NHIEM THAI TRAN (Doctor of the Church – D.Min. at ATS), is a leading pastor of Vietnamese Evangelical Church of North Carolina in Raleigh, NC. He is a member of District Executive Committee (DEXCOM) under the South Atlantic District of The C&MA and he is also a visiting professor at West African Theological Training Center in Monrovia, at Emmaus Biblical Seminary in Haiti, and at Vietnamese Bible Institute in Vietnam.