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While Away
I have arrived safely back in Vietnam after a brief visit back to the States. I have to make this trip at least twice a year to check in with my doctors and have medications adjusted. Don't get the wrong impression. This doesn't mean I am in bad health, it just means that after 82 years, it takes a little more maintenance to keep this body moving.
While in the States I visited with my children and also my sponsoring congregations. I also attended the Medical Missions workshop in Dallas with my good friend Lewis Pearson.
At the workshop I met Tuan Dam (pictured above with his family). Tuan, along with his brother, escaped Vietnam after the war. Though he was very ill, some people put him and his brother on a barge and pushed it out into the river hoping an American ship would pick them up. After a few days, one did and he was brought to America where he grew up. Tuan was led to Christ by a brother Bixler. Bixler had been a missionary to Japan decades before and when Elizabeth Bernard traveled to China the first time, she stayed with his family for a few days (you can read that story in my book: Ah Wing's Elizabeth Bernard). It is encouraging when you read about people of God helping others and how far and wide their stories become.
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 Passing In May of 2010, I wrote about Tran Thi Ket, one of our new converts. The mother of seven, her husband was killed during the Vietnam war. Drunken North Vietnamese soldiers forced him to row them up river for several hours. Then they shot him. Because she had no one else to keep her children, she took them with her to find her husband. When she located the body, she rowed him and her children back to their home. Perhaps you remember the story. One of my points was that through showing Christ to her by helping others - particularly her grandchildren, she became interested in the gospel and became part of the family of God. I ended the story with these words: "Now she is a part of the family of God. As I began making arrangements to return to Vietnam this time, Ket became very ill. The folks at Oklahoma Christian were very kind to allow Ngan to return home to visit with her and she was blessed to be with her grandmother before she passed. I concluded my article about Ket's baptism with these words: "She is now a part of the family of God." I can conclude this one confident that she is now in His presence.
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The Future and a Special Need
This coming April, Hai (pictured on the left below) will graduate from the Four Seas College of the Bible in Singapore. He will return to preach for the congregation in Can Tho and I am looking forward to having him here. One of the churches in Singapore will be his sponsor until the church here is self-supporting
Not long after my arrival back in Vietnam, I traveled to Singapore to meet with our students and visit with supporters there. It was a wonderful trip. Back now we begin to work on open ing our English school.
I do have a special need I'd like to mention to you.
Two of our young students, Ngan and Uyen, have come to America to study in our Christian colleges. Ngan, of course, completed her course work at Harding last December and graduated, making the Dean's list. Thanks to a generous scholarship from Oklahoma Christian University, and the generosity of a group of contributors, She has gone on to Oklahoma to complete her Masters in Business Administration, hopefully completing that next year. Uyen (pictured below) is in her junior year at Faulkner University - also on a generous scholarship. We are short on the money to see her degree through to completion. $10,000 will pay for all her expenses through her graduation in May of 2013 and her travel expenses back to Vietnam after that. We are looking for contributors who will commit to making that possible. If you could underwrite all of that amount, or even part of it, we could be sure that she will finish. Send your contributions to the Amazing Grace address and mark them for Uyen's College fund. 
Thanks for reading. In our next newsletter, I will tell you about our new website that ought to be up and running by then. |
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Our History
Tom Tune has been doing mission work in Vietnam for nearly a decade. He has established two churches, one in Saigon and another in Can Tho. He has also founded "Tom's Kids," a charity devoted to educating poor children. "Tom's Kids" is administered by Amazing Grace International, Inc., a Virginia Charity.
Tom has been a missionary since 1961 when he and his family went to Hong Kong. There he established two churches and published a variety of literature in both Chinese and English -- including a hymnal. He has worked in Guyana, the Mediterranean, Fiji, and The Cook Islands. The Work at a Glance:
* Tom Tune has been a missionary for 50 years.
* We have 145 children in school.
* 2 students studying at Christian Universities in the States.
* 1 student graduated from Bible college in Singapore.
* 4 Students currently in Bible College in Singapore.
* Have established 2 congregations in Vietnam in 5 years.
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Sponsoring Congregations: Tom Tune's work is overseen by the following churches:
Wills Point church of Christ, 302 Corky Boyd Ave., Wills Point, TX 75169 (903) 873-3106 -- http://www.wpcoc.us/
Send Support to:
Support for Tom should be made out to Pacific Missions and sent to 8008 Limerick Lane, North Richland Hills, TX 76180.
You can send a poor child to school for $15 a month. Send your tax deductible contributions to Amazing Grace International, P.O. Box 8453, Falls Church, VA 22041. Mark contributions for "Tom's Kids."
Write to Tom Tune at Tom@Dorcasue.com
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