Through the years, many people have blessed and challenged me with their willingness to surrender to this calling. Only heaven will reveal the ones that have delighted the heart of God the most, but as I look back through my life at these people that have touched me with their personal journey, one Iranian woman who suffers from chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia stands out. Having withstood the rejection of family after giving her life to the Lord and then battling an illness that left her in constant pain, she embraced God's call on her life for the deaf community. Through my time in ministry I have watched this woman embrace the burden for the deaf and live it out. She started by learning sign language and then taught others to sign. A ministry developed to reach the deaf in the church and then to the deaf community in New York City. Today they offer simultaneous translation during services and travel to other countries to minister to the deaf around the world. She has given her life to reach the deaf and has not stopped allowing the Lord to push her to be more than she can physically be in order to win some. Not all, but some. 

"When I am with those who are weak, I share their weakness for I want to bring the weak to Christ" (1 Cor. 9:22 NLT).