Guest Speakers Urge Deaf to Action

We had guest speaker Eugene Gehm come down for a couple of Sundays to speak to the deaf congregation, encouraging the deaf to be witnesses for Jesus. Eugene and his wife Linda(also deaf) stay in contact with the deaf in Ensenada and are true encouragers!

If you’re interested in seeing his messages (in Mexican Sign Language) you can at HERE

 Kelly Lynch, our guest speaker at the women's deaf retreat taught something similar; reflect Jesus and you affect people- God seems to be saying it's their turn, now, to rise up - And they do!

Rita blows me away with her understanding of God's character.  You might remember the last news was them being persecuted by other deaf.  Rita said that through it all she trusted Jesus to defend her and her husband, and He did! Officials fined the accusers for bringing up the unsubstantiated accusations! 

The deaf retreat went GREAT and we had a few wii sport injuries, but mostly just a whole bunch of fun and spiritual growth.

Rosalba garcia has parents who are deaf, so she signs fluidly and just got her professional certification in mexican sign.  She is an advocate for the deaf working with the municipal government and a believer - and very young - pray for this bundle of energy and her future! 

Margarita - the deaf lady that suffered a stroke- is recovering and still suffers from side paralysis. She gets around with help, but holds tight to Jesus.

The game is on!

It's official!

me and Kelly

We are going to have a deaf women's retreat in October 22-24 . . .

YAY!

And our guest speaker (per request of the deaf ladies themselves) Kelly Lynch~(who also happens to be a personal favorite of mine)

YAY!

And we have just booked the beach house from Lantern Hill ministries . . .

YAY!

And now for the rest of the work.  Could use your prayers and if you have any suggestions, or would like to volunteer to help . . . that would be AWESOME!

In Heaven...

Last week in the deaf women's bible study Antonia shared with us about her experience. She said "I dreamed that it was shaking and in the clouds I saw a big bright light coming down someone was there, and he was Jesus. I could not see well but I saw his light shining and he had his arms outstretched towards me, and he said he would take me with him to Heaven. Then an angel without wings came and stood besides me, encouraging me to go. And I was really happy because I would be in Heaven with Jesus'!
We rejoiced at hearing this because- despite that she can not read or write and has a limited vocabulary - she understands the Word of God because He expresses Himself to her! It is wonderful to see how God communicates through dreams, especially with deaf!

GOD'S UNCONDITIONAL LOVE FOR US!

In the women's bible we spoke of being beautiful in Christ's eyes and in attendance for the first time was Francis Lizbeth (for those who know her) she is not lovely by the world's standard and she was moved to tears.

She's been on a long path of doubts, confusions and sorrows. Her battle, lately, has been wanting to have a baby - without being married. Her desire is to be unconditionally loved and have constant companionship. God brought her at just the right time, and we spoke to her of HIS unconditional love and companionship!

Pray that she has clearly understood.

In spite of me.

As I write this I'm sniffling and sneezing.  My eyes itch, my nose is running, my skin is crawling, my head feels painful and heavy - and I'm running a low grade fever. A bad case of allergies.

I certainly didn't want to go and lead our deaf women's bible study.  I wanted to stay in bed.  But Rita (deaf) and I have been meeting for about 5 or 6 months now and just recently we've been joined by one more deaf woman - Maragrita.  So I prep lightly and head out, praying that God use me- in spite of myself.

Wouldn't you know we had two new ladies show up!

And it was tricky - out of the 4 deaf ladies there only one can read a bit.  Two have had no schooling whatsoever so even their sign language vocabulary is limited.  The third had been taught a type of pidgin american sign language and only knew a limited amount of mexican sign language.

As you can imagine the lesson went slowly - and I had a couple of times where I would go into defining an idea (like - who was moses, what is a Pharisee) and lose my train of thought- COMPLETELY! So again, I just pray that God was able to use me - in spite of myself.

Funny side note: I was sneezing before we started, and as soon as we closed in prayer I started sneezing agin.  But all during the lesson I didn't have to use a kleenex, not once.

I hope the ladies were blessed and went away with something and I pray they did.

It's in God's hand now.  I'm just thankful I didn't give in to what I wanted but went anyway.

How about praying for these ladies that attended today?  Thanks.

A baby boy born.

OK - I'm cheating since I didn't think to pull out my camera the last two times Rita came by with her new baby boy (Born August 6) - but little Nelson looks very much like his sister pictured here.

And Rita looks just as happy!

She went to church on Sunday (amazingly, and against all the cultural norms here! A mere 4 days after her boys birth) and then she came over afterwards and I had the honor of teaching her how to nurse her baby.

This is her third baby and she formula feed her others. She said that she tried to ask the nurse in the hospital for help but they couldn't do it. They tried, apparently, and failed. But, really, they were quick learners and the baby latched on with just a few adjustments.