{"id":326,"date":"2010-08-29T11:42:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T18:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesusinvietnam.com\/?page_id=326"},"modified":"2014-06-16T01:37:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T08:37:45","slug":"contact-us-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jesusinvietnam.com\/?page_id=326","title":{"rendered":"Contact Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesus in Vietnam Ministries\"\"<\/a><\/h3>\n

Dennis and Mai Spencer<\/p>\n

P.O. Box 54<\/p>\n

Cortaro, Arizona 85652-0054<\/p>\n

Email: jesusinvietnam@gmail.com<\/p>\n

About the Spencer’s<\/p>\n

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Dennis and Mai in Saigon, Vietnam.<\/p><\/div><\/h3>\n

The title of a recent book by Ravi Zaccharias captures the essence of Dennis and Mai Spencer\u2019s life: The Grand Weaver \u2013 How God Shapes us Through the Events of Our Lives.<\/em> God has shaped their lives through a series of events that would bury most people in despair and hopelessness.\u00a0 They lost three of their four children – a son to suicide, the loss of a twin daughter born prematurely and of an older daughter to cancer.\u00a0 They also suffered business and financial reverses.\u00a0 But through it all their dependence on God and their love for one another has grown.\u00a0 Out of it all has come a remarkable story of triumph over the trials and tests of life.<\/p>\n

To follow the trail we have to go back to a troubled time \u2013 the late sixties and the Vietnam War.\u00a0 Dennis was stationed with the US forces when he met Mai.\u00a0 They fell in love and were married.\u00a0 With his tour of duty over, Dennis left Vietnam in 1971 and Mai followed soon after.\u00a0 Mai wondered if they\u2019d ever see her family again and hoped they could eventually bring them to the United States.<\/p>\n

As the years rolled by it became apparent that this would not happen.\u00a0 However travel restrictions to Vietnam were relaxed in 1988 making it possible for Mai to return to Vietnam for a visit.\u00a0 It had been 17 years since she had seen her family!\u00a0 Mai was shocked by the poverty and despair of the people.\u00a0 She determined she would do what she could to help her family, building a house for her mother and helping a destitute sister.<\/p>\n

A friend shared Christ with Mai in 1978 and gave her a Vietnamese New Testament.\u00a0 Although she did not understand much that she read, she began to pray to God when she had a problem.\u00a0 He often seemed to answer her prayer.\u00a0 As God began to make known to Dennis and Mai His love for them in the heartaches of life, Mai gave this same New Testament to a friend who planned to visit Vietnam in 1993, to give to her family.\u00a0 As the New Testament made the rounds of her family 35 became Christians in two years!\u00a0 God was working in Mai\u2019s heart and through the Word He now was working in her families\u2019 hearts.<\/p>\n

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