Top 10 Reasons for Learning Sign Language 10...You can communicate through windows 9...Sign Language is a 3-D language 8...You can sign with your mouth full 7...Hearing parents can communicate with their deaf child 6...You can sign underwater 5...Sign Language is a neat way to express yourself 4...You can communicate across a room without shouting 3...Sign Language is beautiful 2...You can make friends with deaf people 1...Sign Language brings together hearing and deaf people

Learn to sign (American Sign Language - ASL) the lyrics to songs used in worship.  The group meets Mondays at 6:30 PM, October through Early December then again in January through May.  Contact: Nancy Kuehn

The St. Timothy Worship Sign Group started in the Fall of 2003

Membership varies by year and has included up to 14

The group has done a small performance at Christmas and in the spring.  Performing is not a requirement of being part of the group.

We either begin the class and/or end the class with a prayer, but we have a great time praising Our Lord all the time we are in the class with our hearts, hands, and sometimes our voices.  We laugh, cry, and make mistakes which are "no big deal!"  We learn ASL through music, incorporating various parts of the language such as time, direction, eye movements, placement of characters, non-manual markers, numbers, and fingerspelling.  All in an atmosphere of worship and music.  We incorporate into our programs poetry, prayers, instruction of sign language for audience participation.  Children, teens, and adults are all invited to join us.

Interesting Facts:

• There are approximately 22 million hearing-impaired persons in the U.S.
• Deaf people have safer driving records than hearing people nationally.
• The huddle formations used by football teams originated at Gallaudet University, a liberal arts college for deaf people in Washington, D.C., to prevent other schools from reading their sign language.
• The man who invented shorthand, John Gregg, was deaf.
• Carl Anderson, a deaf cartoonist, is the creator of "Henry"
• a deaf center-fielder for the Cincinnati Reds, William Hoy, invented the hand signals for strikes and balls in Baseball.
• Phyllis Frelich won the Tony Award for Best Actress of 1980 in the Broadway play "Children of a Lessor God"  Ms. Frelich is profoundly deaf
• Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was originally an instructor for deaf children and invented the telephone to help his deaf wife and mother to hear.
• Scuba divers often use sign language under water. 
• Deaf people can sign/talk at great distances without the use of amplification through the use of sign language.
• Statistics prove that deaf people live longer than hearing people.
• Deaf people develop keener senses of observation, feeling, taste, and smell to compensate for their loss of hearing
• Deaf people appreciate advice or warnings regarding any noises that bother hearing people.
• Deaf People vote, pay taxes, drive cars, attend business, social and religious events.