Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Look what the Lord has done!
Six deaf individuals gave their testimonies at National Deaf Conference SignSpiration in Dallas TX. Thank you Margo Jarreau for the pictures and summery of that wonderful Friday night service.

Sarah Chung
She had struggle about bible and frustration with her parents who had no communication with her and pills to stop her seizure for years. She was surprised to see Jan Epitacio being changed as new man. He and his wife invited her to church. She never heard about UPC even though she knew Jesus. She accepted baptism in the name of Jesus. They told her about Jesus who could heal her from pills. She prayed for her healing when she thanked Him. Bro. Noland called her to altar where she got Holy Ghost at Western District Conference. She went to her doctor about the pills. He told her that she did not need pills. She was fully healed. Her night was quiet without pills. She thanked Jan,his wife, Bro. Noland and his wife for leading her to His truth. She said God was good all the time!

Angie Galleagos
She and her fiance went to UPC. God touched her. The altar worker asked her if she wanted baptism in the name of Jesus. She said yes. Her fiance looked at her with smile while she was in baptistery. He was not baptized yet. She and he struggled when he was not close to Him. She broke up with him so she went very close to Him. She has beautiful experience in Holy Ghost. She showed them how she knelt and screamed loudly “Jesus Amen!” He quickly came to her help.


padjet@att.net
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11/23/08
Praise the Lord everyone! This evening we baptized Joe Lane! He is an 18-year old deaf senior that goes to school with Sheila Maynard. We have prayed for a long time that he would come to church. Sheila has invited him several times over the years and finally he came about a couple months ago. He is so hungry for the Lord! We have been having a special Bible study with him and another deaf friend, Chris Mohney over the last few weeks and will continue to do so.

Joe decided to get baptized tonight and we are rejoicing with him! Up until this evening, he didn't feel comfortable going to the altar, let alone raising his hands or praying out loud. From the beginning of service, there was such mighty move of the Holy Spirit. Our signing choir did "Holy Ghost Power" and my oh my....... Throughout our Praise and Worship, Joe was jumping and praising out loud! At altar call, he stepped forward, raised his hands and prayed. Thank you Jesus! He was baptized shortly after that. He told us later that when he came out of the water, he saw a bright light! You should have seen the smile that lit up his face and stayed with him for the rest of the night! Keep him in prayer that God will fill him with the Holy Spirit and use him in His kingdom. Chris has also said he would like to be baptized but hasn't yet so please keep him in your prayers as well. We are having Deaf Revival in Portage, Michigan! YAY! Hallelujah! Kim Parks

12/1/08
Hi all and Praise the Lord! Thank you everyone who kept Chris in prayer after my last praise report! Chris was baptized in that precious name of Jesus yesterday morning! That is two young deaf men added to our fold within one week! Hallelujah! Chris brought a deaf friend from school with him, Jack...so now, please keep HIM in prayer. It was his first ever Pentecostal service and I know he was touched. I always get so tickled when our deaf visitors, especially first-time ones, sign along with the interpreter during praise & worship. Jack is very interested in coming on a regular basis but the problem is, he lives so far away! So pray that the Lord will open up doors to get Jack to church. He needs the Lord. Chris also brought his parents and his grandparents to witness his baptism. Please continue to keep Chris and his family in prayer.

An update on Joe, the one that was just baptized a week ago, he is a different person. The love of God is all over him and he is on fire! He has a younger deaf cousin that he is now trying to get to church. He talked to his aunt about getting his cousin to church and she seems open to the idea, so we'll see. This little guy's name is Dylan. He has a serious medical issue. Now, I know that the Lord can provide a miracle and heal this precious little boy (he's 8 and has the most beautiful blue eyes I have ever seen). Even if Dylan never comes, please keep him in prayer. God is doing wonderful things here in Portage, Michigan! God bless you all! I will try and get a picture up on deafevangelism.com soon!

Kim Parks
Left to Right...Joe Lane, Chris Mohney, Ian and Jack Brandt. Joe and Chris are the two on the left who were recently baptized, both deaf. Ian, is a hearing friend at church that was also recently baptized. He is interested in being involved in Deaf Ministry and trying to learn sign. The one on the right is Jack, he is deaf, and Chris and Joe are witnessing to him.

Back in February of 2007 I had cleaned up my book shelf and some of the books that needed to discard. A book entitled "My Father's Blessing" caught my attention and I begun to read it. That had impacted me greatly because it is about the outpouring of the Holy Spirit which I had never heard before. That had made me so hungry and thirsty for God. I actually studied it for about a month.

