4th Annual Mission Madness and the Future of the Blog

 As everyone has by now surmised the team has been back in America safely since July 24th, Praise God, and have as busy as ever. I hope that you were all able to enjoy the pictures that we posted from the trip.
As everyone in the Kansas City Area should know by now, tomorrow, Sunday, August [...]

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Romania 2007: Pictures

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 [...]

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Day 23: Short & Sweet

Thanks for all your prayers! We’ve made it safely to Bucharest! : )
God bless, The Romanian Team – Phil. 4:19

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Day 22: Goodbye Cluj

Praise God for everyone’s prayers last night! God was faithful & powerful to make today’s meeting a huge success. Several people who we did not know were coming showed up for the meeting, including a leader from Oradea.
We focused our meeting on making substantial progress with Bible translation work. The book of Mark & Genesis [...]

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Day 21: God of the Possible

Today we finished our last worship service in Cluj. The focus of today’s message was Jesus as our Friend, with John 11 & the story of Lazarus for the main Biblical text. Tonight we also distributed toiletry supplies, along with hats & gloves. Once again they were elated to receive everything. ToSue Koning, Bonnie Perkins, & [...]

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Day 20: Beautiful Masterpiece

Hope you all are doing well! Today we had the opportunity to do a little sightseeing here in Cluj. We visited the botanical gardens with two woman who attend the deaf church. One of them told us some really exciting news! In December 2006, the university in Cluj officially recognized Romanian sign language as a [...]

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Day 18: Divine intervention

Today has been another amazing day with God at work to control our trip and make sure that everything comes out according to his plans.
Last night was our last worship service in Bucharest. There were some non-Christians there, and our dramas were really effective in conveying the Gospel message. A lot of deaf in Moldova [...]

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Day 17: Great conversations

Hello again everyone! Yesterday was a great Sunday. We had a really good time and were able to have a lot of great fellowship with the deaf in Bucharest.
The deaf church started at 10:00. We showed up at about 9:50 and were the first ones there. We were surprised when by 10:05 there were only [...]

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Mission Blog: Introduction

Transpcript:
Hello, my name is Noah Buchholz. I am the co-executive director of Deaf International. Welcome to our Mission Blog. The last four years that Deaf International’s mission teams have come back from Romania and Moldova, they have wanted to tell people about our projects, what the deaf people there are like, their culture and their [...]

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