New Spaces

Friday afternoons will be divided between the Sign Language Project and the Bible Translation. here Eleana (interpreter) is helping the team with some of the difficult concepts in the Genesis story we're working on for translation. Saturday morning will be divided between the Sign Language Project and Bible Translation, but the afternoon is solely dedicated to Bible Translation. Sabrina (in the pink) is observing to see if she'd like to join the TBLESSA team or the Bible class on Sundays. She's a new interpreter. We were offered this space for Saturday morning and afteroon, however, there's been a scheduling problem and we can only use this area in the morning. In the afternoon there is another class here.

Until then we will be using the office space for our meetings. After 2 months the other class will be finished and we'll be able to go back to the other area. Either way we're grateful for the church offering us the space.

We have three new interpreters that have joined the TBLESSA team; Eleana who will work on Friday afternoons, Walter and Erika who will work on Saturday afternoons. This is an answer to my prayers because it was a lot of responsibility for me being the only hearing (who's Spanish is limited) to have others to join in this ministry.

March 2011

There have been some changes with TBLESSA. We are no longer meeting in my house, but the church has offered us some places where we can meet and work. This will be a process in getting established but it's going to be better for the team as well as for myself. One area is the Library of the church. There are three cubicles and we share one with others in the church. So I bring my laptop and set up at the desk to work. The other area is the long tables we have on Friday mornings. Three team members work on Friday mornings (Edwin, Adela and I) and Grisel joins us in the afternoon. We devote the morning to work on the Sign Language project.

February

We finally finished a huge project. The Teachers Sign Language Book, the Student Workbook and DVD set is also finished.

I made copies of the DVD's, 75 in all.

Edwin put the labels on and Adela put the student workbooks together.

Praise the Lord this project is finished, now to continue onto more books that need to be completed.

Training for TBLESSA

Last weekend our team was involved in a Evangelism Workshop and it´s main focus was for the Deaf (love it), not hearing folks. They received the training and the broke up into pairs to practice.

Medical Team

This is one of my favorite teams that come to El Salvador. Unfortunately I could only work with them one day. Next year I plan to clear my schedule so I can go with them each day. It´s incredible what they do and the amount of people they see each day.







While the doctors are with the adults, the other group takes the children for singing, dancing and piñatas. Over 500 people accepted Christ in the 4 days they were in the small towns of El Salvador.





This is my friend Beth from the team. She stayed with me one year and I really enjoyed it. I wish I could host someone again, but not being able to drive at night makes it impossible. I did enjoy her the year I could do it.

Wycliffe Bible Translators

Wycliffe Bible Translators had a meeting in El Salvador and so TBLESSA was asked to do the devotion and present our project. I´m so proud of the group, they did a wonderful job. I on the other hand, was having trouble interpreting into English, my own language. It was the simple words that tripped me up, like the book of Mark. Four different languages in my old brain is just too much. Overall I think it went well.

Sunday School

Praise the Lord, Edwin is back teaching Sunday school. He has made a decision to serve the Lord and I truly see a heart change. Grisel is happy for the help. Now they each teach two Sunday´s a month, although there´s a lot of team teaching going on as well.





Working with the Deaf you need to include pictures, dramas and explanations and Grisel and Edwin are doing an excellent job.









With the Deaf teaching Deaf, the clase is growing. Most of the time we are borrowing chairs from the other classrooms to seat them all. God is doing amazing work.








This past Sunday a new Deaf (black shirt) arrived to the class and after "seeing" God´s Word accepted Christ. The other, Violeta in the plaid shirt re-committed her life to God.