OUR FOUNDER
“If my family could go to America, one day, I will return to help my people.”
A little five-year-old Tina mumbled those words innocently when she was denied access to her classroom because her mother was unable to afford the school tuition.
Poverty has deep roots; knowledge is life; and wisdom is the beginning of higher living.
In the late 80's, by a miraculous turn of fate, my family was sponsored to live in America, the land of freedom, opportunity and equality. Life as an Asian-American was confronted with insurmountable struggles and racial barriers. The fight to succeed began and the American dream became a great obsession among the refugees.
While conforming to the crowd and chasing after prestige at Syracuse University, I experienced a supernatural life changing transformation that radically altered the trajectory of my eternity. The Word, sharper than any two-edged sword, was introduced to me. Its divine revelation captured my restless soul and crowned me with a peace that surpasses all understanding. I encountered the truth; faith found and restored me. My predestined existence became meaningful as unspeakable joy directed my daily steps. Every human being is fearfully and wonderfully made for a purpose, and it is her glory to seek it out.
In a twist of irony, the prophesy from my youth duly came to pass in my adulthood. In the year 2010, compelled by love and fueled with an unquenchable desire to share my personal testimony of power and grace, accompanied with great miracles, I responded to the grand commission to go into Asia. Without reservation, I embraced the challenges of my expedition, served alongside the nationals, befriended the persecutors, shared life with the poor and never did I neglect my priority to deliver the good news of hope to the forgotten.
It is my passion to “become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some.”
The land flowing with milk and honey taught me pride and comfort, poverty taught me humility and suffering; and faith brought about my absolute dependency on the sovereignty of the yet unknown and unseen. Beyond this world lies a heaven that is worthy of pursuing and investing all that I am so others may see what it could be, if only they, too, willingly take that small leap of trust.
The commitment to serve my people in Asia remains fervent in my heart and as solid as it was revealed to me when I was just a little girl. Obediently I shall continue to heed the call and do the will of Him who gave His all for me. I am my Father’s precious child and the daughter of my beloved mother who was a beautiful resilient Vietnamese refugee in America.
Expect a harvest for every season. Labor so that when the field turns golden, the worker is found weeping with gladness and ready to reap. It is written, “the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.”
