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…
“This is a new awakening.”
A paradigm shift: from persecutor to promoter
DOOR’s Europe location opened in Budapest to better reach the Deaf population in Europe.
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.
The Asia Was established to reach the Deaf Population with it’s home base being in the Philippines.
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Director DOOR-Africa
Boniface Muriithi,
President DOOR International
Michael Buus
Office Manager
Jack Owiti,
DOOR’s First Africa office and training center helped to lay the ground work for the larger campus that would come later
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
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
Seeing the need for Bible Translations in Sign Language. DOOR went to translation training hosted by Wycliffe/SIL in order to learn the process for Bible Translation.
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