Missionaries reaching out to people with impaired hearing
July 7th, 2008
From the New York Times, a feature about Mormon missionaries in the South Bronx. Jacob Frost, who is hearing impaired, at right in photo, and Jeffrey Westra, who isn’t, use American Sign Language as they visit current church members, recruit potential members and reach out to those who have strayed.
The church’s efforts to minister to the deaf in New York began in 1991. By 1998, the church had formed a deaf congregation, which today has some 250 members, about 100 of whom live in the Bronx …
(New York Times photo)


