By Jon and Diane Barr
Hymns for the Deaf has 75 hymns ready-to-sing. This hymnal helps signers make great hymns easy to understand for deaf people.
Jon and Diane Barr have created a song book that is easy to use and will help deaf churches, soloists, interpreters, and ASL students. Many people have requested a hymnbook like this. Finally it is available.
The hymns are lose-leaf so you can place them in a notebook in the order of your hymnal.
Below is one of the hymns so you can see the method used. In the front of the hymnal there is a full explanation of each method used. (For example, words that are capitalized, as THERE, are signed toward Heaven. R- means signed to the right, L- means to the left.)
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To God be the Glory THERE GOD GLORY, wonderful HE finish do. Much love HE world, HE GIVE-me HIS Son. R- JESUS SURRENDER LIFE // L- forgive sin // R- OPEN HEAVEN // L- all ENTER. Chorus: R- PRAISE Lord, PRAISE Lord, // L- earth HIS announce, R- PRAISE Lord, PRAISE Lord, // L- people happy. R- GO-TO FATHER accept JESUS THAT SON, R- ANNOUNCE GLORY, wonderful GOD finish do.
C- Perfect forgive, BLOOD pay every believer, GOD promise. L- Awful sinner // R- true believe, R- Fast JESUS accept forgive.
R- Wonderful HE finish TEACH-me, wonderful HE finish do, C- Much our happy // R- accept JESUS THAT SON. R- But pure more, high more, better future, Our AWE, our excite, Happen see JESUS.
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See the actual page from the hymnal (requires Acrobat Reader).