Hurricane Ike Recovery Mission

In a joint venture Lovers Lane UMC Academy for the Deaf and Deaf Perceptions from Asbury UMC in Tulsa, Oklahoma, took a trip to Santa Fe, Texas to help in the Hurricane Ike Recovery headed up by UMCOR. They were Hosted at Aldersgate UMC in Santa Fe, Texas.

The Mission was from March 16, 2009, through March 20, 2009.


This is the entire Team of Recovery Workers.


This is the four from Asbury UMC Deaf Perceptions, in Tulsa, Oklahoma


This and the next picture is the Lovers Lane Academy for the Deaf team members.


Kids moved around so it takes to get them all looking at the camera.


More of the work being done to the roof.

Below is a video of the Home Owner signing about the damamge Ike did to his home, and some footage - very rough - of the worka nd workers.



There will be a Page on the Missions Part of the Web site with more pictures soon.

Symposium Pictures

Disabilities Ministry Symposium is sponsored by the North Texas Conference, one of our grant recipients. We provided funds to pay for Sign Language Interpreters for this event, which was held on February 21, 2009, at Custer Road United Methodist Church in Plano, Texas.



Rev. Liz Moen, the Associate Director of Connectional Ministries for the North Texas Conference, was the contact person and organizer of this event.

More Meeting Pictures - Sunday Night

After several days of hard work the Group went to Campisi's Pizza for dinner and fellowship.














Happy 18th Birthday Trevor.


Communion is offered when the group returned to the Church.


Rev Rebecca Kelly served communion assisted by Rev. Diana Williams ...


and Trevor Swearingen.








An altar with the Logo for the Deaf Ministry at Lovers Lane.

Welcome Brabara as an Author

Barbara Reynolds has joined the Author group. We look forward to all of our authors posting about activities in their local ministries. There will be more pictures from the meeting in Dallas today. The Web-Servant needs help with captions for some of these pictures. also as you may note the font size has been increased and the width of the blog slightly increased as well. This can all be changed back. Please give me feedback on this change.

We also need more links to other web sites that address the needs of the Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Deaf-Blind, and Late Deafened people.

Friday Afternoon Events

Tom Hudspeth conducts a tour of the Lovers Lane Church Facility.

Four Authors!

Michelle has joined the Author group for the blog. Yeah!! Don't forget to look down the page for all the new postings. Also the Contributors are listed in the sidebar.

And you can subscribe to the blog. You will be sent notification via email when there is a new posting.

Lovers Lane Academy for the Deaf

A special treat was given the Committee when members of the Lovers Lane Academy for the Deaf performed.


The Group signing a new song that they just learned.


Nicole Sampson


Academy students and teachers are (left to right): Geoff Rathbun, Diane Smith (teacher), Nicole Sampson, Peggy Key (Executive Director), Brenda Ramirez (seated), Derick Mullinax, and Mary Kay Hudspeth (teacher).