The vision

Throughout the continents, peoples, cultures and languages, churches have been planted. The content (the message) is the same everywhere, but the form is adapted to the local culture. Language, in particular, is the local one.
For the people born deaf, the spoken language is foreign and their natural language is sign-language.

There are today, around the world, churches catering to the spiritual needs of the deaf through the use of their language.
Our vision is to help the establishment of churches functioning in sign-language and the training of deaf pastors.

A missionary church

When a missionary prepares himself or herself to go to a distant land and to a people which does not know the Gospel, his or her first task consists in the study of the culture of that people. He or she must know their way of thinking, their taboos and politeness. The structure of the society and the modes of communication... In short, everything that will allow his or her message to get through. But above everything else, he or she must master the local language. It is inconceivable that a missionary should depend upon an interpreter at least on the long run. Many missionaries spend long months in the country, studying the language, before becoming active.

The goal of every missionary is to train local leaders so that the work continues after him or her.

A missionary to the deaf will take the same path, the same training and will have the same goal.