Doug and Val Clutton

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Doug and Val were both born in Ontario, Canada and were raised in
Christian families. They both accepted Christ at the young age of
11 at a Baptist summer camp. Val spent a year on a short term
mission team during which time she spent 5 months in the
Philippines after which she returned to Bible College. Doug
finished his Master’s degree in audiology and also one year at
Seminary. They attended Urbana ‘84, a large missions conference
and both individually felt God leading them into missions. They
were married Dec 21, 1985 and God blessed them with 2 sons, Tim and
Andy. They were accepted as career missionaries by SEND
International May 1988 and left for the Philippines Nov. 1989.
They went to language school and were assigned to a church planting
team, although their hearts were burdened for the Filipino deaf who
have very few services country wide. From 1993-98 they were on
loan to Fishermen of Christ, Inc., Philippines where they became
familiar with the ministries of DMI. They returned to Canada in
2001 for family reasons and have been heavily involved in various
leadership positions in their multi-national local church. Doug
worked in a paediatric cochlear implant program for 6 years in
Toronto, finished his Doctoral studies and has spent the last 3
years working for Cochlear Canada as Clinical Territory Manager for
eastern Canada. Val really enjoyed working at SIM Canada’s head
office for 5 years. She has been at home for the past 3 years
because of the onset of the early symptoms of Huntington Disease.
They began a ministry for the deaf at their church but only one
family came for a period of about one year. In looking ahead to
“what’s next, Lord?” they were reminded about the on-going
needs of the deaf in the Philippines. They believe that God is
opening the doors for them to return in summer 2010 (without their
sons) to serve full-time with DMI. Since DMI doesn’t have a
Canadian office, they applied with World Mission to the Deaf and
were accepted. They will be on loan to DMI and are looking forward
to moving to Bacolod City to assist Albert and Kim with the deaf
churches and other ministries that Albert and Kim have started
among the deaf there. Pray for open doors at each step along the way.