Deaf reached online
After five years of planning and prayer, an Assemblies of God pastor has realized a dream of making his message available to deaf people everywhere.
Fredore Crews, pastor of Calvary Community Assembly of God Deaf Church in Norwalk, California, began broadcasting his Sunday afternoon worship services online through a live video stream in March. The messages, available at www.deafchurch.net, are communicated in American Sign Language, enabling deaf people from around the world to receive God’s Word via the Internet.
“There are thousands of deaf in the United States living in cities where no one is offering services in American Sign Language,” Crews says.
Though Christian television networks provide programs with closed captioning, Crews says messages designed by hearing people for those who can hear don’t have the same impact on the deaf as programs produced by deaf churches and ministries.
Since Crews began the Internet ministry, connections have been logged from as far away as South Korea.
–Libby Ward
Reprinted with permission from AG News and Pentecostal Evangel.
Picture courtesy of Libby Ward, Today’s Pentecostal Evangel.
