Some years ago, DMI founder Neville Muir came and spoke at our church. Neville was an unassuming man of modest intentions. He just loved the gospel and he loved Deaf people. I don’t think there was much more to it than that. As he travelled the world taking the gospel to the Deaf, this quiet, jolly, delightfully self-deprecating man somehow stumbled into greatness. Without having any ambition for it, he became a modern-day apostle, reaching thousands of the Deaf for Christ, a much admired and loved figure on the mission field.
As he spoke in our church, he told story after story of the lives that were being changed through DMI’s work. Some of the stories were charming. Others were simply miraculous. I sat, captivated, listening to this ordinary man talk about the extraordinary things that God was doing, and the way in which lives were being utterly transformed.
After the service I said to him, “Neville, these are extraordinary stories. They need to be recorded. Who’s writing them down?”
“No one,” he said.
That was the moment the idea for a DMI blog was born.
Since then I have travelled with Neville, and interviewed Deaf students, graduates, and staff from all over the world. Their stories continue to amaze me. God continues to amaze me. And I hope you’ll be amazed – and moved – as you read the stories of our Deaf neighbours’ lives.
Journey with me.
Pastor Andrew