Faith Project Updates - How amazing!

In January 23, on the first Sunday we launched the faith project for our church building. We can't believe how it works. In order for the project to be worked out, we need to have 450,000 VND ($22) offered per week for the whole of the first year. Amazingly, 21 members committed to give and the amount was exact 450,000 VND ($22)! And they started giving for the first week. Praise God! This project will be worked out for AEC and ultimately for God's glory!
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In January 30, God continued to challenge 7 others people to give for the project: 1,100,000 VND. ($58)! 2 of them are the couple of Duyen, a Vietnamese and Gary, an American who pledged $50 and we have 3 kids whose parents taught them to give 1 cent/week. So now we have 1,550,000 VND ($80), 3 times from our initial goal and prayer. How amazing! Wow! Wow!***

In February 6, one more person committed to give 5 cents/a week. So now we have 1.560.000 VND/week ($80.5).
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In Feb 13, one more person commits to give $10 and we are happy that Gary and Duyen want to give $25/week instead of $50 so they won't drop in the middle of the project so now we have $600/week. Praise God!
...Tobe continued...

Faith Project

FAITH PROJECT

Dear brothers and sisters,

All of us would not dare to think of a church building of AEC, and if we ever thought of that, we might think of our pastor raising fund from overseas because our church is small, and most of congregations are students, workers and small business dealers…, how can we have the amount of billions of VND to build the AEC building?

May I ask you to read through this 5-year project to see how we can build AEC building by our faith in God and how we can have billions of VND for the building.

1. If we have 20 people who commit to give for the 1^st year:

No. of ppl	Amount	A Week	A Month	A Year (52 weeks)
10	10,000	100,000	400,000	5,200,000
5	20,000	100,000	400,000	5,200,000
5	50,000	250,000	1,000,000	13,000,000
Total		450,000	1,800,000	23,400,000 ($1,115)

· 2. If we have 37 people who commit to give for the 2^nd year:

No. of ppl	Amount	A Week	A Month	A Year (52 weeks)
15	10,000	150,000	600,000	7,800,000
10	20,000	200,000	800,000	10,400,000
10	50,000	500,000	2,000,000	26,000,000
2	100,000	200,000	800,000	10,400,000
Total		1,050,000	7,200,000	54,600,000 ($2,600)

· 3. If we have 68 people who commit to give for the 3^rd year:

No. of ppl	Amount	A Week	A Month	A Year (52 weeks)
20	10,000	200,000	800,000	10,400,000
20	20,000	400,000	1,600,000	20,800,000
20	50,000	1,000,000	4,000,000	52,000,000
5	100,000	500,000	2,000,000	26,000,000
3	200,000	600,000	2,400,000	31,200,000
Total		2,700000	10,800,000	140,400,000 ($6,686)

· 4. If we have 136 people who commit to give for the 4^th year:

No. of ppl	Amount	A Week	A Month	A Year (52 weeks)
40	10,000	400,000	1,600,000	20,800,000
40	20,000	800,000	3,200,000	41,600,000
40	50,000	2,000,000	8,000,000	104,000,000
10	100,000	1,000,000	4,000,000	52,000,000
8	200,000	1,600,000	6,400,000	83,200,000
Total		5.800.000	23,200,000	301,600,000 ($14,362)

· 5. If we have 207 people who commit to give for the 5^th year:

No. of ppl	Amount	A Week	A Month	A Year (52 weeks)
60	10,000	600,000	2,400,000	31,200,000
60	20,000	1,200,000	4,800,000	62,400,000
60	50,000	3,000,000	12,000,000	156,000,000
15	100,000	1,500,000	6,000,000	78,000,000
12	200,000	2,400,000	9,600,000	124,800,000
Total		8,700,000	34,800,000	452,400,000 ($21,543)

In this regard, after 5 years, we would have: 972,000,000 (approximately $47,000) from our own congregation’s giving commitment and faithfulness. (This must be different from our tithe).We would be sending the money offered for this project monthly to a bank account that held by our pastor and church treasurer. So after 5 years, together with interest, we would have more than 1,200,000,000 VND (approximately $57,000) We do not count the special givings from our people and from outside who would be moved to give for this project. By faith, when this project works out for 5 years, we will buy land for our church building and we do another 5-year project for the construction.

Dear AEC,

“Because nothing is imppossible with God,” we believe that with God we can make miracles.

