Author: Erik Tryggestad

Erik Tryggestad A chance encounter with an American missionary led Ngan Huynh to Christ. Now she serves hundreds of children through an English school in her native Vietnam. A chance encounter resulted in her husband’s death. Four decades later, another chance meeting led to her granddaughter’s rebirth — and a chain reaction that would impact hundreds of lives for the better. Tran Thi Ket lived a simple life along the banks of the Hau River, which flows across the Mekong Delta from Cambodia to the South China Sea. It was 1962, and Can Tho was part of South Vietnam, a…

By Erik Tryggestad/Vienna.  The Lord’s Supper isn’t just a time of remembrance, says Arshia, age 18, as he delivers a communion devotional for the Danube Church of Christ. It’s also an invitation. “True life begins when we let go of our fear, of our past, and then something new comes,” Arisha says in German as missionary Jake Haskew translates his words into English. It’s not easy to forget past mistakes or “thoughts that won’t go away,” says Arisha, an Iranian Christian who made the dangerous journey from his homeland to Vienna two years ago. But when believers take the bread…