith heritage! And we thank God for good examples of evangelistic Christians in our families, not just my father-in-law but our families both sides. Therefore, our life devotion is not laid on our theological training in seminary but on eye-witnessing of many life transformations in my parents’ ministry and through Thuan’s parents’ evangelistic heart.

As you all know we have been pursuing to establish an evangelistic organization in Vietnam. On the way of finding God’s directions for that, we have discovered Evangelism Explosion fulfills our expectations for a workable and practical approach to reach the Vietnamese. After praying and asking God’s will on that, we now have decided to join Evangelism Explosion. Thuan will be full-time with EE and I have been helping their field workers in reporting and somehow coaching. Besides, we started implementing Evangelism Explosion Method into our church planting and we have seen God added more converts into our church. We absolutely need your prayers in this critical stage of our ministry. God is opening doors for us in an amazing way. We are looking forward to declaring God’s works through our ministry in the next newsletter.

Thank you for standing besides us by your prayer and support. It’s Him who caused us to live for the call and to live confidently and boldly everyday with your strong and committed partnership. May God bless you, your home, ministry, work abundantly for you have given to Him generously and faithfully!

Yours in reaching Vietnam for Christ,

Thuan, Esther & Kairos Phan

Luis Palau in Vietnam

We are inspired by message of Dr. Pstr Luis Palau and his team. We take it personally to "dream the great dream, to pray great prayer, and obey His command." No doubt, God is opening doors that no one can shut. Amen!

The new and first-hand Experience

I heard many testimonies about people who came to Christ after joining Bible Study but we experienced that the first time in our life! I met Son in a business conference where I served as an interpreter. He came to me, wondering about my friendliness and warm look to people. I told him because I am a Christian! He came to my house sometimes and we sat and talked. He came to our church Christmas event and we shared with him the gospel. He introduced his girlfriend for us and we soon became friends and we went out for coffee. We shared the gospel with them again. They said they wanted to have Bible so they can understand more about God. We then told them that we wanted to help teaching them some main truths in the Bible for them. And surprisingly they accepted. I was so happy on the way home because this is the first time I see non-believers agree to join Bible Study to know more about God. I know for many, it's not much to be really happy but I am just really happy!

The Luna New Year

The beauty of countryside

Making Bánh Tét for the Tet holiday

Thuan's parents and his three siblings

Thuan's whole family

The Luna New Year was a learning and growing experience to both of us as we spent time with our families both sides, somehow ministering to them and strengthening the family relationships of God’s servants’ homes. We thank God that we have two blessed families serving Him in different areas and being supporters for us ever since we have committed to serve Him.

EE Clinic

In November, 2009, I came to interpret for Field Worker Training of Evangelism Explosion (EE) and after a week I knew more about EE and started feeling interested about using their materials for my church planting project. Thuan and I after that had a chance to sit with EE leaders and we started considering EE to fulfill our long-term vision of an evangelistic organization in Vietnam. Attending EE Clinic is a result of that consideration. We are grateful that we had that opportunity to join and to be inspired. We believe that this is something that God has designed for us to do. I am grateful to the EE team and for those who sponsored our event.