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Blann's Latest Newsletter May 2008 |
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The
mission trip to Central and South America (March 17—April 15) went really well
and is considered a success! God blessed this whole trip in ways sometimes
unexpected by me. In
Costa Rica, before our 1st Deaf Camp of 2008, my partner, Pablo
Ramirez, and I lead 1 Deaf and 3 Hearing people to the Lord and at Camp we had
8 Deaf and 1 Hearing saved – total saved in Costa Rica was 13! While in Costa
Rica, the first 2 weeks, I had the opportunity to preach to the Deaf in church.
The whole church was also celebrating its seven year anniversary. At Camp, one
Deaf young man broke his knee while on the climbing wall! We moved the last day
of Camp to Pablo’s church, adding a few extra people that could not go to the Camp
during the week. The
Argentina part of the trip was totally different than we expected. First, even
though we had looked at some stats before we went, we were “blown away” by the
sheer size of the country. It is the size of all of Europe or the size of the
United States East of the Mississippi! The biggest shock was learning there is
only ONE Deaf Ministry in the whole country (in a Jehovah’s Witness church)!
We were able to visit 10 churches in the province of Buenos Aries (1 of
the 23 provinces). In each church, we were given the opportunity to share our
burden for Deaf people,
♥ Soon, the second Deaf Camp will take place in Western
NY (June 13-15). This month, Lois Dungan and I will be visiting 4 churches in that
area to try to encourage more Deaf to come to Camp. The third Deaf Camp will be
in Eastern ♥ In August, we will be celebrating 25 years of Deaf Ministry
(Picture
below) at North
Syracuse Baptist Church! Beginning with 1 Deaf person, we now minister to over
30 throughout the year!
♥ On October 31st, we will be participating in the Deaf
Nation Expo at Secaucus, NJ again. Last year we had an opportunity to meet
3000+ Deaf there and you may recall we gave out over 400 Bibles and about 2,000
tracts! Would you like to help us go this year? The cost is around $1,200. We
also need more Bibles and tracts as we used up all the tracts and most of the
Bibles. Travel Experiences · No food on airline & 17
hours traveling to Costa Rica – and I am diabetic. · Traveling to Argentina: nearly arrested for security violations: 1st in Costa Rica airport because If |