January 22, 2011

"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.

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November 7, 2010

Amazing Thanksgiving Night!





It's great to see 7 who attending AEC for some time come to the decision of surrendering their lives to God. Amazingly, we now have 10 adults members come from the same area. "God is having a special concern about AEC." Our pastor said.

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November 3, 2010

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

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August 10, 2010

July Prayer Letter

Dear Co-workers in Christ,
We can’t express in words how much we are grateful to God for what He has done in the month of July when we had 2 important events for our church to be completed the first steps as an official church. God had blessed us with a powerful and touching first Baptism ceremony in July 17. We all cried in tears when we heard testimonies of God’s touching power upon our converts’ lives and also the commitments they had made to follow Jesus despite costs. Next, in July 28, He allowed us to launch our church before the witness of some key Christianity leaders in Ho Chi Minh City. His Name was again glorified through testimonies and songs of praise that our new members offered. We are grateful that He is somehow using us to expand His Kingdom and to continue nurturing vision for the future of Vietnam with the desire this people will turn to Him in repentance and adoration. We also acknowledge your great support in prayer and giving to help our mission. Thank you for all of your labor! We are being sustained by His grace and by your lifting-up. We appreciate that, our dear co-workers in Christ’s harvest! We pray for you, your home, your ministry and work that He will see you through all seasons of life and bless you abundantly.



The testimony of the oldest in church
The new believers singingThe Dance team of new believers
The church choir


PRAISE & PRAYER ITEMS

1. We thank God for giving us a name: Antioch Evangelical Church (AEC). We pray that we will be like the ancient Antioch in living a Christ-likeness’s life and sending many missionaries to save the nations.

2. We thank God for all provisions that He has provided through His men and women of generosity. Please pray that He will bless our partners so that they may enjoy His abundant blessings both financially and spiritually.

3. We praise God for our three new converts that being persecuted but have been taking the stand for God against their family’s order to forsake the faith. Please pray for God’s strength, power, and perseverance upon them.

4. We praise God for the blessed Baptism and Opening Ceremony. Please pray for the Lead-Team to have a clear and great vision and strategy from God to develop AEC.

THANK YOU SO MUCH and GOD BLESS YOU!

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