08/21/2026
This week at Mission Hope Cebu, we introduced the students to a new song, “The More We Get Together.” It is a simple children’s song, but its message is something I believe we all need to hear, ‘the more we come together, the happier we can be, because your friends are my friends and my friends are your friends”
We learned to sign the song using American Sign Language (ASL), that made the song even more meaningful to me as we remembered Kaylee Hottle, the young Deaf actress who tragically passed away last month at only 18 years old. Kaylee was a native ASL user and became an inspiration to many through her work in movies and her representation of the Deaf community.
I thought it would be a beautiful way for our children to honor her memory, not through sadness, but through friendship, inclusion, communication, and coming together.
We may speak different languages, come from different places, or communicate in different ways, but friendship has a way of bringing us together. ❤️
And most importantly, as we teach our children through God’s Word, we are reminded that every person is valuable and created in God’s image.
The more we get together, the happier we’ll be! ❤️ 🙌 🙏🏻✨ 🕊️
