Reverend Daniel Quan Nguyen was born, one of five children, on July 15, 1941, in Tay Ninh Province (east of Saigon), South Vietnam. His parents were farmers and his father died when he was just a year old. Reverend Nguyen attended high school and university in Saigon, studying science and law, then becoming a high school math teacher. From 1968 to 1975, he served as an infantry commander in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnamese Army). He was stationed with the Fourth Battalion Regiment of the Seventh Division in the Mekong Delta. In 1971 Reverend Nguyen attended Leadership Corps for Vietnam training in Fort Knox, Kentucky, then married his wife, Suong Nguyen. After the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, Reverend Nguyen was imprisoned in a reeducation camp near the Cambodian border for three years. Reverend Nguyen began pastoring and building Vietnamese Assembly of God underground churches in the Mekong Delta and had nine churches when he left Vietnam in 1995. In 1996 Reverend and Mrs. Nguyen moved to Biloxi, Mississippi, to pastor the Vietnamese Christian Assembly of God church. After the church building was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the church congregation moved north of Biloxi to D’Iberville. Reverend and Mrs. Nguyen have three children.