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 Glossary Project

• The ASL glossary project of UMCom

• Download a flyer you can share about the project
  

ASL in Worship

• “See it! Say it! Sign it!” a video about ASL in worship from the Minnesota Conference.