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2010-11-16T09:21:00.000-08:00

DEAR FRIENDS, AS YOU CAN READ LETTER FROM MODAM (INDIA), THEY HAVE DESIRE TO OPEN ONE CLASS FOR THY HEARING KIDS SHCOOL.
OCTOBRE 2011 WE HAVE PLAN TO VISIT THEM IN INDIA, TO GET MORE EXACT INFO, IN ORDER
TO HELP DEAF KIDS WITH EDUCATION.
PLEASE PRAY FOR MODAM AND DEAF MINISTRY IN ARUNASHAL PRADESH (NORTH-EAST INDIA).

Letter from India 19.12.2009

2009-12-18T16:52:00.000-08:00

Dear Ainar and Kristina,

Greetings from Arunachal India, May this Christmas season be time of joy and blesing and peace for your family and ministry.

I hope you will find this email in good heath. How about your ministry? How about Kristian and 2 lovely sons?

Ainar, Still the spirit of God is moving and telling me and Mibom to help the Deaf people in our Country. we tried to contact many people and also to one whom you wrote to Singaporian yet no news and we could not get any help and suport from any one except from you.

and at last we thought that it may not be will of God to do this ministry so we almost gave up and took up other ministry yet times and again God is telling and revealing us to take up this ministry. As there are 33000 disable man and women in our small state Arunachal out of that 23000 are only deaf call hearing impaired people it became so challenge and most pitible condition is that there is no hope these people there is no support from government side.

So atlast Mibom and myseldf decided to start this ministry from year 2010. Yet we do not have any suport and in order to start this ministry we are in need of one train person for Deaf people. And we contacted one person and he is agree to help us provided we pay Him Rs. 12000 in a month which is equvalent to US dollar 266. it is too expensive to pay a train teacher for deaf ministry. so we like to request you kindly uphold us in prayer so that we may fulfill the vision of God in us for those helples and hopeles people in our country.Still we have seed money for this ministry which you gave us while we were in Denmark.

If it is done we want you and Kristina to be a visiting lecturers for our School of hearing Impaired or ministry. so that in one year or two you may visit us and give lectures so that together we may meet the need of these helples people and we may be channel of blesing to them.
I believe God has certain purpose in our friendship and together in Mariager and meeting you there was a purpose of God. Because we are in restless for this ministry and there is no peace in our heart since we could do any thing for these helples people.

So please pray for us and give us more contacts from your friends.

waiting for your news and prayer

Thanks with love

Modam Dini

2009-01-20T08:52:00.000-08:00

Christmas 2008

Hello dear brothers, friends and supporters!

Our family greets you all from best of our heart!
Just past one year from time when we arrived from Estonia to Italy, with mission vision for Deaf in this country. One year we lived near Florence in fellowship with local Deaf Christians Luca and Giuseppina. They had great help for us in order to learn local culture, Deaf culture and teached us L.I.S (Italian Sign-language), also helped us with practical life.
Following the calling what we had on our heart, we did moved from Florence to region of Milan in order to start pioneer work here among Deaf, moving happened just one week ago. Practitically moving from Florence to Milan region went well. We find easily school for our oldest son, and thanks God, that Daniel is joyfull boy and adopt into new class well. Our youngest boy Darian must wait for kindergarden vacancy, at the moment he stays home.
Now whole life starts allover again for us:
1. First we need to find Church in Milan where we can grow spiritually ourself and start serving Deaf people with Gospel of Christ. I am (Ainar) sign-language interpreter and can use this gift for interpreting on Church services (yes I understand Italian language enough and signing L.I.S is good enough by now) also I have desire teach more sign-language interpreters in local Church. My wife Krista is Deaf and can potentially get contact with local Deaf people, communicating and evangelizing them.
2. We are sent out from Estonian Christian Pentecostal Church as missionaries “tent makers”. This last year shoves us that it is pretty hard to be “tent maker” with proffession I have. My secular proffession is cook, and I did same job also here in Italy (at the moment I am unemployed, I search for job), but here cooks work 6 days in a week (1 day off, and it is not Sunday) and working day starts from 3 PM until 11 PM. So there is no time left for family (kids going school morning time) and no time left for mission work. I did apply in employment-office, that I could do also some simple job in some factory, but they saied, that in acctual economic situation is hard to find job in factory.
I must find solution on this job issue to support my family and find time for mission.
Please pray for those two subject I wrote before, that God can guid us and bring solutions and support.
If somebody have into you heart to become our regular mission-partner, please contact with our Estonian Christian Pentecostal Church mission board: misjon@eknk.ee
If you know our mentor Harry Leesment (Australia) hleesment@optusnet.co.au , you can contact also with him for information. Also Mike Hennessey (Australia) mhennessey413@gmail.com know us well.
Let God bless you!!!
Pray for workers, because fiels are ready to harvest. Interesting enough that Jesus did not asked us pray for harvest, but for workers. Ask God, most probably He have work also for you, meaby also in foreign field. I will pray that God send some of you also into Italy or atleast into Europe!!!
Our blog is still: www.signmission.blogspot.com
Best Greetings from Italy: Ainar, Krista, Daniel, Darian Kertsmik

