Pastor Reinke, ​Deaconess Becky, and Vicar John Szupica all arrived safely back at their homes late on Thursday, 11 January.  Thank God for their safe return and for an abundant and fruitful mission trip to Ghana.  
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Be sure to look at the updated "Ghana Trip Jan 2024" button at the Top Right of this page.  

An early today text from Rev Reinke says, "Dropping off Liberians to airport. Then on to see the Bishop."  

Deaconess Becky said yesterday: 
We need your prayers for our safe trip and join our families back home! Thank you for your prayers!

PLEASE KEEP ALL THREE OF THEM IN YOUR PRAYERS FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS.   AMEN

Deaconess Becky
The last two weeks were awesome! I give thanks to God for everything to work it out. Today was a sad day to see some of them leave for home. I’m going to miss them! We continue to teach some more Bible stories this morning and answer any final questions that they have for us. Afternoon was cleaning it up and prepare for tomorrow departure. Tonight, we saw a black scorpion and a huge snail! I haven’t seen scorpion in my life, but it was fun to watch it. We need your prayers for our safe trip and join our families back home! Thank you for your prayers!

Vicar John Szupica
Today is last day missionary, I miss those people and I very enjoy with them teach and followship God always with us, they want us to come back again. Hope they will study and teach and help each other without us they are improvement their homework I want to thank God doing all the work and help us the plan missionary and God always good to us. So now we ready to pack all thing to box and tomorrow ready to go at airport.

Vicar John Szupica
This morning we feel tired, but we still keep run teach them about Deaf worship every step and weather hot 90 then later got rain few hours also the power off few times no power can’t use technology for tv to teach them about bible we take break and the build inside dark no light so beck get her hair fix and she look younger. Then power back then I teach 2 guys how to computer about google classroom that Pastor Reink make them to learn about bible mean like have video, picture, read and some test it was cool for people want to learn about God word anyone can use it. God still with us because he love us.
 
Deaconess Becky
Wow! Only a few days we’ll be home with our families. This morning we had one large group and review the worship. It was interesting to see their signs are different between Ghanaians and Liberians.
We had rain again this afternoon. This affected our electricity went off. So a few Ghanaians did my hair with an extension for about 2 hours! Ouch! This is my second time that they did my hair. They love my hair!
I give thank to God for our time together and continue learning about Him. Continue to pray for more deaf people would get to know and believe in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:17 “Never stop praying.”
 
Rev John Reinke
I LOVE OUR DEAF PEOPLE!!! 
I thank God for His working to guide them in growing in Faith and becoming equipped to teach more Deaf.  Thank you for your prayers and especially your financial support!  We could not do this without God guiding you to help us😊  www.DeafOutreach.org for updates and more info!

Rev Dr Reinke
 9 days of all day training (today meetings too) finished, 2 more to go – pleasantly exhausted😊 Thank you for your prayers and your support!  Please continue!!
 
Deaconess Becky
 I give thank to God for 4 Baptisms today! We had a deaf worship and then fellowship with other deaf people. Rest of today we spent time with chatting with others and enjoying the day together. Please continue to pray for the Lord to give us the strength and good health for the last few days before we fly home.
 
Vicar John Szupica
 We have Sunday deaf worship also have 3 children and one adult Baptisms today I am so excited to see have someone Baptisms. After church we have lunch and deaf followship enjoy and fun and took a lot of crazy idea with take picture with people act like movie start lol. So, afternoon we take rest or and take nap for an hour we are so tired teach all week, so tomorrow we still have bible class for an other two more day and ready to fly back home.  

All of the photos from our Ghana Deaf Mission Team 2024 trip are collected in our Google Photos.    Use the Red button at the Top-Right of this page.

Deaconess Becky
Today was a great day! Deaf Ghanaians and the Liberians are continue learning more about the Bible. Only 4 more days until we leave from the airport in Accra!
John S and I led our morning training on using the liturgy. We explained some terminology such as what creed mean and some other words to prepare for tomorrow deaf worship. Afternoon beginners’ group we continue to use the 1000 Questions and expanded the stories on from God chooses Abram to Jacob has a dream at Bethel. They love to discuss and find the right answers.
It was great seeing Rev Palmer on the video this afternoon. I give thanks to God for the technology continue to work today. Please continue to pray for all the deaf Ghanaians and Liberians for their faith to mature.
 
Vicar John
In morning we teach them about deaf worship and tach all the list and what it mean how this work for them to understand also we teach Ezekiel 33:11 talk about (God does not desire (wish) the death of anyone, not even the wrong) they start to think, so afternoon our group start to work on 1000 question they work on there teach each other mean without help but we do teach but we watch they help each other like brother and sister in Christ but my heart love to watch it make me feel smile Jesus is there for us I know I can feel.

Vicar John Szupica
Today is good day enjoy teach deaf people about Law and Gospel try to make them more understand so after lunch our group show up on time but the class is sunny and hot day, Becky and I teach more deeper about Law and Gospel after that one of our group leader teach them and use tv with laptop we watch they teach and they doing very well, I knew God is with us amen.

