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Garrett — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:25:21 GMT

Hi. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I am from Liechtenstein and also now teach English, give please true I wrote the following sentence: "Daily news on airlines, discount airfare sales, helping you find cheapest airline tickets for international and domestic flights."

Regards :( Garrett.

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Greg Bostock — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:03:48 GMT

Hey everyone
I am here right now in Ho Chi Minh City with our friends Dr Anh and Dr Nogc. tomorrow I will be singing at national Christmas concert ( O Holy night and one of my songs (light of the world) I will be signing the songs in there language so please pray that I will be able to minister to the hearts and lives of the people their each night.
Thank you Lighthouse for being a shining light is this country.

Greg Bostock Mission Vietnam

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Rene' Turner — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:00:38 GMT

WOW, here it is 5 months later and I'm re-reading these blogs and i'm sobbing like a big baby (as usual,I was the group cryer while there). I always say God gave me tears for a reason and I USE them.:) As I sit here and reflect on the trip and the ways I saw Jesus touch lives, definately mind included, it amazes me the amount of love and compassion I saw while we were there. Jesus revealed some things to me that I desperatley needed to be brought to my attention for example.
Jesus has led me to go to college so i'm now in my 3rd semester and LOVING it I might add. I had chosen Early Childhood Education as a major although my heart wasn't entirely in that field I knew I was being led to college but wasn't totally convinced the ECE is what I was being called to do. After going to Vietman I am now CERTAIN what he has led me to do.....Communications. Being in Vietman, a severly deprived country according to any USA standard. To me, everything about it screamed HELP!!!! In one of my classes the topic of advertising came up and I learned that McDonalds spends 10 BILLION dollars a YEAR in marketing and advertising. I got to thinking about how much good could be done in ANY third world country, not just Vietnam with even just 1 percent of that kind of dough. That really "'hit home" for me. I am now convinced that the Lord has led me to the communications field to eventually help raise money for third world countries. I know there are many, many people that already do this but there is still such a need. All of these people need Jesus and I want to help in ANY way I can to make sure EVERYONE knows the sacrifice he made for all of us how much He loves them.
Blessings to all. Love, Rene'

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Harold Pringle — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:22:25 GMT

Jim,

What a marvelous and heart wrenching testimony. God has used you well.

God Bless!

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Jim Klauser — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:58:33 GMT

Rewind to December 16, 1967. As I walked up the steps of the 707 and looked back at the Vietnam landscape, I said out loud, “There is no way that I will ever come back to this God-forsaken place”. I had spent the last 365 days in that country and I was ready to go back to the “World”.

Fast forward to January 2008. I had a dream that I was handing out cards to a large crowd of people and it was very urgent that they each received one. The cards had a series of numbers, 2 sets of two numbers and 2 sets of 3 numbers. A few days later, I heard about the Vietnam mission and wondered if it was part of this prophesy. I prayed about it and asked God if this mission was for me. I also prayed that if it was, then the doors would open to let me know. The doors swung wide open. I believe that God had chosen me to go back to Vietnam because there was work to be done. Then the spiritual attacks started. There was a time or two when I just threw my hands in the air and said, “I’m not going”! Then Donna and I would talk and pray about it and the attacks would subside.

Even after the team left for Vietnam the attacks weren’t over. When the plane started descending near the Vietnam coast, I started getting flashbacks from 1967. I thought to myself, “It looks just the same as it did 40 years ago”. I had flown on more than 100 missions over this part of Vietnam during my tour. I could even smell it before we landed. When the plane landed in Saigon, I found that I couldn’t get out of the seat. I just sat there for several minutes, staring out the window. I then heard that still, small voice saying “Get up Jim, I have work for you to do”. I answered back, “I’m just a nobody truck driver, what can I do?” “You’ll see”, the Voice said.

Was it decorating the kindergarten on Phu Quoc? Was it playing with the kids and taking their pictures? I know I was blessed when a little girl named Bam and her younger brother Lu asked to see the pictures I had taken. She recognized the picture of the church and said proudly, “My church!”. She then asked me hold out my hand and placed a small beaded bracelet in it and said, “For you”. I couldn’t hold back the tears. Maybe it was handing out candy and stuffed animals to the kids at the deaf and blind school at Bien Hoa. Maybe sharing a lunch of steamed rice with the orphans in Khe Sanh and buying them new shoes was what I was there for. How about on the flight from Hue to Saigon when I was sitting next to a Vietnamese businessman and he asked what I was doing in Vietnam. I told him, and he asked, “Why would you come all the way from America to do this?” I replied, ”Because we are Christians, and that’s what Christians do”. His nod and smile said it all. Will I go back?

“And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?’ Then I said, ‘Here am I! Send me'" Isaiah 6:8

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Paul Thompson — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:50:18 GMT

Dear partners in ministry. Eastside Baptist Church in Twin Falls has been praying for you. I'm thankful to God for your kindness to Matt and Jordan.

Matt and Jordan, Godspeed as you journey on and continue pointing those you meet to the better hope found in Christ.

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Paul Thompson — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:41:56 GMT

Matt and Jordan, I've been praying for the two of you today. I'm encouraged to know that you were able to get to the orphanage today too. May God be glorified by your being there!

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matt — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:29:44 GMT

Sara, we made the trip to orphanage yesterday,, it went very well your daughter is very beautiful and is loved by all we send you more info soon , buy for now.

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Jan Luckock — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:00:27 GMT

Wow Laura,
You write so beautifully. In lifegroup and any time I hear you speak, it is always from your heart and it touches mine. You have a wonderful gift. So I'm just going to say to the group.......

"DITTO"

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Laura Wall — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:27:06 GMT

I just want to thank the Lord for all He is and all He has done through His sent ones. Thank You Lord for all the seeds planted.Please rain down Your Holy Spirit on the parched ground of Vietnam and may the love and light that have been shared blossom into eternal life through the knowledge of the Saving One. I pray that the enemy would not come and scatter these seeds, but that he would be bound and gagged! All honor and all glory to the King of Kings!