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Read more about the article A Letter from the President of DOOR

A Letter from the President of DOOR

  • Post author:Marisa Sorenson
  • Post published:April 13, 2021
  • Post category:DOOR Blog/DOOR Updates
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2020 was an unexpected year. Travel was largely shut down, the words pandemic and social distancing were on everyone’s hands and lips, and many of our staff learned how to…

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Read more about the article CBT transforms Deaf lives in Tanzania

CBT transforms Deaf lives in Tanzania

  • Post author:Marisa Sorenson
  • Post published:March 29, 2021
  • Post category:DOOR Blog
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This testimony came from a new Deaf believer in Tanzania: "I've been part of a discipleship group in the Mbeya region for over a month now. I felt the Lord calling…

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Read more about the article 30 for 30 – Feeding the Hungry

30 for 30 – Feeding the Hungry

  • Post author:Marisa Sorenson
  • Post published:March 22, 2021
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Earlier this year, DOOR International received many reports of Deaf people and families suffering from a lack of food as many lost their jobs due to the lockdowns and economic…

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Read more about the article My Children Are Following Jesus…Now What?

My Children Are Following Jesus…Now What?

  • Post author:Marisa Sorenson
  • Post published:March 1, 2021
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Ganes*, a Deaf man from Asia, didn’t know what to do. His parents raised him in the Buddhist faith. Yet his own adult children became followers of Jesus after finding…

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Read more about the article International Week of the Deaf 2020

International Week of the Deaf 2020

  • Post author:Marisa Sorenson
  • Post published:September 23, 2020
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https://youtu.be/-ZzoBSRGhFMThe final full week of September has been designated the International Week of the Deaf by the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD). WFD launched this annual event in 1958…

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Read more about the article The Impact of the Coronavirus on the Deaf Community

The Impact of the Coronavirus on the Deaf Community

  • Post author:Marisa Sorenson
  • Post published:March 24, 2020
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Read or watch for information on how the coronavirus is impacting Deaf communities around the world.

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Read more about the article Honoring Luka Lengewa

Honoring Luka Lengewa

  • Post author:Marisa Sorenson
  • Post published:October 21, 2019
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We are sad to share that Luka Lengewa, one of our beloved translation consultants from Kenya, passed away Monday morning (Kenya time) from complications due to his esophageal cancer. Luka…

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Read more about the article Sign Language Advancement at Brackenhurst

Sign Language Advancement at Brackenhurst

  • Post author:Marisa Sorenson
  • Post published:August 21, 2019
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There were no Deaf people or hearing people … we were justpeople, brothers and sisters in Christ. — one of the Deaf CITs after our firstSign Language Advancement Program Tweet…

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Celebrating our graduates

  • Post author:Marisa Sorenson
  • Post published:March 21, 2019
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We are proud to present the 15 people who will be graduating this April from their four year consultant training programs. 9 consultants-in-training (CITs) will become linguistic consultants, specializing in…

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Read more about the article Ethiopian Deaf encounter Gospel growth

Ethiopian Deaf encounter Gospel growth

  • Post author:Marisa Sorenson
  • Post published:October 12, 2018
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"With a worship service led by the Deaf in sign language, more Deaf people will learn God's word, receive Jesus Christ, and learn to serve Him with their time and…

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In addition to lacking resources, trained leaders felt they didn’t have ground support. In order to better provide support to leaders and churches DOOR established 2×2, you can learn more about that here.

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The old “DOOR” was involved in many different Deaf ministries activities – church planting, training, producing videos, running camps, singing tour.  A small group would move to a city, survey the Deaf community, begin reaching out and establish a Deaf ministry. After about a year they would leave one staff person and move on to another city in the US.

As DOOR started to get more and more requests both in the US as well as overseas, they merged with United World Mission (UWM) to help them learn how to reproduce themselves, get more focused and stable financially.

To be more effective at reaching the International Deaf Population DOOR worked with Dr. Lovejoy to learn about the method he developed, Chronological Bible Storying.

By going out on the streets of Nairobi, mainly in the evenings and at night time,  a ministry to the Deaf started with just a hand-full of Deaf who became believers and wanted to learn more about the Bible.  

11 students (9 Deaf and 2 hearing) graduated from DOOR’s Deaf Leadership Training Center after completing one-full year of training to be Deaf church planters/missionaries and trainers in Chronological Bible Storying developed by/for the Deaf.

The First class of DOOR’s Deaf Leadership training program was the first of the Continent based training programs.

DOOR’s Europe location opened in Budapest to better reach the Deaf population in Europe.

The Asia Was established to reach the Deaf Population with it’s home base being in the Philippines.

DOOR’s First Africa office and training center helped to lay the ground work for the larger campus that would come later

There were 18 fellowships meeting throughout all of Kenya that started with DOOR. They wanted to organize together to better support each other and so they met and established their own Fellowship!

The Americas Team arrived in Puerto Rico to reach and train the Deaf Population in the Americas

BULGARIA:  Senka Borisova Flarova (F), Metin Ibriamov Hiuseinov (M), Sofia Dimitrievna Kortac (F), Plamen Stephanov Paunov (M)

MOLDOVA:  Anastas (Dusia) Evdoklya Vasilyevna (F), Boboc Andrei Georgiyevich (M), Boboc Natasha Ivanovna (F). Ceban Nadejda (Nadia) Vasilyevna (F). 

ROMANIS: Ladislau (Laci) Bortos (M), Niculina (Nina) Bortos (F), Ermil Florea (M), Costel Rusus (M)

The DOOR Americas team moved to Costa Rica. After 9-11 the Deaf people from outside the U.S. that were supposed to come to Puerto Rico couldn’t get visas so the office needed to move.

3 from Costa Rica

4 from Honduras

2 from Puerto Rico

1 from Venezuela

13 Deaf  Filipino from Angeles City, Baliwag, Palawan, Tartac, Dagupan, San Fernando & San Pablo

The goal for leaders trained in each country to reach the Deaf in their country hit a snag. There weren’t materials for the Deaf Leaders to use to reproduce. The need for Bible Translations into sign languages became clear. After getting some basic training from Wycliffe each center became a center for Bible Translation and Church Planting

Stuart Thiessen and Philippe Gallant started a Church called Signs of Grace Church that was a multi site church all Deaf Organization. They started providing resources and DOOR Partnered with them for the ASL Translation. This organization became Deaf Harbor.

After much hard work the Kenyan Translation Team and the Sign Language Bible Consultants finished the first 32 stories into Kenyan Sign Language.

It wasn’t feasible to establish a full translation studio in each continent so the decision was made to focus on Kenya campus so the technology could be state of the art. Translation teams now could collaborate and integrate.

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