Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Evangelical Church. With none of the vestibule chatter common to most church crowds, they seated themselves on straight-backed wooden chairs facing a simple black cross above the plain altar. They did not sing, give hearty responses or even say amen. The only voice was that of elderly (59) Pastor Otto Bartel, who for 29 years has ministered to Berlin's deaf-mutes...
...Pastor Bartel read the service, his nimble hands and massive, tired old face came alive. He took his sermon text from...
...communicate spiritually with deaf-mutes takes sympathy as well as sign talk. Says Pastor Bartel: "It took me seven years to be able to speak to them fluently and understand them. The fact that they are frequently misunderstood makes them stick to their own kind . . . It takes patience, very much patience, to win the confidence of such people...
Soon his flock must learn to trust a new shepherd. Church authorities have just assigned young Pastor Bernhard Stoeve-sand to be Bartel's assistant and successor. Stoevesand faces the same long training Bartel began three decades ago, has started by giving religious instruction to children. In the sentence, "Suffer the little children to come unto me," he shows "suffer" by a natural soothing gesture, "the" with the little finger of the right hand as expressed in the deaf-mute alphabet, "little children" by a baby-rocking gesture and "come unto me" by pointing to himself...
...Both pastoral counseling and theology, writes Hulme, "are working for the same ends . . . Working together, they can be an unbeatable team to minister to human need. Working together, they can make of the pastor a distinctive counselor-a minister of the church of Jesus Christ...