Knowing I have profound hearing loss, a Baptist friend and neighbor passed on to me pages from the May 28 issue of The Alabama Baptist, specifically the article “‘Patience’ is key. First deaf M.Div. student graduates from Beeson.”
After the headline and great photograph, my focus went to the enlarged quotation: “I am called by God to preach and minister to the deaf and hard of hearing community.”
Yes. “The deaf and hard of hearing community.”
As one who was left with a significant (and progressive) hearing loss at the age of three from ear infections and is now 67, I’ve lived in a “between” world, not hearing and yet not deaf, and I know of no church or any denomination in which a pastor, deaf or hearing or “between,” ministers to the deaf and hard of hearing community (until now).
Thank you for publishing “‘Patience’ is key.”
Lucy Taylor Chapman
Homewood, Ala.
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