Outreach State Side Part 3: David's Tent and More

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God gave us the amazing opportunity to do many different kinds of outreaches to bless and share of Jesus's love to others! We participated in David's Tent, www.davidstentdc.org, homeless ministry giving out free bread and coffee at Dupont Circle, participate in a bible study at a nursing home, bless the food truck workers in DC, speak and pray for people at churches and so much more! Here are some pictures of some of the other activities we did! 

Kari praying for a woman as she was getting baptized that day!

 Renca praying for Jesus to heal and smooth the pain of a woman's back! 

Liza worshipping at David's Tent! 

  Pastor Chris Hughes and his wife, Jennifer and their church invited us to share pictures and testimonies at Deaf Calvary Church, in Fredrick MD! The pictures above are from his church and they blessed us with lunch afterwards! They were amazing to fellowship with!

Free Coffee and Bread at Dupont Circle! One night, we met a guy named Anthony!  He had just moved to DC and did not have friends or family support and we were able to talk to him after he watched a drama we did! After about 45 mins of sharing with him, we learned it was his birthday! We all signed and sang happy birthday, Brandon ran to CVS to buy him a present, Renca gave him a book she had and he was so blessed to have people to celebrate his birthday with! 

Finally, this past Sunday, our church, National Community Church, Deaf group, prayed for us and our trip to Israel!  We were blessed to have their prayers and thank you for your prayers as we will be in Israel for the next 32 days!  We leave Nov 8th and arrive home Dec 10th! 

Outreach State Side Part 2: VFCC and NTID

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God is moving among the universities! He is touching young people's hearts and drawing more and more people to himself!  And He asked our group to join him in touching hearts at Valley Forge Christian College (VFCC)  and National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID).  So we took a week and a half long road trip and visited both of these campuses and saw him move in mighty ways!

First, we were warmly welcomed by VFCC!  We spend Open House weekend with the 6 Deaf students who are involved with the Deaf Program at VFCC!  We had an amazing weekend of get to know you games, prayer walks, fellowship and great encouraging conversations spurring one another on in our faith!  We were overwhelmed by the hopsitality provided and were blessed by the love we received!

 To end the weekend, we were able to attend a Deaf church in town, called Deaf Connect Chruch.  Pastor Todd Miller, gave us the whole service to share!  Our students shared about the Father Heart of God, by doing a drama, short teaching, storytelling, worship and testimonies about the Father's Heart for us!  

 After church, we drove to NTID, which is a college for the Deaf on Rochester Institute of Technology campus in Rochester New York. It was a 6 hour drive and we arrived at Victory Baptist Church, who welcomed us to stay for the week!  Our week at NTID is hard to describe with words! The students were so eager to know God more and experience Him in new ways! Similar to Gallaudet University, we did evangelistic outreaches during the afternoons.  At night we did 2 hour workshops including worship, short teaching, practical application of teaching and small groups! It was an amazing week!

Monday: Hearing God's Voice

Tuesday: Worship

Renca taught how English only has one word for worship but Hebrew has over 50! We picked a bunch of Hebrew words for worship and worshipped Jesus!

One of them was Kara, which means to bend the knee, to sink, bow down self and bring down low and is used in Psalm 95:6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the Lord our maker!  

Another one was Guwl, which means to spin around, under the influence of any violent emotion and is used in Psalm 118:24 This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it! 

Wednesday: Gospel and Testimonies

Thursday: Culture of Revival! 

Each of the students picked a culture piece of revival, such as the culture of thanksgiving, speaking life, faith, just Jesus, courageous leadership, joyful repentance and forgiveness and taught on it! 

After the YWAM student taught, each of the NTID students testified which culture piece was one they were going to step into from that day forth! It was a powerful night of hearts being touched and changed by Jesus! It was an honor that He choose to use us! 

Picture at Victory Baptist Church on Sunday morning after an amazing week of revival at NTID!

Exhuasted from the amazing week, the students slept most of the way home to DC! 

Outreach Stateside Part 1: Gallaudet Univeristy

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For a week of outreach we are at Gallaudet University in Washington DC, the only Deaf university in the world.  

The first day we were on campus God placed Matthew 5:13-16 on my heart as the scripture for our team as well as the Christians on campus at Gallaudet.  It is where Jesus calls us the salt and light of the world.  When we arrived I saw Neal and Jennifer, Christians students at Gallaudet University that we met last year during our worship/prayer meetings.  I joined their table and was able to encourage them and share what we were doing this week. I was reminded of the salt and light passage and declared there were the salt and light on campus.  Two mins later, Neal gets my attention and shares that all the tables in the cafe place were dark esp the table that we were sitting at! I had to take a picture of it!  The sun was shining so bright on our table! It was God speaking to his sons and daughter that they are the salt and light on campus! It was so encouraging! 

It was midterm week, so as a group we prayed and asked God how to bless the students and share the love of Jesus with them.  Our group got a bunch of fun destressing activities to do.  So our group is there in the afternoons blessing students with free 10 min massages, a fun photo booth, face painting and fun activities like that to give them an opportunity to destress from the week. In the evenings we are having christian dance parties, short teachings, games and fellowship again to give them the chance to take a break from school.  We have been meeting many students, encouraging the christians and building relationships. It has been so much fun to go as a group.  Here are some pictures from the week!

We ended the week with picking up some students from Gallaudet and worshipping at David's Tent.  It was officially declared a flood in DC on Friday night to end the Gallaudet week but Jesus was still worthy of being worshipped! It was a fun night of dancing, playing the drums and muddy feet!