operation deaf orphans blog

All Work and All Play!
operation deaf orphans blog For the past few months and weeks, we've been having our meetings to prepare ourselves for Africa this summer. The meetings have been nothing but very productive and beneficial for us! We're very proud of our teammates for their initiative, commitment, motivation and leadership. We are definitely not a quantity but a quality team :) Most of our meetings include prepar...
Tue, Apr 17 2012

Spring Update
operation deaf orphans blog Hello everyone!We've been meeting quite a few times to plan for our summer camp. We also made a few trips where we were able to share news about ODO and fundraise for the summer camp. We wanted to share some pictures, so enjoy! The first group is our trip to Cincinnati the first weekend of March with IBTC students for a deaf children's fair and the s...
Fri, Apr 06 2012

ODO February Update
operation deaf orphans blog Romania Update!When we were in Romania last year, we visited a city named Cluj Napoca. It is one of our favorite cities, very beautiful with an excellent deaf church/community. We met a man named Costea Sandor there - and he took us to a deaf school where we met three older deaf orphans. All three of them had some issues with their eyesight, and ther...
Sat, Feb 25 2012

Lance's Deaf Orphans in Kenya
operation deaf orphans blog Hello, everyone!We hope you like our new website! We are very excited about going to Africa this summer, and it has consumed our thoughts lately (in a good way!) One of the programs that we will visit this summer with the team is Lance's Deaf Orphans. It is sponsored by Lance McWilliams, a deaf man who lives in Colorado. We've met him a few time...
Fri, Feb 10 2012

Updated Website!
operation deaf orphans blog Check out our updated website! to view, please click on this link: www.odeafo.comGod bless!
Tue, Jan 31 2012

ODO December 2011 Update
operation deaf orphans blog Video is captioned and all the information is on the video. We are excited about our new direction, and will be updating more as we get more information! We are BACK! :) If you want the video to be bigger, click on the "ODODecember Update" link at the top of the video box. God bless!
Wed, Dec 14 2011

Thanks to Our Supporters!
operation deaf orphans blog Remember when we visited a family with 5 deaf children from a small town named Iam in Romania??? We've posted several pictures from the previous blog in February to help you remember.Because of your support and donations, we were able to help them again. Your donation gave them food, plenty of them to last them a long time and without this donation, they would have a ...
Thu, Jul 07 2011

We're Still Alive!
operation deaf orphans blog Hey everyone! This is to let you all know that we are STILL ALIVE!Right now, we are enjoying our time with our family in Iowa and visiting with Deaf Missions. So far, we've had two very good meetings with them. The first meeting was informal - more of us getting "up to speed" with them. The second meeting included us giving a PowerPoint present...
Fri, Jun 24 2011

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operation deaf orphans blog Since we can't find a chance to get the rest of the team together and also have our camera ready, we decided to get this picture from their website at www.kharkovmissions.com! Here are the four married couples and their adorable children. The couple on the far left is Mike and Lucy McDougle with their boys, Canaan and Max. The woman in the beige jack...
Sat, Jun 04 2011

Kharkov, Ukraine
operation deaf orphans blog Anytime you see a picture with bad quality, you'll know that we took it with our iPod :) This is the central train station in Kiev, Ukraine. We are experienced travelers and we are usually confident when we need to buy tickets, etc, but this was the first time we've ever felt "overwhelmed" because of the language. Russian is impossible to read and un...
Wed, May 25 2011

Romania Notes and Farmin' in Poland
operation deaf orphans blog Hey everyone! We are sorry that we haven't updated our blog in 20 days! We have a lot to share, though! Hope you are able to view the video above and enjoy what we want to share with you. If for some reason it does not work, here is the link to the video [link] are now officially "banished" from Romania! At least for another three months, whic...
Wed, Apr 27 2011

Cluj Napoca, Romania
operation deaf orphans blog Hello everyone!When we were in Timisoara, we thought that it would be a smooth process to get a visa. Because it is our first time as missionaries for more than five weeks, we had no experience with this concept. We found out that especially in Romania, getting a visa is a LONG process where you have to visit many different offices and fill out many differ...
Tue, Apr 05 2011

Bucharest and Family
operation deaf orphans blog On the train between Timisoara and BucharestFinally in Bucharest - and guess who was waiting for us? Ryan and Allison, our family! Alex's sister is Allison, so Ryan is Alex's brother-in-law while Alexa is Allison's sister-in-law and you can connect the rest of the dots :) Allison is cold! They flew from Texas, where it was around 70 degrees. &n...
Sat, Mar 05 2011

Arad, Romania
operation deaf orphans blog Hello everyone!We haven't updated our blog in over a week! That's because it was an uneventful week for us - we didn't have the chance to go to Oradea like we wanted to because the trip would require us to go over our budget, something that we didn't want to do. We were, however, able to go to a closer city, Arad, and visit a program there where a lot of o...
Fri, Feb 25 2011

La Revedere, Timisoara
operation deaf orphans blog Bible study on Thursday night! The blonde woman on the right is Nicole Condra, a hearing missionary that we bumped into on the bus. She is fluent in ASL! She is very interested in the deaf and was happy that we could help her to meet deaf Romanian Christians. She is also on a research/survey trip, and she's going to be traveling across Romania ...
Sun, Feb 13 2011

It's Sunny in Romania
operation deaf orphans blog Us at the front of the church where we meet with deaf members. Beautiful church!Our backyard view. Our reading. Alex just finished Wizard of Oz, and Alexa is halfway through "IKTMIT"Outside our apartment, we found this horse-drawn buggy! There's a few around here. Romania!Visiting the deaf church leader, Szaby Mate. He's the key to o...
Sun, Feb 06 2011

Alex the sous chef, cooking away a delicate dish of...
operation deaf orphans blog Alex the sous chef, cooking away a delicate dish of sausage, red pepper and pasta!The recipe was inspired by Alex's mom, Kathi. Alexa is gobbling up this dish. Nice to have a homemade dish in another country. The ingredients here in the stores carry a lot of the same food that you would find in the U.S. or Canada, so it's not as frustrating as it was...
Mon, Jan 31 2011

Eastern Europe!
operation deaf orphans blog We found a McDonald's here in Timisoara, Romania and finally was able to upload pictures using our lapotp! Here are the pictures of our flight and the travel to Romania. Some of the pictures were taken with our iPod touch, and some with our normal camera! The plane wing of our plane from from Buffalo. Europe-Bound! One of the last bits of ...
Thu, Jan 27 2011