The Romania Team
Left to Right: Matt Keller (Deaf Missions), Stacie Filley, Beti Keller (Deaf Missions), Jacob Buchholz, Maleah Eubanks (Not Pictured: Pastor Noah)
The Deaf Club in Bucharest, Romania
See the Day 14 post for the stories.
At the Deaf Club
Angela (right), a Romanian Sign Language interpreter, talking with a deaf man. Angela has always been a tremendous help for us with interpreting English/Romanian/Romanian Sign Language, guiding us through the cities in Romania, and so much more.
At the Deaf Club
Jacob Buchholz talking with a deaf man.
Jacob
Jacob sharing a story about a martyr.
Matt
Matt (Deaf Missions) drawing the parable of the four soils. Praise the Lord for his remarkable talent of drawing. He can really bring God’s Word alive to the Deaf, which is especially important because most of the Deaf can’t read or write becasue of the improper education they recieve.
Pastor Noah
Pastor Noah preaching… something about being scared by a bear?
The Team on the Train
Left to Right: Beti Keller (Deaf Missions), Matt Keller (Deaf Missions), Maleah Eubanks, Stacie Filley, Jacob Buchholz (Not Pictured: Once again, Pastor Noah (one of the disadvatages of being the photographer))
Ploesti Deaf Singing
Avramescu (the man who wants to be a pastor, but is struggling with reading the Bible in Romanian) is the one on the left.
See the Day 16 post for the stories about the worship service in Polesti and Day 22 post for a story about Avramescu.
The Deaf Congregation in Polesti
See the Day 16 post
Avramescu
See Day 22 for his story. By the way, he is trying on hats and gloves that were knitted by First Baptist Church of Olathe members… thank you so much!
The Deaf Congregation in Bucharest
That is… Romania!
…in green pastures
Community Worship Service in Cluj
Members of the deaf church in Cluj singing praises. See the Day 19-21 posts for the stories.
Pastor Torok Ioan
A deaf pastor at the deaf church in Cluj happily showing a hat for one of his daughters. More than one hundred hats were generously knitted by First Baptist Church of Olathe members and gloves were also donated by them.
See the Day 22 post for a story about Pastor Torok.
Hats and Gloves
Two kids trying on hats and gloves that were donated by First Baptist Church of Olathe.
See Day 21 post.
Marcela and Oana
Marcela (Deaf) and Oana (Romanian Sign Language interpreter) were such a huge help with traveling around the City of Cluj and interpreting.
Selfless Love
This picture reflects the common behavior of Romanian hosts when Americans stay at their homes. They spend quality time cooking delicous food for Americans, keeping a small amount of food for themselves. That night Jacob and I had one of the most amazing soups, green pepper (with meat inside) and sour cream, while Pastor Laszlo, our host, and Avramescu treat themselves to only breads, butter, sausages, and tomatoes.
Bible Translation Meeting
Pastor Noah led a successful Romanian Sign Language Bible Translation meeting. He is hoping to return to Romania again before offically starting the Bible translation procedures in Romania.
See the Day 22 post for more information.
Bible Translation Meeting Attendance
Even though all of the Romanian leaders were not able to attend the meeting, their ideas and discussions helped the Romanian Sign Language Bible Translation team to succeed in their essential first step.
See the Day 22 post for more information.
Team Devotion
We had a team devotion every morning and a team meeting every night. We took turns leading the devotions everyday.
PRAISE GOD. WE PRAY THAT YOU WILL SOON GET THEM THIER OWN ROMANIAN SIGN LANGUAGE BIBLE VERY SOON. I PRAY THAT GOD WILL WAIT UNTIL ALL SIGN LANGUAGES ARE TRANSLATED INTO THE BIBLE SO THE DEAF CAN FINALLY UNDERSTAND IT ALL ABOUT JESUS’ LOVE.