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Interpreted Ministry
Selected Best Practice, Brief Guides, and Inserts
These guides, which are frequently updated, are intended to provide the best practices and a guide to getting starting in a particular area of ministry. See the complete list here.
- Deaf Ministry Best Practices Resource Guide (January 2018)
Microsoft Word
Large Print Microsoft Word Adobe PDF 
- A Brief Guide to Sign Language Interpreting
Microsoft Word Large Print Microsoft Word Adobe PDF - Guidance for Learning Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Microsoft Word Adobe PDF - Tips for working with a Sign Language Interpreter
Microsoft Word Adobe PDF - American Sign Language
Microsoft Word Adobe PDF - Common ASL Signs
Microsoft Word Adobe PDF - Interpreting at Church: A Paradigm for Sign Language Interpreters, 4th edition (Leo Yates). Goodreads information. Available for Kindle Readers or in paperback from Amazon or paperback from B&N.
- Deaf Ministry: Ministry Models for Expanding the Kingdom of God, 2nd edition (Leo Yates). Goodreads information, UM Disability Blog review, Stories by Hand review. Available for Kindle Reader or paperback from Amazon.
- Pocket Reference of Religious Signs, revised (Leo Yates jr). Paperback from Amazon and others.
- Religious Signing: A Comprehensive Guide for All Faiths revised (Elaine Costello). Goodreads information, publisher's site. Available for Kindle Reader or paperback from Amazon and others.
- Hymns for Signing, Abingdon Press. Goodreads information. Available from Cokesbury.
- So you want to be an interpreter? (Janice Humphrey). Paperback or CD from Amazon and others.
- “Religion Signs”, a 5:32 video from YouTube.
- “Signing with Val - Religious Vocabulary” a 10:59 video from YouTube.
- Resources for religious interpreting website.
ASL in Worship
- Mark and Sandi Johnson share about their ministry at Christ Deaf UMC with Bearded Theologians.
- “See it! Say it! Sign it!” a video about ASL in worship from the Minnesota Conference.
ASL Glossary Project
