Greetings! The workshop in Belém, Brazil went very well. There were about 100 participants. Some of them are from other cities in Brazil. After they learned symbols in SUN, hearing participants are motivated to teach deaf people who are excluded from society and most of Deaf in Brazil aren’t educated. It’s essential for deaf people in Brazil to know Jesus Christ in their hearts. There were about 25 deaf participants and we really are glad for them to learn about symbols so they can understand God’s Word. It’s much easier for them to learn symbols rather than the words.

There are many deaf living in Belém. They have a church for deaf to attend. The leaders there did a great job to prepare a large workshop.

They started with worship and devotion at the beginning of workshop every day. Then we trained them with symbols. It’s a lot of work because there were about 100 participants. We normally have up to 50 participants in other events.

After we trained them, they did small groups so they can train others. They also learned to do sentences with symbols and created new cards for other symbols.

We did an interview with local news. It was great because hearing people in Brazil needs to be educated about deaf people because Deaf are often largely ignored in society. It was also my first time together with my new wife on mission. She loved it!

Prayer requests for Brazil team…

• More Deaf people in Brazil know about Jesus Christ,

• Our participants need to train others in different cities in Brazil,

• Wisdom, guidance, and plans for leaders in Brazil.

May God bless them abundantly!

Greetings! I’m exciting to tell you that I will have a mission in Belém, Brazil with my new wife, Adriana. It will start on September 19th. This is for Symbolic Universal Notation (SUN) workshop for a week. SUN (Symbolic Universal Notation) is a program that brings Scripture to the deaf who is unable to read and limited knowledge of sign language as well as the deaf-blind. Using a symbolic system of writing, the illiterate deaf who may not educated in sign language as well as the deaf-blind can read God’s word for themselves. It would take years and years for illiterate Deaf to learn alphabet and words. With these symbols, they can learn much more quicker. In a week, they can learn over 150 symbols! In this event, it will be over 130 participants in Belém.

Prayer requests

• Already 2 leaders for this event are unable to go due to injury and family issue. Pray for us that there won’t be any more issue that comes up before/during this workshop.
• Wisdom and guidance to train a large number of participants.
• Help deaf participants to understand God’s Word by learning symbols.
• Opportunity to share God’s Word through SUN program in Brazil. There are currently about 10 million deaf people living in Brazil, only 10% have been in the scholar system.

Thank you for your continuing support and prayers!

Blessings!