Benin Sustainable Development Plan that hosts two different sessions each week on Wednesday and Saturdays at Vedoko Deaf Church in Cotonou. Thirty-four people are attending, including twelve new students of SUN.
Grace Ballo, the team leader, reports, the review of the thirteen lessons is underway, and the team is super motivated. Participants are really enthusiastic, seeing the program as a personally and spiritually enriching opportunity.
It was a miracle and a revival in the church because most of them participated in the SUN program and understood the Scriptures through SUN. We bless the Lord for the SUN program initiated by Wycliffe Associates.
I just wanted to express my joy and happiness in participating in this course. It was much better than I imagined. I had learned to talk about Jesus to people who would not be reached in any other way because they were often excluded from society. I felt honored and privileged to have this opportunity to learn with you this new language and my greatest desire to be useful in the Kingdom of God. Glory to God for your lives and for this wonderful work.
Pasteur Rafael shared that they moved their classes to the evenings. Each of the attendees has a day job, and then attend SUN classes in the evenings until 9 pm. We are thankful for their sacrifice, so they can teach others through this program.
Ramde Fadirou, a new convert, shared that he was touched after reading Ephesians 1:4 in SUN, (In Him God chose us before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him). This was new information for him.
Cibitoke, Burundi training ended last December, since then fifteen SUN facilitators organized local trainings in four different municipalities reaching 123 new Deaf students with the program.
The SUN leader reports, After learning SUN, the beneficiaries have just set up a followship program in their area on Fridays of every week to learn a lot about the word of God, popularize it, and improve their knowledge about the SUN program. eleven Deaf people who were pagans and did not belong to any religious denomination became Christians; 100% of the beneficiaries do not know how to read the written Bible, they did not know the divine word but for the moment they have a notion of the word of God.
The SUN program is a nice and simple program, very important and clear. . .I have been able to understand clearly who God is and who God’s Son is through this SUN program.
My name is Marie. I am student of Ephaphata school. I have many non-literatefriends. We do not know how to help them. Prior to SUN workshop here in Kalemie, Ihad never heard about the program before. Attending it and seeing how it is easy tolearn by watching pictures, I remembered those friends and pleased that in the endthey got salvation. I hope to teach them. Thank SUN team for coming, thanksponsors for remembering us, above all thank God for everything.
Former participants of one event from Cote d’Ivoire continue to read the book of Mark with the SUN symbols in their homes.
The facilitators assist them and bring them together in groups of two, three, four etc... according to their respective localities.
Other facilitators find classrooms on holidays to bring together some former deaf-mutes to review the symbols.
"We are thinking of printing other books of the New Testament to make them available so that they can continue to read the Bible with the symbols."
"Learning SUN is incredibly important as it increases one's ability to communicate and improves one's understanding of their own language and invites us into a new world and strengthens our careers. As for me, it has opened me as a leader of deaf community in Shinyanga Region into groups of illiterate deaf and deafblind who I didn’t pay attention before. SUN as easiest system of communication to learn will help them considerably, so have to put our effort to train this group."
I was an idolater who did not believe in the gospel before coming to this workshop. I was a follower who followed the religion of my fathers. I was born deaf and mute and never went to school. Today I am 70 years old. My life took a new turn because I gave my life to Jesus and learned to read the Gospel of Mark. To God be the glory.
"We are blessed to be assigned the task of spreading the Gospel of Christ to the unreached Deaf."
"I am very grateful that SUN came... I spent the next three weeks of my remaining leave … studying hard with my facilitators. During this period, I made great progress not because I can now read and write thanks to SUN, but it raised my status from a simple SUN student and illiterate to that of an expert in SUN symbols which are easier to learn and understand."
Two members from Wycliffe Ethiopia traveled to one particular region and met local government leaders. They made the necessary connections in order to hold a SUN workshop there at the end of October.
They were also able to meet with underground Christians and share SUN with them as well. The program was received with much joy.
The work of SUN is making a significant impact on the lives of the Deaf, and we praise the Lord for this opportunity. - Paul Nanyeni, National Director of Nambian National Association of the Deaf
Nigeria Sustainable Development Plan in seven locations including Deaf churches and classrooms. The Deaf churches are growing in number.
