july Update

We have been back in Honduras for over a month and lots have happened.

We had started going to homes of deaf children who have never attended school and teaching them sign language. But after returning from the states, word had gotten out to other parents and now our children have tripled. We are hiring about a half dozen “instructors” who have gone thru a week of training with us this week. Now they will be able to lighten our load and allow us to locate other deaf children.

We have also started teaching sign language to deaf adults who have no language at all. One of the photos included in this update is of Emilee. She has a 10 year old son who told us here name, but doesn’t know how old she is, neither does she. We have found many deaf adults in the same situation.

Our Bible School has as few as 14 and as many as 31 deaf attending. We have had two students from Lee University with us (one is Kim, our daughter). They, along with Brandon, have been a great help with teaching the children and in the Bible school.

Reverend Paul Dyar, Pastor from Maryville, TN has been with us for a week and spoke at the Bible School Monday and 3 deaf were saved. He has also been helping teach new deaf students. He will be preaching in a local Church of God here in San Pedro Sula Sunday night. We will have interpreters for Spanish and for the deaf.

If you can get your hands on the new issue of the World Missions magazine (SOW), the cover story is about the deaf ministry in Honduras.

We signed the rental contract for a Deaf Center this week and the National Overseer of Honduras, Dr. Collins wrote out the check, and we are so excited. It is better than we would have ever been able to dream of. It is a 3,000+ sq ft house in the richest section of the city. The owner is renting to us for 5 years at 1/4 the price that it would rent for normally. It is behind the major hospital in town and is on the major bus route. It has the perfect kitchen to teach cooking classes and there is an office to make into a hearing aid lab or whatever. So now we will need kitchen supplies, desks, tables and all.
Get your groups together and come on down and we will put you to work.

The Deaf Center will house the vocational training program, adult literacy program, deaf youth leadership program, early intervention for deaf infants and children, parents with deaf children program, sign language classes, the Bible School, teacher training, hearing evaluation and hearing aid distribution, leadership training, discipleship programs, and home group Bible study. The Deaf Center will also be a place where the deaf can come and fellowship in a safe, Christian atmosphere.



Your support and prayers are needed in order to make the Deaf Center a success. Please consider sending some extra support this month to help with the start up costs for tables, desks, chairs and other needed items..
Thank you for your continued prayers and support.

Please e mail us with your comments so we know you are still out there. God Bless.

Curt, Cheryl & Brandon Humphries.