FAYETTEVILLE Priscilla Scanlan grew up as the only deaf person in a hearing congregation. It wasn’t until she left her home in Fayetteville for Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., that she ...
Ron and Wanda Ferris of Chicago found more than a church to feel completely comfortable at when they first attended services at the Oak Brook Community Deaf Church, a ministry of Oak Brook Community ...
Attitudes about ministries for deaf people have changed considerably since Woodhaven Baptist Deaf Church was founded in 1924. "For many years, the deaf ministry was treated as a mission to handicapped ...
The Rev. Tom Hudspeth demonstrates how to measure, mark and cut boards for house repair during a mission trip to Santa Fe, Texas. The weekly Sunday morning fellowship class of the Deaf Ministry at ...
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the array of worship services offered by Lovers Lane United Methodist Church included one in American Sign Language. About two dozen people came on a typical Sunday. On ...
KANSAS CITY — The sermon was so animated, it was as if it were being acted out in mime. Instead, it was a deaf preacher signing a sermon to a deaf congregation. One recent Sunday, about 65 members of ...
Finding a church in Carroll County to meet the Alfords’ needs was initially a challenge. Not only did they have to consider the congregation, the pastor and the doctrine, they also needed a sign ...
Willie Mae Rhoiney sits on a wooden pew captivated by the choir. She watches their fingertips twist in the air with grace and precision. And on instinct, she begins to mouth the words of the song in ...
Jerry Pearson recently taught about the importance of forgiving others, and people acting as peacemakers in society. Pearson taught the message through the use of American Sign Language (ASL) at the ...
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - St. John’s Episcopal Church for the Deaf in Cahaba Heights has begun live-streaming its worship services as a ministry nationwide to help deaf congregations without ministers ...
GREEN BAY - Patricia Sebranek and Bob Kamasky were every bit as involved in the Mass at St. John the Evangelist Parish last Sunday morning as celebrants the Rev. Joe Dorner and Deacon Tom Mahoney. The ...
LAGOS, Nigeria — It is like any other church in Nigeria 's megacity of Lagos. A lectern faces rows of plastic chairs. A biblical quote is written on a beam above. There is a music section, with a set ...
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