The Dan Bennett Family

May 20, 2009

God is good!

We had 6 deaf in church this past Sunday (05/17/09) – two from the deaf church in SP that came to help and four others!

We had Renata back again, but this time her (common law) “husband” brought her who is also deaf whose name is André.  Becky scheduled a visit with Renata for this Saturday at 3pm.  André and Renata have a hearing boy named Luis Eduardo who is nine years old.

Giovana (ten years old) came again also, but arrived late.

Becky and I made a visit with Cristiane on Friday, the deaf lady that was saved a few weeks ago.  She showed us her Bible where she had copied Renata’s spiritual birth certificate that David made for Renata.  We found out that Cristiane’s mother became pregnant with her when she was only 17 years old, and tried to abort Cristiane, but instead of coming out dead, she came out deaf.  Now, 30 years later, a girl that should have died by abortion was born again on April 26, 2009.  Becky will start a Bible study (discipleship) with her beginning this coming Friday.  Cristiane is married to a hearing man named William, and they have an 11-year-old daughter named Amanda.

Edson and Sonia came also from the Igreja Batista da Bíblia in São Paulo (IBB-SP).  We actually had more in the morning (40) than we did tonight (36). Read the rest of this entry »

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Dear Friends,
I guess it is my (Becky) turn to write. Back in January, we had our very first deaf person come to church. She came during our VBS. Her name is Giovanna and she is 10 years old. Bethany Bennett, my niece and David’s daughter, was helping in our VBS and was able to interpret for her. After VBS, Giovanna continued to come on Sunday mornings and we took up the job to remember our Portuguese sign language. We began going back to the deaf church on Thursday nights for their prayer meeting. This has helped our sign language to improve. Dan just recently began teaching in the Deaf Bible Institute. While we had worked with the deaf in our first term we had moved to begin a church in Osasco. At this church for more than 4 years we had never had any deaf people come until that day in January of 2009. Giovanna has continued to come faithfully all this time. Praise the Lord! She has learned many things and “heard” the gospel now several times, but still does not comprehend salvation. Sonia, a lady from the deaf church in São Paulo, began to come to our church back in February to help me with the class for Giovanna. However, if you were ever able to meet Sonia, you would soon see her love for souls! Last week, she told me about some friends of hers that live in a nearby city, Carapicuiba. She had invited them to come, but they already had plans for last Sunday, but said she would invite them again for the next Sunday, which happened to be today. I had been preparing material to teach for Giovanna because I had finished up what I had been teaching (The Wordless Book). So, I picked another set of lessons that would last for 5 weeks and still talk about salvation. Read the rest of this entry »

March 23, 2009

Dear friends and faithful supporters,

“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” Galatians 6:9

It was J. Hudson Taylor, English missionary to China who said: “God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on Him.”  We thank God that our efforts are not dependent upon our own strength, for we are truly weak and feeble.  However, we know from God’s Word that “our sufficiency is of God” (II Cor. 3:5).

We praise God for what He did during our Vacation Bible School the last week of January.  Much planning, time and effort went into the preparations before we began.  We recruited people from other churches in neighboring cities to come and help us.  Although we did not have as many children as we had in previous years, God blessed, and we saw 19 children profess faith in Jesus Christ. Read the rest of this entry »