DR Congo (MNN) — Every Child Ministries serves kids and their families in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with support services and Gospel hope. But earlier this year, ECM also launched a new Deaf ministry initiative!
ECM’s Lorella Rouster says, “We got started in this just last year when we realized that many of the unreached people groups of the world are the Deaf communities.”
(Photo courtesy of Every Child Ministries)
Before ECM launched their new Deaf outreach, all Gospel ministry to the Deaf in DR Congo was in the East. Western DR Congo, however, had no ongoing ministry presence to the Deaf.
One of the biggest needs ECM discovered in western DR Congo is many Deaf children in hearing families don’t have the chance to learn sign language.
“They really don’t have any way to communicate with anybody,” Rouster says. “They don’t understand anything in church, they don’t understand sign language without being taught it or having the experience with others who know it, anything on television, anything on radio — they’re cut off from everything.
“We have been trying to get some children into the special Deaf school where they can learn sign language, and therefore they can be exposed to the Gospel as well as having the opportunity just to make a decent life for themselves.”
You can sponsor a Deaf child in the DR Congo with ECM and give them the opportunity to know God’s love for themselves!
Click here for ECM’s child sponsorships.
Please pray for Deaf children and their families in DR Congo to embrace relationships with Jesus Christ and, in turn, minister to other Deaf individuals in their community!
Header photo courtesy of Every Child Ministries.
