Stepping Up

This past Sunday was an amazing day for the Deaf Ministry. The team stepped out in faith and stepped up to serve in an incredible way. With Jessica stepping up to sign worship, Reyna stepping up to sign the National Anthem, and then Ruth stepping up to sign/interpret the sermon, all with less than a 72 hour notice. The biggest victory though came with Ruth, who for the first time was going to interpret the sermon. The preparation was intense and required an enormous amount of faith and trust in God. Because with every door that I seemed to try and go through in order to secure another answer for the team concerning the interpretation of Sunday's message, each and every one of them continued to shut. And on top of that, Tony was preaching, who by nature is a very high impact passionate speaker. It was almost like the perfect storm. The wonderful thing about it though, was that instead of being consumed by fear, the entire team embraced the unknown, trusting fully in God that he had it all in hand, and stepped up to assure all aspects of the service would be interpreted. It was definitely a wonderful experience to be a part of. Seeing God move and be glorified all the more through the team, and their desire, willingness, and passion to just serve and trust in him and his provision for them, was an absolute joy!!!