Helping Churches Support Their Missionaries Worldwide
Jean Ellis has worked among the Austrian Deaf community for nearly thirty years. Here she explains how such communities work. The Deaf community – is there such a thing? What do you understand when you read these words? My understanding is a group of people who are not able to communicate easily through spoken language, but who do know and understand a signed language, meeting together in one way or another.
Joe Grimwood served as an Envision Internship with GBM in 2018, based some of the year at Mission Centre in Abingdon, and spending significant time on placements in other parts of the world. Having served on the Latvia team in September, from November to February he went to Manila to work alongside Brian and Necy Ellis and Cubao Reformed Baptist Church. Here he reflects on his time working among the urban poor.