We Read the Script!
When we look back over history, everything makes sense. It’s a perspective that we don’t have access to right now, but we have a peek at the ending.
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Articles about deaf ministries, perspectives, and relational issues
Community Interpreting
Silent Blessings is now in partnership with Luna Language Services. Adding interpreting as a service doesn’t change the mission and focus of Silent Blessings, which is to meet the spiritual needs of Deaf children and their families by developing elementary bilingual biblical education resources in ASL and English. Luna’s involvement will be the business side …
Beep
Signal received, but what does it mean?? “Beep” is a sound hearing people encounter every day. Audiologists use it to measure audio reception in their clients. But…what does it mean? What does one do with it?? How should we respond?? On my phone, beep-beep means I have a text message. If you’re waiting to ride …
An Unexpected Mission
An interesting email arrived in the Silent Blessings inbox. Cecilia from Nigeria had a question and chose to ask Silent Blessings. The email was written in ALL CAPS and in moderately broken English. From what I could piece together, Cecilia wanted to know if baptism made someone “born again.” She also asked if we could …
Priesthood of Parents
Mom & Dad, do you know you’re the priest of your family? Your children form their first understanding of God based on their interactions with you. I’ll give you a moment to recover from that staggering thought. The priest, in any belief system, is the representative of the god to the people and the people …
DeafBlind Ministry and Covid-19
by Pastor Dr. Francis Casale I am an ordained Pastor and have been in the Church of God ministry since 1993 at the InterCommunity Church of God (ICC) in Covina, California. I am Senior Pastor of the Deaf/DeafBlind/ASL congregation in partnership with Pastor Dave Collett, who is a Senior Pastor to the English speaking congregation. This …
Learning Requires Teachers
Acts 8:26-40 tells the story of the Ethiopian Eunuch – an official in the queen’s court, head of the treasury, who visited Jerusalem to worship. The Holy Spirit sent Philip to meet him. Actually, the instructions were, “go that way” followed by “join that chariot.” The man was riding along reading scripture. He understood the …
