I cannot believe that it has been almost a year since I returned from teaching in Nepal. I have enjoyed being back with my family, but I miss Nepal and all my friends there so much, especially the Deaf students. Thankfully I have been able to stay in contact with some of them through facebook. So these past two semesters that I have been back I have been busy traveling with my family. We were in Kentucky last semester (the Fall, 2011), and have been in Florida this semester (Spring, 2012). As we have traveled and spoken in Churches on the Biblical View of Life, I have been signing a song at every Church we go to for the adults, and if we speak to children and/or youth I have also signed a song for them. Besides that I have also had many opportunities to share about my trip to South Asia. I shared at my home Church in Kentucky, and a home-school group in Kentucky. I also shared at two other Churches in Kentucky, a job corps in Kentucky, and a FISH Club at a middle school in Kentucky. I have also shared at a GA/RA’s group at a Church in Florida, and a Christian school in Florida, as well as a Bible Study in Colorado while we were out there over Easter to visit family. I have really enjoyed getting to share my experience with others! I also began taking some online classes last fall to get my ESL certification and I finished up all of the requirements for that in February 2012. So that’s pretty much what I have been up to since returning from South Asia. Now this Summer I have another amazing opportunity to work with the Deaf. I applied and recently found out that I have been accepted to serve with NAMB as a student worker in North Carolina over the summer, working with the Deaf. I am really excited. All the details are still coming together for that, but I will post another update as soon as I learn more about exactly what I will be doing and such. God is also guiding me to return to school this fall, but not back to Tennessee Temple University, instead I am transferring to Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina to pursue a degree in American Sign Language. Please pray for God’s will for both the opportunity to work with the Deaf this summer, and beginning school again in the fall. Please pray that all of the details work out. I especially ask that you pray for the finances to be provided for me to go to school this fall; I am receiving financial aid and scholarships, but I will still be quite a bit short to pay for tuition, but I know that where God calls, He provides.
“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.”
~ Philippians 4:6-7, 19
(You can stay updated with Caitlyn at her website/blog http://deafwillhearthebook.blogspot.com/)