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I. History of L.O.V.E. Love Of Vietnam Expressed, Inc. (L.O.V.E.) , is a Christian social service/relief mission. The work began in 1981, serving Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian immigrants arriving into the Pensacola, Florida area. L.O.V.E. (called "S. E. Asian Ministries" at that time) sponsored many families into the Pensacola area, working with many different churches to resettle Southeast Asian refugees. | Da Nang, Vietnam Click on Viet Nam's flag to view a map of Viet Nam
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Mr. Reggie worked with World Relief Commission in the mid-eighties finding sponsors and helping in the resettlement of many families. The goal was always to help families and children. In 1996 he was asked to start an interdenominational church and pastored until he moved to Vietnam in August, 2000. His first trip to Vietnam was in 1998 and he returned again in 1999 providing aid to many. Aid included schooling for a deaf-mute child and help to an orphanage for mentally and emotionally handicapped in Saigon, as well as aid for the leper village, Nui San, in Nha Trang, and many street children and poor in Da Nang. The work in Da Nang included funds for another orphanage, houses for the poor, digging wells, providing heart and other operations, wheel chairs, etc. | ||||
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In 2001, L.O.V.E. was incorporated and found a Vietnamese partner as required by Vietnamese law. L.O.V.E. chose the Street Children Program of Da Nang (SCP) as its partner because of the sincere love its members have for the poor, and its experience - they have worked with street children since 1991. They operate five children’s homes (called "families"). Each cares for thirty children. Here they have a "mother", a "father", and two cooks. They are loved, trained, clothed, fed, have a bed, go to school, and have help with homework. SCP has its own vocational center with three locations, night school, and other programs. |
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This was L.O.V.E.’s first full year working in Vietnam. We provided scholarships for 90 children, sponsored two medical teams and provided other medical and financial assistance...a small but needed beginning. | ||||
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From 2002 to 2008, with the prayers and financial assistance of many of you, L.O.V.E. was able to help more and more children and poor families. It was in this period that our first student house was started. In 2008 we had 9 student houses, providing free housing and spiritual oversight to 60 university students from rural areas around Da Nang, Quang Nam and other providences. This grew to 12 houses in 2009. By 2008, seventy-five children were being sponsored, in addition to our scholarship and food programs, keeping L.O.V.E. busy with translating letters between sponsors and children in addition to our scholarship, medical/emergency, feeding, and student housing programs. To date, sponsors have built or renovated more than 15 homes. | ||||
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Year 2008-09 began the 10th & 11th years of work among the most needy children in the Da Nang, and Quang Nam areas of Vietnam. L.O.V.E. has Mr. Reggie and his wife, Tran Thi Bao Chi, a Vietnamese Christian national, and 2 other full time employees, both Vietnamese Christians, in the city of Da Nang working among youth and children, the poor, the sick, the handicapped, and those with no one, living on the streets. | ||||
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Year 2010 began the 12th year of work. By this time we had over 300 children, families, and students under our sponsorship/scholarship programs, and have several university student houses, while maintaining our dental and medical programs. Our staff consists of volunteers and paid Vietnamese nationals. | ||||
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II. Summary of activities | ||||
Student Homes: L.O.V.E. provides homes for poor Christian students who come to Da Nang from families in the countryside. Here the students get free or reduced housing, Christian fellowship, and learn and grow in a Christian family setting and receive training by local churches to serve God. These houses are also open to non-Christians. Our sponsored students are both Christian and non-Christian. As God leads, we hope to open more houses in the future. |
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Sponsorships: With your suggestion and encouragement, L.O.V.E. began this program in 2007 where you can now sponsor a child, communicate with the child and family monthly if you want, and follow the growth and progress of the child. We now have three levels of the programs to serve a child, a university student, or a family. | ||||
Scholarships: This is the oldest of our programs. L.O.V.E. began this program in 2000, which provides a scholarship large enough to enable a child to stay in school. If you provide a scholarship, you can communicate with the child and family when the scholarship begins. You will receive a letter and progress report at the end of the school year. | ||||
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Medical: Our goal is to provide four dental and two medical missions each year. The past three years, we have been unable to bring in a medical team. We have done 1-2 dental missions with local dentists, but getting financing has been difficult. In late 2010, we had a team come from England who teamed up with our local dentists. | ||||
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We expect to add even more children in the next year. | ||||
We hope to host 2-3 mission teams to come each year. | ||||
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We serve families in Thang Binh, Dai Loc, Thanh Quyt, and Hoi An areas of Quang Nam Providence and all Districts of Da Nang. | ||||
Click here to meet the L.O.V.E. Team. | ||||
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LOVE's doctrine encompasses the whole Word of God. We believe in the verbal inspiration of the Bible, both the Old and New Testaments; that God is revealed in three persons: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; that man in his natural state is a sinner, lost, undone, without hope, and without God; that Jesus is God come in the flesh and that He is both divine and human. We believe in the saving power of the Blood of Jesus and His imputed righteousness, in the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ and in the bodily return of Jesus to this earth to rapture his Church and judge the world. We believe the Holy Spirit to be the Third Person of the Trinity whose purpose in the redemption of man is to convict men of sin, regenerate the repentant believer, guide the believer into all truth, indwell and give gifts to believers as He wills that they may minister as Christ would to men. We believe that the manifestations of the Holy Spirit recorded in I Corinthians 12:8-11 shall operate in present-day churches, where faith permits, who in humility depend on and yield to the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe in Divine Healing and the Priesthood of Believers. Our Calling: 1 John 3:16-18 (NKJV): By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. | ||||
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