August 2024 Update from Brooke Bateman
Greetings from Slovenia. Thank you for your prayers as I move and transition here. Gasper my fiance has taken such good care of me as well as his family! God is also providing language helpers and an expat community to help me not to be so isolated in a new forien land.Preparations for the wedding are ongoing and Gasper and I appreciate your prayers. We also spend much of our time praying and seeking God for what His vision and desires are for Gasper and me as a couple in a least-reach country with so much darkness and people without access to the Word. Gasper and I both desire to continue a Bible study with the Dead and the Deafblind. But we also believe a church plant is God's desire for us. Gasper is a newer believer. Only 3 years now. Thank God for his mentor and that he is being discipled weekly. Please pray for us to stay focused on our individual ministry and work as well as coming together with one heart and mind in future possibilities.
I am traveling to Romania by plane on Monday for a 3-day ministry trip. Please pray I will serve the Deaf and those present with excellence and humility. Gasper and I will also travel to Romania the following week to have a blessing and farewell. It is also life-giving for Gasper to see how a Deaf church is led by the Deaf pastor and fellowship. I see each time how God uses this to shape more vision and fan the flame of church planting in Gspers heart. Pray for God to use Gasper and I and the 2 other Deaf believers here to accomplish His will and build the church His way, with love and grace, built to last on the foundation of CHRIST alone.
Please pray for me as I continue to learn and study for my exegetical training and work with Deaf translation teams. I am extremely honored and in awe of the work WE DO TOGETHER to come alongside the Deaf in their call and work to translate Scripture into Sign Language and Disciple.
Gsper and I plan to come to Atascadero in December and celebrate our union and see all of you. Please know how grateful I am for you.