LFD hosted a barbecue dinner for former Deaf alumni students of Concordia School in Macau. Pastor Dunseth, Deaconess Diana Rice and Jennifer Ceyanes worked there together and taught the children the Word of God in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
In December of 2018, I had the opportunity to travel to Ethiopia and visit the Hosanna School for the Deaf with a fellow Concordia Nebraska student, Whitney Pottschmidt. Belachew Ensermu served as our wonderful guide to the beautiful country of Ethiopia and our go-between at the school. We were able to see the school, have…
Our very own Deaconess Heidi Sias had the honor of being interviewed by The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod’s KFUO radio station last week about LFD’s resources and about Deaf ministry. They even arranged for a transcript to be provided of the interview. Thanks to Sarah & Andy, hosts of The Coffee Hour, for inviting LFD to…
Director of Lutheran Friends of the Deaf (LFD) Pastor Thomas Dunseth and LFD Deaconess Heidi Sias were in Michigan with some Deaf individuals to make recordings for the sign language liturgy gloss. LFD began working on an American Sign Language (ASL) gloss of the English liturgy of the LCMSLutheran Service Book hymnal back in 2015….
