Agape Church

AGAPE OUTREACH CHURCH VIETNAM

REPORT: APRIL 2010

Pastor Duong Quang Vinh

I, SUMMARY SOME OF THE MAIN WORKS ACHIEVED IN APRIL

April 2^nd : Evangelistic meeting on Good Friday night ; Sunday 4^th : Evangelistic meetings on Easter.; Monday 5^th : Fasting and prayer meeting ; April 5^th - 8^th : Agape School of Ministry in Saigon ; Saturday 10^th : Preaching the Gospel at the Catholic Pastoral Center in Saigon ; April 12^th - 14^th : Agape School of Ministry in Hanoi.

Sunday 18^th : Baptism ceremony at the Lake Two in Son Tay Province near Hanoi ; April 22^nd - 23^rd : Mission to the Mekong Delta.; Friday night 23^rd : Healing worship service.

II. SIGNS, WONDERS, MIRACLES AND BLESSINGS IN APRIL 2010

• Touched by the Holy Spirit and having had the same heart with me, 132 pastors and church leaders together with hundreds of believers of the Agape churches have joined with me in the chain of 40 days of fasting and prayers starting from April 1^st to May 10^th .God begins to move strongly among the local churches in witnessing and in healing. Many cases of devil's possession in the rural area were healed and now they become the members of the church. Haleluja! Praise the Lord!

• During one week of Good Friday and Easter, there are 68 people converted to the Kingdom of God  through the evangelistic meetings. In the Agape Jerusalem church where  I am pastoring, there are 35 people believing in the Lord Jesus and most of them are student from high school and colege. One member of the church, Ms Anh is a headmaster of the English Language School , brought 40 students to the church to attend the Easter worship service in English. After the sermon, I give the altar call and 35 of them rushed to the platform to pray for cconversion. Haleluja! The young generation belongs to Jesus!

These students are living in a neighboring province, Dong Nai 40 kilometers far from Saigon . We are praying how to follow them up.

• In the Agape church system, we have a Agape House to take care of  the orphans and the street children. We rent a  house in the slum area  in District 8 and one lady pastor is ministering this church. We give thanks to God for touching a couple of servant of God from Canada who love children and have a heart for  local churches and they come to the Agape House and paint the house , purchase some furniture for the children and provide 35 chairs for the three new churches in the Mekong Delta.

• On April 11^{th ,} I went to Hanoi for a mission and baptism ceremony. The weather was very cold from 12 degree C to 16 degree C because of the cold wind from the China flowing thru Vietnam . I had a very blessed week because almost every day God gave me a chance to talk to people about the love and the salvation of God in the Lord Jesus Christ and six people received Lord Jesus as their savior. On Saturday 17^th, the climate is still fròm 12C to 15C. To Vietnamese and especially to me, it's very cold and even extremely cold when I go into the water tomorrowm Sunday for water baptism. On Saturday night 17^th, the whole church with the new Christians come together pray for the warm weather tomorrow. We ask God for 20 degree C and a sunny day too because the last five days without sun, only fog, mist and dark clounds in the sky.

• Six o'clock in the morning, we drove to the biggest lake in Son Tay Town , about 70 kilometers far from Hanoi under the cold  and rainy weather. Forty- five of us worship and praise God in the bus and also pray for the warm weather. There are hundreds of tourists coming here for picnic on Sunday. We made friends with twenty-five students in the other bus and invite them to join us for picnic. After games, songs they enjoy themselves so much, I introduce myself as a pastor, saying " By a divine appoinment, we know one another. I would like to share to you about one booklet " Seven important things we should know in our life" and I believe it will be very interesting and helpful for your knowledge and your faith..." This is a booklet I just wrote during the time of forty days of fasting and prayer. Based on the book " Four Spiritual Laws", I wrote it  simpler and more common to every class of people in the society. 1. The Creator, God. 2. Sin. 3. Plan. 4. Believe. 5 Pray. 6, The church. 7. The Heaven. There are also about 24 adults standing around our circle listening my message. Haleluja! This is a harvest time for me to sow the seed of Gospel anytime and any place God sends me to. One big miracle I want to mention here is the sun rises at 11am and shines with warm rays. All of us shouted loudly " Haleluja! Praise the Lord for answering our prayer! Let's go to the lake for baptism. Hurry for the warm weather!"  Everybody enjoys as the children permitted to go swimming.. By the mercy and grace of God, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit I baptised 12 new Christians: 5 adults and 7 students. We went back to the church at 8pm with God's blessings and readiness to do God's will for His Kingdom.
• In the lasr three years, since 2008, I have not been arrested by the police for the work of the Lord. Sometimes the police phoned me to ask about the situation of the church especially on the special holidays such as Easter and Christmas or when I came back Vietnam from abroad. However, last April on 21^st when I went to the Mekong Delta for a mission, I got trouble from the local authority.  We just started the seminar 5 minutes, six policemen from the hamlet,  the district and the city pushed the gate and came into the house where we are meeting, We have 17 people altogether including pastors, church leaders and church workers. They accused us to gather illegally for religious meeting. 30 minutes later, they brought me to the police station in the Vinh Long, the name of the city. They kept me there from 2pm to 5:15 pm for interrogation and investigation . I was asked by three high officers: one captain and two second leutenant. As usual, I am very accustomed to questions like these: How many times you come here?; How do you these people? Who are you? Why don't you ask permission from the government? etc ...Usually,  at first the asmostphere is very tension with warning, accusation, but gradually, they talked  more softly and gently when they know who I  am a real servant of God. U have had a lot of persecutionlike this before, so to me, it warmed me up the fire of evangelsim. Haleluja! Of course, they also took names of the other Christians. There were 12 other Christians coming lto the seminat late, so they did not face the trouble. They were sitting in a café shop at the corner of the village to be waiting for our releasing.. What a wonderful adventure to serve the Lord in Vietnam ! Praise the Lord! Amen!

• Haleluja! By the power of God and by your love, your support and your intercession, I am still under the poweful hands of God with strong anointing, good health and wisdom to go here and there to expand the Kingdom of God  on this planet.  May God bless you again , empower you and anoint you more and more and May God use you to support Agape Church and help me, stand behind me to fulfill the Great  Command of God and to fulfill our destiny for the glory of our Father, God of Abraham, Isac and Jacob ! Amen! Haleluja!

Yours for His Kingdom!

Brother Vinh