On the heels of our visit from CCNY, we welcomed a group from Seoul Foreign School (SFS) in Seoul, Korea. What a joy to welcome back Mark Altmann and Cathi Wiebusch, leaders from previous years. They brought with them a group of 14 students from all over the world as part of SFS’s Discovery Week, [...]
Friday, June 3, 2011
In mid-May we were blessed to host a group of college students and two professors from Concordia College New York (CCNY), an LCMS affiliated college. They were an enthusiastic bunch, with several of them having just graduated college the day before they left for Vietnam. The group arrived in very hot weather and spent their [...]
Thursday, April 14, 2011
We are so blessed to have Karen and Jerry Markin serving with us here in Vietnam. They have had a huge impact at Hung Vuong University, and their latest project only confirms this. Check out how they organized a school clean-up day among their students!
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
See how students at HVU live and also see how they cook! Thanks, Karen and Jerry, for all your work being salt and light to the students at HVU!
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
For the last two weeks of February, we were blessed to welcome a group led by Rev. Ron Pfluger and his wife Sally, from Bella Vista, Arkansas. Our relationship with Ron and Sally extends back many years, when in 1998 they sent their first team to partner with the work in Vietnam. Thirteen years later, Ron [...]
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
We are pleased to announce that Jerry and Karen Markin, the latest volunteers to serve in Vietnam, have arrived! While their home-base is in Lancaster, CA, Jerry and Karen bring years of international education experience, most recently spending 12 years teaching at LCMS’ Hong Kong International School (HKIS). After leaving HKIS in 2008, the Markins [...]
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Saying goodbye to Dieu Luong Commune, the group left early the following morning to Hung Vuong University in Phu Tho town, where LCMS World Mission has continuously been sending volunteer English teachers for the last ten years. This helped the SFS students know more about the second helping hand of LCMS World Mission work in [...]
Monday, May 10, 2010
From May 1st to May 6th, Rose Robinson and Les Syring, two representatives from St. Paul L.C. in Trenton, MI visited Vietnam after several years of supporting personnel of LCMS World Mission in this beautiful country. The purpose of their trip was to experience firsthand the work of LCMS WM in Vietnam in order to [...]
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
I have just completed two weeks of serving as a volunteer in Vietnam. It was such a contrast to the type of work I had been doing in Japan for two and a half years even though they both involved teaching English as a means to build relationships. This experience has helped me gain a [...]
Monday, April 19, 2010
This is a collection of many old but valuable stories written by our National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) partners and friends. CAN TRIP TO VIET NAM 2004 After a successful trip in 2003, this year another youth group from CAN returned to Vietnam to do their special service for 4 days beginning 29th September 2004. The group [...]
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