This is the last service at the school for the deaf before they take a short holiday break. School is different here from the U.S. They go to school year round with about 4 breaks during the year. Junior high school is called junior secondary school 1-3 (JSS1-3), and Senior high school is senior secondary school 1-3 (SSS 1-2). The jss3 students just finished taking their nation-wide exams to see if they passed to sss1. The school for the deaf in Cape Coast only goes to jss3, so we bid our goodbye's to the students that are going home in other regions. Some of the students who live in Cape Coast area are coming to our church on Sunday's.
Two Sunday's this month we transported all of the JSS3 student (19 in all) to our services during the two weeks they were taking exams. Since all the other students had vacated, they did not have services at the school. The Headmistress gave us permission to bring them to our services. We had 36 deaf people in those services. Now, they have finished their exams and have gone home. This past Sunday we had 16 deaf along with 64 hearing people. In two weeks the schools will open back up and we will continue our chapel ministry at the deaf school.
Also this month we had a deaf visitor at one of our Wednesday night services who is from Sweden. She is in Ghana for 6 months to help at the deaf school in Mampong. One of our deaf ladies brought her to church when she was visiting in Cape Coast. What a blessing to preach the Gospel to a Swedish deaf girl.
Pray for us as our deaf ministry has continued to grow since our camp this last December. We need to see deaf leaders trained to carry the Gospel to the deaf scattered about Ghana.
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