(817) Bible for the deaf

That day I met a remarkable lady. She told us about her involvement with a group of deaf Christians who meet once a month to work on video recording parts of the bible, told in the form of stories.

Well, do you know that the sign language in each country is different? I did not. We were given a chance to view a story told by an Indian national for his compatriots. Then we viewed what the local group did. Indeed it was different, even an uninitiated like me could tell.

It is normally very difficult for a deaf person to obtain employment. Therefore it is hard for him or her to give up any steady job. But really, there is a great need for someone that was born deaf to have the courage to go full time into getting the good news into video sign stories. Once there is a full time person, then the need of premise comes in. We need to pray to the God who owns the cattle on a thousand hills for resources.

For us who talk and listen to millions of sound signals, it is difficult to imagine the difficulties of the deaf. They cannot listen to a sermon unless there is a translator -- from sound to signs.