Bible Class

As in any culture, there is a problem here with Gossip. So we combined the Married Couples class as well as the Bible Class to teach on this subject. We taught using various skits showing how you can be bound into the slavery of sin (gossip being one of the things that tangles us), but how we can be set free from it as well. We also taught how to confront those who are in sin. Everyone enjoyed it, now we're praying that they begin to apply it to their lives.

TBLESSA TEAM

Here the TBLESSA team is trying to establish the spreadsheet for the Organization of our team, developing who will be in charge of what area, who will be a part of that area, etc.

Thanks Howard for showing us how to do this.

Visit from Howard

Since we are no longer meeting in my house we are setting up a new location in Iglesia Bautista Miramonte. Here, we are fixing the backdrop to begin video taping as well as taking more pictures for the Sign Language Book.

We had a gentleman, Howard, who is currently working in Colombia with their Sign Language Team. He came and gave a wonderful workshop on Organization of the team.

We've already begun putting the information we learned into practice. We also took him to the School for the Deaf here in San Salvador, he thoroughly enjoyed it.

He also did a lot of observing while he was here and gave us some useful tips that we can incorporate in our work. We're praying that he'll be able to come back and work with us again some day.

New Arrivals

Look what's come to El Salvador, Walmart and Sears! The prices aren't the same, but they do have more things for me to choose from. :-D

Wycliffe Bible Translators Video of TBLESSA

Last year Wycliffe Bible Translators came and visited TBLESSA and took videos of our work. The have posted it on their web page. Check it out, it turned out wonderfully. You can get a sense of the need for this project.

http://www.wycliffe.org/deaf.aspx

New Apt.

This is the view from my balcony fo the San Salvador Volcano


This is the beautiful flowers that I get to look at as I walk with Canela in my apartment complex.








This is Canela with her new haircut!

The pool, which I haven't even used yet. I've been tempted, but haven't had the time. First unpack and get organized, caught up on work, then I'll enjoy it.

My bedroom

Exercise room

Office

Living Room

Dining room

Kitchen






It wasn't easy finding a place, packing, having a garage sale and moving all within 2 weeks, but God gave me two wonderful ladies that came to help me out. I couldn't have done it without them.

Passed the baton

We celebrated birthdays; Claudia and Christian both had birthdays this past week (they're holding the cake).

Please pray for the translition from working in my house to working in the church. As always there will be glitches, but pray that we'll all be flexible in the new atmosphere.

The other changes that I made since I came back from vacation is that I've turned over the responsibility of leadership to the Deaf. It's exciting because one of my goals here was to train the Deaf to be leaders. So Grisel and José Eduardo are the leaders of TBLESSA and Edwin and Adela are the leaders of the Bible class. This will be a huge transition for them as they learn to take over as leader instead of just as helpers. But I have confidence in them that they'll do a wonderful job. I will still work along side of them to help in any way. But little by little I want them to completely take over.

Prayer request:

1. Flexibility in the transition from my house to the church.

2. For the new leaders: Grisel, José Eduardo, Edwin and Adela.

3. For the new interpreters that have joined the team and the other who's considering joining.