Jubilee Christian Church

VOICE for the Deaf Ministries

JUBILEE CHRISTIAN CHURCH is the home of VOICE Ministries to the Deaf

Proverbs 31:8 - Be a voice for the deaf, speak for the poor and the oppressed

A ministry with a mandate to empower the world revival among deaf people.

In Estonia the deaf church is growing fast.
An international training centre for deaf pastors and leaders has been established in Tallinn.

THE DEAF
Can you imagine going through life cut out of the loop…never getting the goss…..not quite understanding the jokes, innuendoes, the asides and nudges and winks of life.

Now imagine what it is like to walk out of the silence into a new world where people suddenly speak your language: they speak with their hands, their eyes, body language and mime and gestures, and it’s fast, noisy, and exciting. Welcome to the world of the deaf. It is another world….a world forgotten by so many. Especially forgotten by those who take the good news of Jesus Christ to “all who can hear”.

The Deaf are
The Last Great Unreached People Group on Earth

China: 75.2 million deaf
India: 60.4 million deaf
USA: 16.6 million deaf
Indonesia: 12.7 million deaf
Brazil: 10.1 million deaf
Nigeria: 7.7 million deaf
Bangladesh: 7.5 million deaf
Japan: 7.5 million deaf
Russia: 8.7 million deaf

In Australia the numbers are falling due in part to the eradication of rubella, and other disease-accident based causes of deafness. Profound, prelingual, congenital deafness, occurs in families at a fairly regular rate of 1 per 10,000 births. In many developing nations, the partially deaf do not receive adequate medical intervention to preserve useful hearing, exacerbating the deafness statistics.

Yet these hidden people in hidden places are establishing extraordinary churches.

In Mongolia more than one-third of the people in a 500 member church, are deaf. Training colleges just for the deaf have been established in remote places like Mongolia and Estonia.

In those places where the DEAF are establishing deaf churches, there is revival among the deaf.

In Estonia the deaf Pentecostal churches are growing faster than mainstream churches.

In Japan deaf churches gave birth to the mainline Pentecostal churches

In many nations the revival among the deaf is marked by extraordinary events.

In 2001 Ann Jensen travelled to Estonia in the Baltic, and then to St Petersberg, Finland, Sweden and the UK, to explore the unique needs of the deaf communities in those nations. Her dream was to establish an international network of deaf ministries….because the deaf are not restricted by the same language barriers that impact normal missionary work. There is no international deaf language…but people who sign have a lot of common language. This was in part a personal journey, because in her immediate family she has three children, two grandchildren, and countless cousins, uncles and grandparents who have been touched by various manifestations of Usher Syndrome, the commonest cause of deaf blindness. Usher Syndrome is common among the deaf in Finland and Estonia.

What God says about the deaf
In Exodus 4:11 God takes responsibility for the deaf
In Leviticus 19:14 God provides protection for the deaf
In Isaiah 29:18 God promises the deaf will hear the gospel
In Isaiah 35:5 God promises to open the ears of the deaf in His Kingdom
In Isaiah 43:8 God speaks again of those who have ears, but refuse to hear what He is saying to the world

Jubilee Mission is driven by compassion and concern for social justice. We are currently supporting orphanages in China and Cambodia.