Grace Deaf Missions Newsletter - July 2011
Greetings friends!
As you can see from this letter, much has happened in recent days with our brother, Robert Morgret. You all should have received a letter in June from David Sitton of To Every Tribe Ministries explaining Robert’s transition. He is now a missionary with Grace Deaf Missions, a new organization we’ve begun as a ministry of our church, Grace Fellowship of Pine Grove Mills.
We are excited about what the Lord is doing! Anytime a new work begins, there are endless details to tend to in order to simply become operational. Over the last two months we have:
1. Consulted with an attorney regarding the legal ramifications of a new missionary outreach.
2. Gotten our banking “ducks in a row” in order to facilitate smooth transactions between us and those of you
who support this work financially. (And on that note, please make your checks payable to Grace Fellowship Church and be sure to write Grace Deaf Missions on the memo line.)
3. Created return receipts, mailing lists, address label templates, and this newsletter in order to keep in contact with you all more consistently.
4. Made lots of phone calls and written bunches of emails to answer your questions about Robert’s transitioning from To Every Tribe Ministries to Grace Deaf Missions.
5. Begun setting up our church website in order to accept funds electronically for Grace Deaf Missions.
6. Begun working with our good friend Alberto Alcantar in Mexico. He is teaching Sharon Mexican Sign Language via Skype five days a week (or as often as possible), one and one-half hours a day. A huge task, and a huge blessing! Sharon will eventually be teaching me LSM.
(So now you really know how to pray!)
7. Attended the annual Deaf Reformed Ministries Conference in Indianapolis which was excellent! (You can learn more about them at www.deafreformed.org)
8. Brought our entire church family on board to be the administrative support team for Grace Deaf Missions. (And started an American Sign Language class at church!)
We’ve been busy! Once we get situated to actually perform the work of running this ministry, then comes the planning of excursions into Mexico, the raising of additional funds to go there, the coordination of the outreach activities, etc., etc., etc. Lots and lots of work yet to do!
So please be patient with us as we slowly move ahead into unfamiliar territory. The Lord’s leading has been quite evident and we are happy to be a part of His plan to take the Gospel to people who have never heard it. But they won’t hear it from us either! By the Lord’s grace, they will see it through our hands and our faces and come to understand the greatness of our Savior as we communicate through Mexican Sign Language the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Grace and peace,
Keith Doster for the Grace Deaf Missions team