Then I decided to start looking on the web for any Deaf people who have the Holy Ghost in the Atlanta GA area where I live. But I couldn't find any. The majority of deaf people in Georgia is Southern Baptists which I was raised.

I decided to search on a national level in hoping to find one. There I found a web page called Deaf Evangelism. I decided to send my email to Sherry Padgett. She had responded to my email by witnessing to me about the gospel in which I had never heard before. That had led me to search more for the truth while I was still hungry and thirsty for God. Sherry had connected me to two interpreters in GA at Atlanta West Pentecostal Church, Pam Nixon and Margie.

I went there on Easter Sunday for the first time. The first thing I asked my interpreters was about any Deaf people who have the Holy Ghost attending this church. They said no So I continued visiting that church for a while because I was responsible as a Deaf Ministry leader in my Baptist church. I prayed for the Holy Ghost on July 08, 2007 and felt the Holy Ghost for the FIRST TIME. I didn't yet know how to give myself to worship.
On July 15, 2007 I finally, I decided to go ahead to be baptized in Jesus Name at Atlanta West Pentecostal Church.

Sherry had shared with me about attending National Deaf Conference in Texas that took place in July. I had been wanting to go there since I had a desire to meet Deaf Pentecostals. So I went there with Pam Nixon from the church and it was our first time attending a National Deaf Conference.

While attending the conference, I had struggled to understand clearly about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Two men came to my rescue and told me to close my eyes and pray to receive the Holy Ghost. Finally, I got it - speaking in the tongues without interruption meaning that it came into my heart right there.  Praise the Lord! I finally got the Holy Ghost with speaking in tongues. Suddenly, I jump joyfully after that.  That took place on Friday, July 27th, 2007.

Deaf Ministry - Tampa, FL ( Calvary Tabernalce - Pastor Wolfe)

GOD is doing some WONDERFUL things with the Deaf Ministry here in Tampa FL. On July 16, 2008, I started teaching Sign me the Truth Bible Study on Wednesday nights with Michael Johnson (a Deaf man...who has since moved to Jacksonville, FL). On August 13th, my dear friend Darlene Clark who also is Deaf, joined the Bible Study. On Friday night (Aug. 22nd) our church was hosting the Section 5 Back to School Rally. I invited 2 Deaf young ladies (Mercedes Paremore and Tiera Stilling) to the service and one of those ladies (Tiera) invited a friend of hers Princess. It was a power packed Holy Ghost service and during altar call 2 of the 3 young ladies received the Baptism of the Holy Ghost (Mercedes Paremore and Princess Williams). Mercedes (Deaf )...who at this time had known for about 6 months to 1 year from the silent dinner at the mall )...and Tiera Stillings (Deaf)...whom I meet on Aug. 12th, 2008. A friend of mine told me that a family had moved into their neighborhood who had a deaf daughter. So, I knocked on the door introduced myself to her parents then invited Tiera to the Wednesday night Bible Study. Tiera agreed to start on Aug. 20th, 2008. Tiera invited one of her friends Princess Williams ( hard-of-hearing...whom I met for the very first time on Aug. 22nd). During the Christmas holiday, Princess saw and invited one of her old friends Tielania Walker (hard-of-hearing) to the Bible Study which started attending the Bible Study on Jan. 7th, 2009. On Feb. 6th - 8th, all of us along with another interpreter attended the Annual Deaf Revival/Annual Interpreter's Workshop held in Palm Bay, FL at the First Pentecostal Church (Pastor David Myers). The entire weekend was full with a Awesome presents of the Lord followed by inspiring testimonies. To my surprise the highlight of the weekend was yet to come. On Sunday morning, Bro. Meloy Richmond...from Greenville MS. was scheduled to preach. The altar was open for anyone that needed a healing touch from the Lord or for any other situation that needed to be given by God. The Holy Ghost fell so strong and everyone was worshiping and praising God, during this AWESOME move of the Holy Ghost Tiera received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. So that brings the count up to 3 of the ladies that has received the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
***************TO GOD BE THE GLORY. ********************* God Bless, Beverly


April 6th, 2009

Hi, Here is a picture of my friend Denise Clark just after she was baptised this morning. She is a deaf lady who has been coming to our church with her friend Bev who is also deaf. It was so exciting to see her being baptised. Bev and I are praying that this is the break through we have been praying for years for in the deaf community.Bev has been serving the Lord for several years now and in our area has been the only one all this time. Please help us pray for a revival in the deaf community.

