July, 2007 Report

Allow us to share our joys, concerns, and blesses that have been happening since the Lord blessed us.  With little seed money we received from Youth Service Fund in America in America to conduct and establish outreach gospel mission early this year, the project has been a milestone for Deaf youth in Kenya as well as is significant and an exciting period for the whole Deaf community.  At the beginning of the project the group was provided peewee room within the church premise by the Rev Mulongo for project implementation.  We purchased all office equipment such as a computer, printer, digital camera, and stationery.  We also further purchased at least 139 T-shirts and published with the name of our project as you can see on some of the photos.

The two weeks basic Bible training was very overwhelmed but equally successful because during the first two days, over 45 deaf youth turned out.  We had to limit the classes to 25 participants.

Topics covered during basic Bible training are as follows:

How to interpret the Bible in Kenyan Sign Language conducted by Rev. Joseph
Giving sermon procedures.
Qualities of good youth leaders.
Consideration when conducting outreach programmes.
Topic:  The Gospel is the centre of Christ
 

Thereafter, we conducted gospel outreach to different parts of the deaf communities. They are as follows:
 

Kambui deaf community
Machakos school for the Deaf
Oserian Deaf community
Kiserian Deaf community and school
Ikinu church of the Deaf

So far, a total of 1,090 deaf youths have been reached since the project was established.  In all locations, the Youths were well received and they were asked to revisit them.  We did not successful manage to give all deaf t-shirts as they requested and hope to publish more in the future.  Deaf Youth has been since the inception of this project been front key player in this first every significant project.

During the three months of outreach services we witnessed that Youth were able to deliver the word of God to their deaf colleagues themselves hence proved that they have received spiritual strength to perform this errand.  Immanuel church of the Deaf has also included youth services in their Sunday programme in which sometimes youth are invited to preach to large group of deaf congregations.  The project touched the heart of many deaf people in Kenya and so far 840 deaf faiths have been served and reached.