Deaf school
Run by the Diocese in Egypt
The Egypt Diocese Association (EDA)
December 2009 letter from Clair Malik
Dear friends
We wish you all a merry Christmas and Happy new year
Keeping Christ in Christmas:
Keeping Jesus Christ in your Christmas celebrations is to have him present in
your daily life. Keeping Christ in Christmas means daily revealing the character,
love and spirit of Christ that dwells in you, by allowing these behaviors to shine through your actions.
Give God one very special gift just from you to him:
Let this gift be something personal that no one else needs to know about, and let it be a sacrifice. David said in 2 Samuel 24 that he would not offer a sacrifice to God that cost him nothing.
Maybe your gift to God will be to forgive someone you have needed to forgive for a long time. You may discover that you have given a gift back to yourself. Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?" Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times. Math 18:21-22
Perhaps your gift will be to commit to spending time with God daily. Or maybe there is something God has asked you to give up. Make this your most important gift of the season. “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Psalm 139: 23-24
Our good news for 2009 is…
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We have eight students who have had success in their exams and have graduated and gone to a government school for the deaf.
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We are continuing our training courses throughout Egypt. Through our summer and other courses in Egypt and the Middle East, we have taught more than 200 people. Through these courses, our goal is to equip people and teachers to help the deaf. We still hope to establish a unique training center.
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Our summer camp was in Marsa Matruh and Ras Se’der this year. Eighty-five deaf parents and their hearing children , as will as , One Hundred and Twenty – five hearing parents and their deaf children attended . The lectures on Marriage Counseling , spiritual guidance and fun times have an enormous impact on the daily lives of these families.
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Our dream to expand the VTC came true when the Arch Bishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams, Bishop Mouneer, Bishop Ghais, Dr. Ali Alsman, three priests from Coptic Orthodox Church and community members put the first stone in the new land in 6th October City in January 2009.
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On the twenty-eighth of October, the Japanese ambassador, president of Nardine Association, Bishop Mouneer, and people from Social Affairs will celebrate the opening of the new Audiology and Ear Mold Clinic in Old Cairo. This will enable the poor in the community to get ear molds and test the hearing-loss of their children, even the babies, to allow for early intervention.
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Our deaf children and the deaf club members are so happy with the new computer Lap.
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We celebrated the first Anglican deaf engagement for Nermeen and Clement from the deaf club
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We started to translate the bible into Egyptian Sign Language
Clair Malik Rev Faraj Hanna
Deaf unit Director Deaf Church
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