Like the Israelites in Egypt, we Deaf have a unique community with shared experiences and values. We are a people who thirst for God while being held back from learning about His love for us.
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Articles about deaf ministries, perspectives, and relational issues
The Importance of Intentional Ministry for Deaf Children
In this month’s edition of From the Executive’s Heart, get to know our new Executive Director, Tanya Polstra, her experiences with a Deaf baby, and her desire to spread the gospel to all deaf children. Link in bio.
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The day that delegates voted sign language should be banned, the dignity and respect of all Deaf individuals were stolen and some destroyed. Deaf teachers and professionals lost their jobs and their purposes, as there was an overall decline in Deaf mentorship, coaching, and discipleship. Also, the quality of life and education of deaf students was negatively impacted. It’s amazing the powerful influence those who are against sign language had, and still have. But that’s not the end…
Unguarded = At Risk
An unguarded field is vulnerable to stray weeds and malicious neighbors, especially the personal and spiritual lives of children.
Join us for Weekly Devotions
We invite you and your family to watch Chad Entinger and Stacey Morgan explain the story of the week in American Sign Language with English voice overs and captions.
Make Weekly Devotions your New Year’s Resolution this year!
Mixed Marriages
Building a new household with two people from very different backgrounds and experiences is harder than deciding where to squeeze the toothpaste.
Hearing Households, Deaf Siblings
Birth order, boundaries, differences in personality and skills, parental attention… and deafness. Everything adds to the adventure of natural sibling stress.
Deaf Households, Hearing Children
Just as more than 90% of deaf children are born to hearing households, the reverse is true: more than 90% of Deaf-parent households have hearing children.
What?
Those of us with aging loved ones get this question a lot. But not all hard-of-hearing people are senior citizens. Some are children, and they often don’t know that their experience is unusual.