You can make miracles with God by prayers and commitment to give every week. For this year, the smallest amount is 10,000 VND (nearly 50cents)/week and the biggest is 50,000 VND (nearly $2.5 ).This is the amount calculated for week, month, a year, and 5 years that one can give according their faith and commitment:

No.	A Week	A Month	A Year (52 weeks)
1	10,000	40,000	520,000 ($25)
2	20,000	80,000	1,040,000 ($50)
3	50,000	200,000	2,600,000 ($124)
4	100,000	400,000	5,200,000 ($248)
5	200,000	800,000	10,400,000 ($496)

Let’s work with God to see miracle happen!

On behalf of AEC Lead Team: Treasurer Trần Thị Bích Thúy

Sow a seed in prayer and just wait for the harvest

Le Huong in the Baptism Day

Kim Van in the Baptism Day

Kim Van & Le Huong in strategy to be prayed and reached

Kim Van & Le Huong, together with To Phuong in our English class in park

Sow a seed in prayer and just wait for the harvest, it's what we did with a group of To Phuong's collage mates and roommates. As I met and shared Christ with Phuong in a park nearby our house, she was the only one in the three first converts to our church that attended our Bible Study in the first 3 months of our church. And we planned and prayed to reach out to her friends. That's why I taught them in English class 2 Saturdays a month in the park. I inserted Christian values into our lessons so they felt something different in my way of living. We had a very good relationship with this group of 15 girls. Phuong secretly invited one by one to our church for several times in different occasions. And finally, God answered our prayers and responded to our efforts. Le Huong and Kim Van, the close pair in their group surrendered their lives to God. In the month that they went to the follow-up class, we found so much joy in seeing them grow in Christ. Praise God!

John 15:16 for Linh

Anh & Linh in Anh's Baptism Day

Linh, our staff cried before us one time in our prayer time when we started this church. She said why she is "barren" spiritually. She prayed earnestly, had heart for mission completely, shared compassionately but no one came to Christ through her testimony or witnessing. We asked God to empower her and make her fruitful. And God started working. Last year, she brought 5 people to Christ and Anh is her uncle.

Mrs. Hoa testifying

God's purpose for His children is to bear much fruit and fruit that will last (John 15:16). We used to buy things in a good shop in our market that Mrs. Hoa owns. She used to work for the army of Vietnam as her dad and her husband. With a family that is happy, successful and rich, she still looked for something that missing in her heart. Till she talked to Linh because she found something diffrent in Linh. Linh shared with her about the eternal life in Jesus Christ. On the first Sunday she attended church, she cried as she entered the church and listened to the hymn "Near to God." She said she had been looking for something missing but she did not know. She was born in Christmas Eve so she used to think she must be God's child but no one told her about that. Till she met Linh. She knew that it was Jesus who came to earth on that Christmas Eve to save her and give her assurance for living with Him. God really works in and through Linh to prove her that He has called me to bear fruit and fruit that will last.

"Thought I could never walk with God again!"

Thuy & Thang in Thang's baptism day

Thuy cried as she testified how grateful she isseeing her husband
serving God in Christmas: "Thought I could never walk with God again!"

June 20 - Thang received Christ.

The news that Thuy got married to a non-believer guy saddened my heart. I remember in 2003 when I first came to Da Nang, a city of Central Vietnam for work, I led Nguyet to Christ and Nguyet was Thuy’s classmate then. As a new believer, Nguyet brought Thuy to church and I called her to receive Christ into her heart as her Savior and Lord. To my joy, Thuy offered her life to Christ. We had a great time growing and faith and serving God together in Da Nang for 3 years. And then, I left Da Nang for my theological training. 2009 as I came back I heard that she no long walked with God and even worshiped idols again in her wedding day.

We prayed for her, asking God’s forgiveness and interference to save Thuy again and even save her husband. We started contacting with them. Thuy was not that willing because she hardly thought of her husband to be a Christian. After 3 months demonstrating Christian love to this couple, Thang surrendered his life to God in our great joy.

Thang’s testimony is also an awesome story. He grows up with single mom and experienced a lot of failure in his life and work, till the point that he wanted to commit suicide. That’s why the gift of eternal life to him was so precious when he heard about the gospel.

Now we thank God for having this couple in our church. Thuy is our treasurer and Thang is a cell group leader and a Lead Team member.