Helping Churches Support Their Missionaries Worldwide
Insights into interpretation Preparing and delivering sermons is hard work for any preacher, yet the difficulties are multiplied for Deaf Christians. Monica Hobel, who is Deaf, and her friend and retired GBM missionary Jean Ellis, share their insights into the
Jean Ellis looks back on the way the Lord led her to serve in Austria. GBM’s support for Jean ceased as she reached 70, though she continues to serve the Lord in Austria as a ‘pensioner’!
Can the death of a baby really be part of God’s plan?
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.