Never Judge A Book By Its Cover

Our congregation has the opportunity to participate in a unique facet (spell check) of the ministry regularly.  The brothers have an arrangement with the local community college that enables a small group to set up a table with our various publications during school hours.  This enables those passing by who may be curious to feel less intimidated and able to come up and ask questions at their own leisure. Both the ASL Congregation and the Sign Language Congregation have tables.  Which is really great as we have the opportunity to associate with those from the neighboring congregations that we never get to see otherwise being in completely different circuits and such.

 There are a number of campuses here in El Paso and we have a table at two campuses.  One of those campuses has many deaf students and so the table is extremely busy during the day.  However the other campus where I normally have the privilege of being at is at a much less busy campus with very few if any Deaf students.  As a result our table is usually very very shall we say quiet.  Once in a while though students and professors will stroll by and start to say how they have been interested in sign and such and often we are able to give them a good witness even finding out about Deaf they may know in the area. 

Last night was no exception to the quiet time we normally experience.  However all was not lost.  A little boy came running up and soon his father and followed.  Now the two looked like a typical father and son duo you would see here in El Paso, but the sister and I were both surprised to hear how passionately the father spoke of the Bible and his love for learning.  He brought up a number of points that bother him about the religions he has studied, the main being, why they don't teach from the "BIBLE".  We were able to direct him to the local hearing congregation and we were left with "happy heart puffs" (Sign language reference) and a sigh of satisfaction.

We never can tell who may have an interest and we must always be on the alert no matter what language congregation we are in for those with honest hearts.  This week over all has been especially encouraging in the ministry.  It seems slowly but surely we are witnessing Jehovah's word piercing the hearts of those we have been visiting for quite a while.  What a beautiful thing to behold.