May 2008

2008-05-26T12:38:00.000-07:00

Our family

In restaurant

Hello dear brothers, friends, supporters!

We let you know how we are doing on our life and mission in Italy among Deaf people.
Now is four and half months while we moved from Estonia to Florence, Italy, with desire to help local Deaf with evangelical Deaf mission (our family is officially sent out by Estonian Christian Pentecostal Church).
To be clear, my first prioritys is very practical kind, like find a job (we are 'tentmakers' at the moment) and place to live for or family. Second priority is to learn Italian language and adopt Italian sign-language (to be able to interprate), also learn culture. Not very spiritual stuff, but basic steps in order to stay in the field.

Thanks God, life is going on: we found school for our kids (hearing), they are
inteligent to learn new language fast (like most kids in the world). Kids doing fine and they are happy to be here.
Even home-sickness disturbing us time to time, still my wife Krista doing well with adopting LIS (Italian sign-language) and also picking up some Italian words.
Still we live as guests together with our co-workers Luca and Giuseppina (local Deaf Christian leaders), but good news is that just some days ago we found apartment for our own and 16 of June we can move in.
Ofcourse renting apartment is not sheep, but thanks for our God, (who is provider) I found a job as cook assistant.

At the moment we going Brethren Church 70 km. from our home, because this is only place in Tuscany where Sunday services are interprated into sign-language. For information that entire Deaf population in Italy is over 70 000 and only about 20 persons of them are converted Evangelical Christians.
More info on our blog: www.signmission.blogspot.com

Good news is: we got info that there is small group of Deaf Christians also in Milan. Hope to make contact with them.

Other good news is that just this past Sunday I tried for first time to interprete the entire church service from Italian to LIS (Italian sign-language), and thanks God it went very well.

I send also some new photos of our family and of myself at workplace.

Be very encouraged to pray over Italian Deaf and for whole Europe!!!
AND PRAY FOR YOUSELF AND ASK FROM THE LORD WHAT IS YOUR PART OF EVANGELISATION OTHER NATIONS!!!

Warmest greetings from our family!!!

God bless you!!! Ainar Krista Daniel Darian

Moving from Estonia to Florence Italy

2008-01-25T09:06:00.000-08:00

PISA

We started our journey towards Italy 28th. of December 2007 and we landed in Italy 6th. of January 2008. Why it took so long? Because we visited first our dear friends Kai and Gert Van Tuijl in Nederland. It was very nice to see again Kai (she is my sign-language teacher and Apostel of Deaf Christians in Estonia) and her family.

Thanks for everyone who supported us for buying this car (Opel Sintra 1998/11). It is big enough for our family and 7 seats make it good also for ministry. Thanks again!

KAI(HEARING) WITH BLACK SHIRT AND HER HUSBANT GERT(DEAF) WITH BLUE SHIRT, SITTING TOGETHER BY THE NEW YEAR SELEBRATION TABLE.2007/2008

DANIEL, BEAR AND MYSELF.

IN THE SWISSERLAND.

KRISTA AND DARIAN.

JUST CROSSED ITALIAN BORDER.

MEDITERENEAN SEA.

LUNCH TIME. AS YOU CAN SEE OUR CAR WAS PRETTY FULLY LOADED.

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