It all began 22 months ago, when the first truck load of stone from a quarry was delivered. As some Masai cows lazily looked on, the stone was unloaded onto an empty piece of land outside of Nairobi, Kenya in an area called Ongata Rongai.
Soon thereafter, the chipping began.
With holes in his shoes, faded cap, worn clothes and equipped with just a hammer and chisel, he started chipping away; precisely and accurately chiseling the stone into construction blocks to the exact measurement required by the site supervisor. Six days a week. Eight hours a day. Rain or shine.
He, along with many other Kenyans, have worked faithfully for months. Though most of them are uneducated labor workers, they are highly skilled in what they do. They do it well!
They had no idea what their work would produce when they started. They probably have no idea what an IMPACT their work will have in the future – the future of the Deaf community around the world.
Now, 22 months later, these men are still chipping.
BUT, look what they have produced, one chip at a time!
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Three acres of wall filled with impressive, beautiful, well-constructed and solid buildings … a DEAF BIBLE TRANSLATION AND TRAINING CENTER. A first in history! A place designed specifically to facilitate Deaf sign language translation teams, alongside facilitators, back translators and translation consultants.
A place where God’s Word will be made clear and understandable, for the first time, to Deaf around the world.
King Solomon in the Bible, also, used skilled stone cutters to build a temple for God.
At the king's command they removed from the quarry large blocks of quality stone to provide a foundation of dressed stone for the temple. The craftsmen of Solomon and Hiram and the men of Gebal cut and prepared the timber and stone for the building of the temple. 1 Kings 5:17-18
All these structures, from the outside to the great courtyard and from foundation to eaves, were made of blocks of high-grade stone cut to size and trimmed with a saw on their inner and outer faces. 1 Kings 7:9
The work is not finished; daily they will continue chipping away, faithfully, skillfully, cheerfully, as more buildings are built. I think God is smiling on them. What can we learn from these men?
We learn from the Bible that God values skilled workmanship. These men demonstrate doing one thing and doing it well!
It is our desire that the “Deaf-Hand” Translator teams that come to this center will see the quality of the building workmanship, and apply the same standards to their Bible translation work.
DOOR prays that as the Deaf of the many countries served, see the quality of the sign language Bible translation, they will apply the same “workmanship” to their evangelism, discipleship, church planting and leadership.
Our vision is that God will use each workman as an approved vessel to ...
BRING GOD’S WORD AND CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
TO THE DEAF OF THE WORLD.
Won’t you help D.O.O.R. International do this?
What are you doing for God? Are you doing it well? Do you know what impact your work is having in your community and around the world?