 | Our Family Worship had a great event in one of the young children becoming baptized! Ted and Denise Pulfer completed the adoption of there newest family member and his name is Aaron! Aaron was welcomed into God’s family on June 9 through Baptism! Aaron is adopted twice! Ted and Denise adopted Aaron to be joined with their physical family. They brought Aaron to be joined with (adopted into) God’s family—his spiritual rebirth! Many of our families are learning about Baptism and we pray we will soon have 3 more Baptisms (and prayerfully more)! Please join us in praying for these families and children as we share with them His Great News. Also as we share the joys and promises God gives us through Baptism. If you see in the picture—we use a coffin??! This is a great picture as Paul says we are buried with Christ and raised to new life. No, we do not use the coffin for the Baptism (but I think would be a great picture) because I am afraid it would upset parents. But we show how we want to make death “nice” and we do not like to think about death. But because we are Born again — Born from Above, we do not need to be afraid of death. Death is not beautiful When Jesus died it was ugly. But because He died, our sins are buried with Him, we have new life, and the promise of life forever! Please join us in praying for Aaron, his brother Ben, plus Ted and Denise. Please pray for all the other children and their families that God will guide them to be joined with His family through Baptism. Thank you for your support for our work together in His Kingdom. We want to see ALL people joined with His family and have His promise of Life Eternal! |
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 Jesus Signs Workshops are designed to train and equip others to share Jesus with deaf people and their families.
We will provide you with: · Opportunities to learn/improve religious sign skills. · Immersion into deaf culture. · Opportunities to learn about deaf ministry. · Resources for deaf training. There will be four classes: · Beginner signers · Intermediate signers · Advanced signers; and · Deaf Costs: · Registration $25.00 · CEU’s $30.00 · Lodging is on your own. Options will be provided when you register. · Transportation is on your own. We will accept walk-ins for the weekend; but we ask that you register so that we can plan for materials and food. Lunch and dinner will be provided on Saturday. Please bring a snack to share during break times. The harvest is ripe and the workers are few. More information can be found at: If you have any questions about giving donations to World Lutheran Deaf Outreach; please contact us.
Send your donation to Lutheran Deaf Outreach PO Box 1795 Janesville, WI 53547 Online Giving Can be done at www.LutheranDeafOutreach.org to our PayPal account. Amazon Smile AmazonSmile is a website operated by Amazon with the same products, prices, and shopping features as Amazon.com. The difference is that when you shop on AmazonSmile, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible products to the charitable organization of your choice. Please contact us for more information if you would like to use this service. Thrivent Choice The Thrivent Choice® program is a charitable grant program that allows members to recommend where Thrivent Financial distributes a portion of its charitable grant funds each year. It is a joint program of Thrivent and its member chapters. Eligible benefit members can help direct Thrivent Choice Dollars to thousands of nonprofit organizations, including congregations Are you interested in hosting a Jesus Signs Workshop? We have available dates for 2016. Please contact Rev. Dr. John Reinke (RevReinke@gmail.com or 608-436-9600 voice/text)
Jesus Signs Workshops are designed to train and equip others to share Jesus with deaf people and their families. It is estimated that 90% of Deaf children are born to hearing parents. These parents may be faithful Christians; but, do not know how to share their faith with their Deaf child. We want to equip these parents and their congregations to share Jesus with their Deaf child using Luther’s Small Catechism for the Deaf and other resources. Deaf people are scattered and live in every area of the country, in every city, and near congregations of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod. We want to train members of our local congregations to reach out to the Deaf in their area with the Gospel. Did you know that it is estimated that 98% of Deaf people do not know who Jesus is. It is our mission to teach others how to bring a deaf person to see Jesus. The harvest is ripe and the workers are few. Pray for the Lord of the harvest to send more workers. Please pray for God to guide people who want to share in His mission to join with us.  Let me introduce you to Duane. Duane has been a member of the Jehovah Witnesses. Recently he was baptized at one of our deaf congregations. Our deaf people witnessed to him and his family, teaching them using the Deaf Catechism.
THANKFUL!!!
