Lindsey Piersall

As a fourth-grader in public school I never would have dreamed that I would trace God’s love and plan for my life through American Sign Language and relationship with the Deaf community. After a sweet friendship in elementary school with a Deaf student who was mainstreamed, I grew up to pursue a BS in Sign Language interpreting, a MA in Applied Linguistics (second language acquisition and teaching) and earned my National Interpreting Certification. These things sound nice on paper but the truth is that they were all products of the joy and curiosity in my heart that the Lord has given me: over the beauty and richness of language, passion for linguistic justice and for Deaf people to be known so they can know the love of God in Christ for them and live life abundantly.

I came to SFH while we lived in Jacksonville, NC and were 5 months away from picking up our daughter in China. There is a long story about how the Lord humbled me in this continually but the long story short is that our daughter did not end up having hearing loss even though her medical file listed “profound hearing loss”.  By this time our family had already attended a family immersion retreat and I have been hooked ever since. Since then I have served as an interpreter for the ATCC training in 2020-2021, producing video vignettes, and just being a part of brain-storming and praying for Signs For Hope. I will be attending the TBRI practitioner training this summer, which I am pray will somehow benefit SFH.

I cannot boast in being able to contribute exceptional organizational skills or financial wisdom and expertise or even the ability to do full-time mission work. I can only say that I genuinely care about Signs for Hope very much, even outside it’s beautiful mission and vision. The people and process have become part of my own process and I can say I would serve whole-heartedly.