Rev. Thomas Dunseth, Deaconess Diana Rice and Jennifer Ceyanes visited St. Peter Lutheran Church in Macau. Pictured also is David and Barbara Bush, LCMS missionaries who live and work at the Lutheran School for the Deaf in Hong Kong. David and Barbara brought over a group of students from the Hongkong school to visit Macau.
Yesterday Diana Rice was the guest teacher for the Introduction to Sign Language class for new teachers at Concordia School for Special Education in Macau. Concordia is a formerly all Deaf school in south China near Hong Kong. LFD has been working with the school for several decades and continues a partnership to this day.
Lutheran Friends of the Deaf is in Macau, China! On Wednesday evening, Diana Rice with Lutheran Friends of the Deaf gave a presentation on Deaf Culture to about thirty Deaf members and staff at the Macau Association of the Hearing Impaired.
Lutheran Friends of the Deaf has exciting news! Lutheran Friends of the Deaf is partnering with Trinity Lutheran Church in Hicksville, NY to begin weekly interpreted worship services for Deaf individuals. Interpreted worship services will begin on Sunday October 14, 2018, at the 10:45 am service. The Reverend John Hopkins is the pastor of the…
In June the Rev. Tom Dunseth of LFD traveled to visit the 2018 convention of the the Eastern District Lutheran Women’s Missionary League. During the convention, Rev. Dunseth paid a visit to the Rev. Dr. Louis Jasper. For those long time friends and supporters of Mill Neck Manor School for the Deaf, you will remember Rev….
LFD is working in Ethiopia with the Ethiopia Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY), one of LFD’s Lutheran Church partners, to train teachers and interpreters who serve the Deaf Schools in Ethiopia to translate God’s Word into American Sign Language. EECMY affiliate, Mr. Belachew Ensermu, who has many years of experience in project development and implementation,…
Lutheran Friends of the Deaf (LFD)—the founding member of the Mill Neck Family of organizations, dedicated to bringing the Word of God to the Deaf community through Sign Language translation—wants to make it possible for Deaf children and adults to have access to God’s Word. Holding true to this mission, LFD has created Bible Story…
Lutheran Friends of the Deaf extended a call to Deaconess Heidi Sias, who is LFD’s former deaconess-intern. The Diploma of Vocation calls Sias to officially serve as a commissioned deaconess for Lutheran Friends of the Deaf of the Mill Neck Family of Organizations in Mill Neck, N.Y., where she will continue to work on the…
On behalf of Lutheran Friends of the Deaf, Rev. Thomas Dunseth, the Director of Deaf Ministry Educational and International Programs, was invited to give a presentation about Mill Neck’s history of Deaf mission work in Asia at the 14th Asia Deaf Christian Mission Conference. Held in Hong Kong and attended by about 400 Deaf Christians…
Two weeks ago, on December 2, members of the Mill Neck Foundation’s Board of Trustees traveled to the island of Jamaica to visit the Jamaica Christian School for the Deaf (JCSD), located in St. James parish. The purpose? To unveil and dedicate the new John and Virginia Eberlein Memorial Library and Lutheran Friends of the…
