Our History

From our meetings, advice and prayer, we concluded that the best approach to reach the Deaf for Christ was not to establish a single ministry with a single focus, but to establish a network and act as a clearinghouse to maximize our efforts to reach the Deaf for Christ. We recognized that there is a great need for resources, training, assistance and general information to help the many individuals and churches effectively reach the Deaf in prison in their local areas. We were also encouraged to be a non-denominational, evangelical and independent ministry that would partner with the hundreds of prison ministries for the hearing that already exist. By having this partnership, we would again, maximize our resources between the hearing and deaf prison ministries without re-inventing the wheel by creating a "single minded" prison ministry for the Deaf.

It is estimated that there are about 20,000 Deaf inmates in America's prison system and we have identified a handful of individuals and ministries who already have a focus on reaching out to the Deaf in prison. The biggest problem we have found is that those individuals and ministries are often working alone and have little or no resources available to them. We have also identified 500+ churches that minister to the Deaf and have found that most of them are not prepared to minister to the Deaf in prison primarily for the lack of resources and "know-how" to reach the Deaf within the prison system.