The SUN leader reports, The churches initially have quite a number of members. But the far distance of the church from the homes of the members discourages people from attending church services. However, through the help and Grace of God and SUN, the church has been experiencing growth to the Glory of God Almighty. This is because the members are enthusiastic towards knowing more about SUN, being a new style of language to them. We thank God for everything.
"Learning SUN is incredibly important as it increases one's ability to communicate and improves one's understanding of their own language and invites us into a new world and strengthens our careers. As for me, it has opened me as a leader of deaf community in Shinyanga Region into groups of illiterate deaf and deafblind who I didn’t pay attention before. SUN as easiest system of communication to learn will help them considerably, so have to put our effort to train this group."
A ll the participants have been very surprised by the ease of the SUN method to learn signs, the testimony that each one gave after the event was very stimulating since the participants have been taking Peruvian sign language classes every Monday, and they have realized that with this SUN method learning is much easier. They were also moved by the testimonies of each of the deaf trainers, who despite their disability status are still standing giving testimony of their lives and that as deaf people they have come forward and travel everywhere teaching this SUN method and in that way, they are proclaiming the gospel.
"There may be many people who live in the world questioned themselves how the illiterate Deaf group can be reached by the Gospel in way they can understand better, no worries because we see that God has opened the way through SUN, God loves everyone without leaving anyone behind. God be praised forever."
"I am very grateful that SUN came... I spent the next three weeks of my remaining leave … studying hard with my facilitators. During this period, I made great progress not because I can now read and write thanks to SUN, but it raised my status from a simple SUN student and illiterate to that of an expert in SUN symbols which are easier to learn and understand."
Good morning to all of you, thank you for this training SUN, God bless you for SUN. Rafael and Hamade from Burkina Faso come here Senegal to teach us. We learn and understand, thank you. Since Monday we start SUN training, we learn through writing, now we understand clearly, we are happy. From Monday to Friday we study symbols, word and their meanings, all the participants learn, it is clear now to read SUN. We say thank you. American people made SUN, and God send it to us to learn Bible reading, we understand now. Thank you, we are very happy.
Pastor Paul traveled to Mattru village in the southern part of Sierra Leone to teach SUN for two days. He told us that the new students were so willing to learn and asked him to continue teaching them.
He reported, I was really surprised. I believe if I continue there, it will be wonderful and will make it easier for them to learn and understand the Gospel. Pastor Paul celebrated their learning on Christmas Day by giving gifts of treats and awarding certificates to the eager students.
SSNDCY is so much happy and appreciating GOD above, plus SUN which has changed Deaf lives and getting more interested in SUN programs through spreading the word of GOD.
"Learning SUN is incredibly important as it increases one's ability to communicate and improves one's understanding of their own language and invites us into a new world and strengthens our careers. As for me, it has opened me as a leader of deaf community in Shinyanga Region into groups of illiterate deaf and deafblind who I didn’t pay attention before. SUN as easiest system of communication to learn will help them considerably, so have to put our effort to train this group."
The training changed my way of life by giving me what it was like to read and to teach what I received to other deaf people who had never been to school as well. I am passionate about reading the Bible in symbols. The training woke me up from a sleep and gave me the strength to travel all over my country to share what I learned in this training with others. I can now read Mark's book in symbols that I received during the training very easily. I thank God and Wycliffe Associates for their great beneficial work for us deaf mutes. Once again thank you.
Am so grateful for this training, it has impacted my life in such a way that I am able to read some Bible verses using the SUN symbols. As an Evangelist and an Education Assistant to the Deaf pupils, am currently sharing the skills I learned to teach the Deaf pupils, since most of them can hardly read the Bible, I believe as I continue teaching them these symbols, they will be able to read the Bible since they have a lot of interest to learn about SUN.
"I am very grateful that SUN came... I spent the next three weeks of my remaining leave … studying hard with my facilitators. During this period, I made great progress not because I can now read and write thanks to SUN, but it raised my status from a simple SUN student and illiterate to that of an expert in SUN symbols which are easier to learn and understand."
A mother of a Deaf child cried a lot in the first day of workshop which we were teaching and training about SUN. It touched her heart and she said that the time had come for her daughter to know Jesus.
Our first training in the Pacific was a success. Nineteen educators and ministry leaders, from four different regions, were trained.
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