Lend-A-Hand Pt.5

Brenda and Roger were able to go to church with me. Brenda shared greetings from Deaf Life Group in her church to the Deaf in my church.

Both groups are studying the 10 Commandments. How cool is that.

Lend-A-Hand Pt. 4

The doctors saw young and old. This man is 96 years old.

We even came across several deaf. This young lady had never been to school so had no signs to speak of. She didn´t even know her own name. How sad that makes me. Brenda gave her a name sign and taught her.

Lend-A-Hand Pt.3

Brenda and the group of teachers worked with the children. They played games, sang songs, and shared the gospel.

Before the children left for the day, gifts were handed out.

Lend-A-Hand Pt.2

The people sign in by giving their names, then head off to triage where they get their blood pressure taken and find out what symptoms they have. I translated for Roger each day. He said that he enjoyed it because I would also include cultural things he might not have thought about. I was grateful I could help.

April 2009 Lend-A-Hand Pt.1

This month a group called Lend-A-Hand Ministry came to El Salvador. Bobby and Kathryn (bottom photo) are the founders. They worked with Operation Blessing here in El Salvador. What made this team so special to me is that they are from my hometown, Virginia Beach. Even better my two friends Brenda and Roger (top photo) were on the trip. I was able to go with them 3 days to interpret.

Prayers Needed (4)

Grisel and Griselita: Last year Grisel´s husband abandoned her and her daughter. As you can imagine, it has been a very difficult time for them both. Last December she came to my house and I was blessed to be able to lead her to Christ. She is now attending my church and growing spiritually in her relationship with the Lord. However, because it´s a Baptist church and she grew up Catholic she feels she´s betraying Catholicism. I´m trying to teach her that what I´m teaching her is the Bible and about a relationship with Christ not religion. Her family also doesn´t accept her changing churches. Pray for strength and obedience.

Prayers Needed (3)

LESSA Translating Team: This is the translating team. We meet each Saturday from 8am to 12noon to work on translating the American Sign Language Books into Salvadoran Grammar. They have no literature for teaching their language to the hearing (or the deaf for that matter). We are currently on Unit 11 with only one more unit to finish the first book. Five more books in order to finish. We are going line by line changing the grammar from ASL to LESSA. As you can see this is very tedious and time consuming. After we go through line by line we also have to put in on the computer. Please pray for speed in finish this project.

This is Fernando and he´s the newest member to the team. His parents are Alba and Misel. This is Fernando´s first sign: I love you!

Help Needed: Because of the extent of this and other major projects in the ministry I could use some help. I ask for prayer for someone to come and help with "computer work". It could be someone who wants to volunteer a week, several months or longer, to come to El Salvador and minister by putting these books on the computer. The person wouldn´t need to know Spanish or Sign Language, just the ability to type!