Today we’re going to pray for Gretchen Snow, one of our missionaries serving in West Africa. We can easily imagine that she needs our prayers, because West Africa is a very difficult place to live.
Now just imagine how hard would it be for a Deaf person to live and serve there! Gretchen Snow is Deaf. She is one of many Deaf missionaries we Baptists now send around the world to share the Gospel with people who cannot hear.
But we’re going to change continents now – to Mexico. Before Gretchen moved to West Africa, she served in Puebla in northern Mexico. While she was there she learned Spanish sign language – “Lengua Senas”.
In a church for Deaf people there, Gretchen taught two women how to teach the Gospel in that sisgn language – how to tell Bible stories, how to pray. Gretchen moved to West Africa, but those two women, Selene and Ana, are still teaching, using what they learned from Gretchen.
Aren’t you glad our church supports Gretchen through our Cooperative Program giving each month?
Let’s pray that God will keep her safe now in West Africa and help her to be effective in her outreach to Deaf people there. And let’s also pray for those Deaf people in northern Mexico. Even Deaf people need to “hear” the Gospel!