Deaconess Becky
I give thanks to God for the technology that we can show visual pictures on their TVs! Deaf Ghanaians and the Liberians loves it! We had great discussion about the Law and Gospel. We had a couple verses that almost everyone wrote it down and start practicing to memorize verses. Then beginner group worked on the 1000 Questions and one challenge was that they wanted to know what name of the angels was placed at the Garden of Eden. They had to help each other and searched the answer for it! It was great to see them work and help each other as a team. Continue praying for their faith to grow. God is good! 

Deaconess Becky
 Today was a good day. We finally had the rain in the late afternoon! It was really pouring hard! Unfortunately, this affected the electricity to go out for a couple of hours. It was very hard to see each other signing. So this ended for our day training. We had our morning entire group and talked about H.A.T. Heart is what excite or motivate you, Abilities are what you can do and Time is do you have time for various things in church/ministry? We had an interesting discussion about one person asked if a Pastor sin? We studied about Genesis 19 – The Lord Destroys Sodom and Gomorrah and then we split groups to practice and act out the story. It was great to see them do this and understand the story. In the afternoon, John S and I continue with our beginner group before the rain pour. I give thanks to God for our team continue to work together for the glory of God and help deaf people to understand His truth.
 
VICAR JOHN SZUPICA
After breakfast I talk with those deaf people and update what they have any idea they had then have class talk about (HAT) H-heat/excite/happy, A-ability/can do, T-time.
 
After lunch, our group went to class with us, and we let our leader start instruct their group, so we watch and went very well without us teaching bible. Then have bad storm on way hard rain and the no power so, we ask the group if they want drama play from bible like Adam & Eve, Cain & Abel, Noah, Abram, Lot, and Tower of Babel so they do their own drama without us help and they will have drama tomorrow so people will watch them.
 
Rev Dr Reinke
 Thank you for praying for us as we introduce the new platform for our materials on www.DeafOutreach.org
 
I am hoping many of you know about our Deaf Outreach training materials called ABCD’s – A Bible Curriculum Deaf.  We are expanding our materials and the team is working hard to have them online in the new format.  Then we will continue to add and expand!!
 
If you would like to test out the new format and give us feedback sign in at www.DeafOutreach.org click on ABCD, click on Belonging, sign in, test the materials, and give us feedback. 

Ghana Update for January 2, 2024

Deaconess Becky 
Another great day of teaching and studied the Bible! Morning Bible study, we had everyone together and discussed Barnabas, Paul and Timothy. Also what it means to have the body of Christ in Ephesians 4. Then John S and I took the beginner group to another room and we studied Noah and the Ark, Abraham and Sarah, Cain and Abel, and Genesis 1:1-3 connected to 1 John 1:1-3. Finally, we got the TVs for their Bible studies and Sundays worship. That was a great news! Praying for their technology to work on their TVs. I give thanks to God for the great Bible studies today! Even thou the weather was very hot and humid here but all went well.

Vicar John Szupica
Pastor Reinke teach about Barnabas, Paul, and Timothy, and then he want those people to write down to make each person that work act like Barnaba, Paul and Timothy what they had doing and write down all the name that people name of list then make a group have them talk about each list people after that have lunch take break 2 hr. then start to make 2 different class so me and Becky start teach about Noah of Ark also about Abraham in deeper mean and those deaf people love it us the way teach in deeper so then after supper the man bring 2 new tv and set up then after have problem with WIFI seem not working so we feel down anyway tomorrow morning we will pray to see if WIFI work back.

Ghana Update for January 3, 2024

VICAR JOHN SZUPICA
Today was very productive day. The best part was teaching Jesus Book (Bible) all day and answering a gazillion questions on Bible topics.
The biggest challenge we have right now is spiritual warfare! But one of the challenges that continues - other Christians in their teaching have added things to the Bible stories. So, the deaf people think this is what the Bible says and they continue to add things to the stories. Again, and again we ask “Where is that in the Bible?” We want our deaf to research, find answers, and see what God's Word really says.
It is a great joy when we see our deaf searching the Bible and wanting to understand. Wanting to do the best they can to share with other people. I am very impressed with the deaf leaders and their commitment to learning and understanding by its Word.
They are very excited about the new curriculum, and I think it will be an awesome resource for our deaf people both in America and internationally. I thank God for all the people who are helping to develop this material: from deaf people developing and editing the materials, for our tech people putting these materials online and making everything work, and for the MANY people testing and evaluating these resources!
THANK YOU, JESUS!! I thank God for all of you!!

Deaconess Becky
Finally got Tv to hook up with my laptop to show how the class start with like color picture and every step easy for us to use then write broad. Our group keep asking if we can go back to our class in the morning, I told will have the afternoon, so all our group people show up on time than yesterday. So today look same as yesterday. Food taste good but yesterday food so good not like United States the way is. Today my mood was good I very satisfied, weather is better than yesterday to hot cannot walk long outside cause sun are different then United States.

Rev. John Reinke
I give thanks to God for another new and successful day! Today was a very good day for both groups. We finally show the classroom curriculum on TVs. That was our goal for today. Both Ghanaians and the Liberians loves the visual pictures! It does really help them! The hot and humid weather does not stop us! John S and I continue to teach our beginner group with the curriculum on TV. Then we had them to practice and act it out the Biblical stories which was great! They continue to ask many questions.
​Hard to believe that tomorrow will be one week that we have been here! Time fly.
Please continue to pray for the Lord to keep us in good health and give us strength to continue doing deaf ministry work.