Maria ????

We have just met a little old lady named maria (???) . She is in her 80's and lives alone after brother in law died and has no family willing to take care of her. She lives day by day for food, water, and bills to be paid. She doesn't know sign language but does uses mime a lot to help her communicate. This is such a sad story that it breaks your heart. Pray for her as we try to witness to her of Gods love for her.

We have completed two years here in Mexico now. Things have its up and downs like anything in life. We are happy to say we have seen souls saved, a building we are renting for the church, and life slowly being changed and that is the most important thing. We are trying to disciple them and see them grow in the Lord. however this is the battle. Pray that God will work in their heart for spiritual growth instead of staying spiritual babies. We are asking people to pray for us (1 Thess 5:25) and if you are interested post a comment, email or fb us and we will add you. thanks for stopping by and reading this.

Sorry so long since our last update, since then So much has happened. Crystal had a wreck. Went to renew our visa and still on hold for a more permant visa. Adoption agency direction changed agencies and new one decided not to work with us. Ministry is growing, we had 21 with a visitor and some of our members we not able to come. Pray for souls to be saved and that we can see more deaf changed for Christ. We are looking into ways to reach more deaf children.

As for the adoption we have changed agency which has set us back. Please pray that we can get this moving fast with the new agency however that means money. Pray god will move and provided the money for us to adopt. We have seen people willing to help us by donating part or all the proceeds from a fundraiser plus we will be doing a sale to help finance bringing home our angel. If you feel moved by God to help in anyway please email us for detail on how to do so.

update and adoption.

I cant believe its been so long since i have updated our blog. We have some deaf move away and some new ones coming. We officially moved the church into its own building and we continue to see growth spiritually among the deaf. We are still working on the papers for the visas because we need to be registered with the government first and waiting for that to happen. We have also started our homestudy for adopting a child. Please pray with us during this time as we try to adopt. We have a couple options open to us. One would to be foreign (haiti) adoption which we have prayed about before during the earthquake a few years back. Second would be to adopt through the foster care, however this brings up many questions and concerns with us being missionaries and living out of the country. The third would be a birthmother in the states threw one of the churches finding us and placing the child with us after the birth. The first and third would be ideal so please pray that God will open up the right door at this time. If you would like more information on how to pray or help on either the visa situation or the adoption please email dyc4deafofmex@aol.com or call us via the number on our website at www.deafofmex.com. We have been teaching 2 deaf children sign language on a weekly basis and also weekly at the bible institute here in Mante. We have a student that is in the bible institute working with us this sememster to train him to work in deaf ministry after he graduates in december.

The church has been running from 15 to 20 these last few months. We have seen 4 professions of faith and now renting a building for the church. We will be having our first service there sunday March 6 as a dedication service. Please pray for this as we still have a lot to do to get ready for. We went to Cd. Victoria yesterday to find out the paperwork was wrong, we are correcting this and are hopfully able to return on monday and have all the paperwork correct and to send them on to mexico city to finanalize them. Pray for us during this time. Also we have found out that mexico has passed a law that will not let us go straight to dif (social service) and adopt that way and let us nationalize the child as a citizen of the US so we are back to square one on this. Our options are either go through an agency (which are all waiting for approval from Mexico because of new law) or adopt from somewhere else which means US homestudy. Please pray for wisdom on this as we seek the lords leading, and timing.

4 months

We have been here about 4 months now. The church is running around 11 with highs of 14. We have seen decisions made for salvation and for returning back to God. Please pray for these wonderful Souls. The name of the church is Iglesia Bautista Nueva Vida Para Sordos. There is a website link from our website www.deafofmex.com please feel free to look at both. Also there has been some songs done in lsm on the website and more will come not only from us but from the deaf in the church. David has started teaching mexican sign language at a bible college here in Mante. There are 23 students at this moment as some will change and may get new students. Please pray that they will use this language to minister and see precious deaf souls saved.

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1.02.28

Made it threw first check point with bed. Paid the fees and now to the second. Pray for us.