God bless you,
Dorothy

Tim Dorland
He went to different church like Baptist, Mormon, and Christian but he was not satisfied with church bored him. He often missed church. He saw a prison was next to UPC he drove by. He liked the design about UPC but he did not think about visiting church. His friend invited him to UPC where Sherry Padgett was a member. He was surprised to see members being beautiful without make up. He wanted more part of the church. He smoked cigarette for 15 years. On his birthday of Feb. 6, he was very sick with flu. He wanted to smoke on last cigarette but he spoke to God, I would quit smoking so You made me strong. He stopped smoking for good as cold turkey. Later few days, he got baptism in the name of Jesus. He has struggle with Holy Ghost because of his problem with his pride at his job that prevented him from getting Holy Ghost. He got rid of his pride so he got Holy Ghost. He found the truth in his truth so he faithfully goes to church to serve Him.


padjet@att.net
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11/24/08
OOoooooo God is MOVing!!!! I am so excited I can hardly type... I am asking for prayer for three things... I have my first Bible study tomorrow with a Deaf man named Andre who visited our church yesterday. He is Sooooo hungry for the Lord. I gave him one of the Acts 2:38 salvation dvd's, and when i picked him up for church he was filled with questions. We also had a young man named Darrion he is 16 receive the Holy Ghost yesterday!!!!! Praise the Lord!!!!! Lastly but surely not least.. I am asking that you would agree that God would break some things here in the Deaf community in Virginia. There is such a strong hold of homosexuality in the community here. God is still able!!!!! THANKS so much for your prayer as i go for my goal of getting Virginia on the MAP!!!!! =) Please keep us in prayer...

Tyrell Manning
Apostolic Church Norfolk, VA

11/25/08
I had a Bible study today with Andre(Deaf) who visited our church on sunday and he responded instantly to the Word. He was baptized in tonights service.... GIVE GOD THE GLORY!!!!!!!! god is moving Church!!!!!

Tyrell Manning
Apostolic Church Norfolk, VA


EGW Report from DE 3/15/08
Praise the Lord! I just wanted to let you know we have started to show the Deaf in Delaware and New Jersey the new Exploring God’s Word Bible study that Bro. Murillo is teaching and the Deaf here are just overwhelmed!

They are so excited – with just one lesson!! Sis. Killingsworth in New Jersey said she had to continue to show the next lesson because her group was so interested.

Thank you so much for making this resource available. There will be a great harvest won to the Lord because of it, and His Word being taught in such an awesome manner!!

Thank you Bro. & Sis Murillo for your dedication and sacrifices to this ministry!!

Dover, Delaware –
Lori Sabean


11/22/08
Originally we were only doing Deaf Church once a month. About 2 months ago I felt lead to start having it weekly and so we have – Sunday mornings from 10:00-11:00 AM. It was taking us so long to go through the Bible study so I knew this would be a great help in that regard.

Susan was baptized on November 2 – it just so happened our next lesson was on the Holy Ghost (Lesson 8). I just battled last Sunday morning (November 16) with different things I felt in my Spirit – trying to get things ready for church, I had been up since about 3:30 AM – tired physically, etc. I just had that feeling something good was going to happen and the battle was on. Our church has started a new program called “Defining Moment”. We are spiritually moving to a new level (powerful services lately), and there has been a whole new freedom in the Spirit, so the devil is not happy.

Altar service came and Susan again went to the altar, but there was a whole new freedom in her worship which has been building for weeks. As she started to worship you could just see the Holy Ghost all over her face and within minutes was marvelously filled with the Holy Ghost. Her face lit up like a Christmas tree! She just started jumping up and down like a little kid who had been given the best gift for Christmas. Her coming to the Lord has been such a blessing to Kathy Meyers who has been coming for about 15 years with no other deaf people. We are now watching Kathy help to establish Susan, and what a joy it has been to see what the Lord is doing.

We will be finished with the series of Exploring God’s Word on December 14th, and then Susan will be moving into a course we offer new converts called Abundant Life. It truly will be an amazing 2009 to see what doors the Lord will open for Susan, and the Deaf Ministry here in Dover.

Thanks again to you (Bro. Hanscom, Bro. & Sis. Murillo, Sherry, Pat) for your prayers and the work you are doing. Another soul has been won to kingdom for such a time as this!

Lori Sabean
Outreaching Hands Deaf Ministry Dover, DE