Dear Friends,
What a great start to another year of serving the Lord! January and February were busy in wonderful ways.

January: Bolivia
Stephanie and I had an incredible opportunity to help some missionaries reach the Deaf in their town of Tarija, Bolivia. The trip was a survey trip of the situation and to lay out a future plan.

We didn’t get solid details on the deaf population, but we expect there are more than 500 Deaf in the city. We were there at a beautiful time of year; however, it was during summer break from school and all the deaf service groups were also taking a summer vacation. Therefore, there is a need to go back to get more information and prepare a solid plan. The next trip may happen as soon as April.

February: Arizona
The month of February was spent in Arizona. We visited a couple of pastors and churches on the way out there and also spent time at our sending church on both legs of the trip.

We spent most of our time in Phoenix and Tucson doing promotion for West Branch, the deaf camp that I speak at in Arizona each summer. We made some really great contacts in the deaf community and were able to visit old friends along the way.

I preached in two different deaf churches. One is in Phoenix and was started by BIO missionary Mike Remington. The other deaf church in Tucson is pastored by our friend Ronnie King.

I was privileged to preach 12 times on this trip. I preached twice in an “English” church (which happened to be our sending church). The rest of the services were either in American Sign Language (ASL) or at Spanish speaking churches. It was nice to get to use our three main ministry languages on this trip. All we lacked was preaching in Mexican Sign Language (LSM) to complete the languages we are most comfortable in.

The Next Few Weeks
I will be speaking in deaf services every weekend in March. We will also be in a couple of hearing churches this month. In April I plan to make a quick trip to Bolivia to meet with some of the people and organizations we were not able to talk with in January.

May starts the preparation for the summer events. We will be involved in a few weeks of deaf camp as well as our annual missionary training school. We look forward to continuing to serve the Lord as we serve those who are reaching the Deaf in their areas.

Thank you for your prayers and support. We are grateful for the new supporters we have added to our team recently!

David Peach

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