August & September Updates

Dear Co-laborers in the Lord’s harvest,

We thank God for your partnership throughout these months when we walked in some very important steps to establish Antioch Evangelical Church (AEC). Many times hearing from brothers and sisters in Christ, especially those have heart for mission, either you thought of us, recalled our fellowship time together, or had been praying for us, or even said a word of blessing and (many times) prophesying :) for our church, we are always blessed. Undoubtedly, in order for you to be where are you now, blossoming with God-given ministry, you went through the first-hand and brand-new experience like what we have. Therefore, you understand very well how your faithful and earnest prayers, inspiring word of encouragements, generous financial support really mean to us. We cherish each of encouragements from you and we see it as God’s divine moments to uphold and coach us for the ministry that He has called us to do. We appreciate you and what you have done! Our church prays for you, your home, your church, your business as you have been extending your kindness to us. We also pray that our partnership will be stronger as time passes so that we all can do more for His kingdom and glory.

In the past two months, though our focus was to organize church structure, strengthen our new believers’ spiritual life and build intimate relationship between church members, we thank God for adding three more souls to our congregation. They are the results of the sport ministry, a new ministry in our church. Since then, they have been very active in church activities and growing in God’s Word wonderfully. As they prayed, one of them was healed partially from innate heart disease, another one experienced God’s powerful work in his heart, making him strong and confident, and the other started loving the Word and won the second prize in our church Bible context. These things happened also as the result of the series of sermons on prayer preached in these two months, beginning with one-day seminar on Meditation. We are now so encouraged that more than 80% of our church members have their quite time every day. And every service is a great blessing and inspiration to hear from their testimonies how God touched their life, answered their prayers, and transformed their hearts. All glory belongs to God alone!

Dear Friends, in this prayer letter, we would like to show you some pictures of our church activities and also a special testimony of one couple who have been a great blessing for us. We also need your prayer for some of crucial concerns of our church. Once again, thank you so much for your heart for us and for the Vietnamese. May God bless you richly!

Training EE for Lead Team

Giving Awards for Monthly Bible Contest
AEC soccer team

AEC soccer team with the cheer team

We still remember in December 21, 2009 we celebrated and blessed a new couple in their marriage with a burden for Miss Thuy, the wife-to-be. Thuy became Christian in 2004 but Thang, the one she would get married was a non-believer. We tried to contact with Thuy after long time she did not go to church and encouraged her to repent and return to God. When she recommitted her life to Jesus, we prayed for her and organized a party to bless them through which we aimed to reach the husband-to-be. After more than 6 months expressing Christian love and care, overcoming some certain opposition, we witnessed Thang surrendering his life to Christ in June20, 2010 by God's faithfulness and wonderful work. He is now a very active member, a faithful and generous giver, a cell group leader, and the manager of our church soccer team. Praise God!

In Mrs. Thuy's birthday