Webster’s Dictionary tells us that this word means conscious of a benefit received. This ministry IS truly thankful for each and every one of you and the prayers you’ve given on our behalf and also the monetary gifts you have given and sent! With this newsletter it is a good time to let you know how we are doing financially. Following is a brief view of the last 12 months. The amount needed to cover ‘just the basics’ of this ministry comes to a little over $14,000 EACH month. This includes salary for our 2 dedicated Pastors, the Federal and State taxes needed for payroll, Concordia Plans (insurance/retirement), as well as Workman’s Comp insurance. The average received per month over the past 12 months comes to about 66% of what is needed for ‘just the basics.’ We are so thankful that the South Wisconsin District - The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has given Deaf Ministry a monthly grant that covers the Concordia Insurance Plans for both of our Pastors. The mission gifts you prayerfully put in your weekly offering envelopes has allowed for this gift of help from our District. I wish the report was better, however this is what the figures add up to be. We depend on your gifts given prayerfully and thoughtfully. Statistics show that between 95-98% of all Deaf people do NOT know Jesus as their Savior. This is not acceptable. We must get this important message out. Please help us continue this vital specialized ministry. We want all people to know true thankfulness: Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever. Psalm 118:1 Linda Ault WLDO Secretary/Financial Officer  What is TEA Time?
TEA Time is our plan for reading through the Bible in two years. We began on January 1, 2016 and will finish on December 31, 2017. We are using our guide to read two to three chapters daily Monday—Saturday (Mon to Sat). Why “TEA” Time? TEA is a double meaning. First, tea time is connected with relaxing, reading, meditating, talking – quiet time. We want this to be a time to relax with God in His Word. Second we are using TEA as a way to guide our reading. Each week we are looking for the T.E.A.: Theme Encouragement Application The Theme helps us to see what connects the readings for the week. The Encouragement helps us to focus on what God is doing in the lives of His people. Application helps us to see how these verses apply to our lives. Video - VLOGS Each week we will also put videos on our website www.LutheranDeafOutreach.org and on our YouTube channel TEAtimeASL Sunday afternoons we will share what to look for in the readings this week. Monday thru Saturday we will be adding a daily verse done in n ASL. Our Sunday worship sermons for the next two years will also follow the readings for that week. We will also put the TEA (Theme Encouragement Application) summary for the week online. We pray God will bless your time in His Word!  How are we going to train more workers? How can we equip more people to join in the outreach to Deaf people and their families? We are expanding out training of people with a heart for Deaf Outreach.
We will be leading a Jesus Signs Workshop June 4-7, 2015 at Concordia Lutheran Church in Kirkwood, Missouri. We are joining with people in the St. Louis area to in reaching out to equip people to share Jesus with Deaf people. It is estimated that 90% of Deaf children are born to hearing parents. These parents may be faithful Christians; but, do not know how to share their faith with their Deaf child. We want to equip these parents and their congregations to share Jesus with their Deaf child using Luther’s Small Catechism for the Deaf and other resources. Deaf people are scattered and live in every area of the country, in every city, and near congregations of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod. We want to train members of our local congregations to reach out to the Deaf in their area with the Gospel. This is just one of the Jesus Signs Workshops to be held around the country as we continue to reach out and train workers in Deaf Outreach. WHY? Because 98% of Deaf people do not attend any church. We do not want them to go to hell. The harvest is ripe and the workers are few, pray for the Lord of the harvest to send more workers. Please pray for God to guide people who want to share in His mission to join with us. If you are interested, or know of someone who might be interested, please sign up and we will send you more information as it become available – send email to LutheranDeafOutreach@gmail.com and check out the web page at www.LutheranDeafOutreach.org.
ABCD – A Bible Curriculum Deaf is growing! This week another Pastor shared with me he is using the ABCD materials to teach and train Deaf people in his area. Thank you!! Your support is helping us continue to adapt and prepare these resources. We know of more than 25 groups using these materials each week. As we reach out nationally and Internationally we pray God will use this materials to reach 100’s? 1000’s? 10,000’s? More!! Please Lord help your people!! |
