Kennedy Oyoo went to go to a listening to church in Homa Bay, Kenya, that had some Deaf members within the congregation. When the worship service started, Kennedy began trying round for an interpreter.

Nonetheless, to his shock, two younger boys stepped ahead. One boy had a pocket book and a pen, and was writing down the sermon because the listening to pastor began preaching. The opposite boy learn over the primary boy’s shoulder, attempting to make sense of it earlier than he signed what was written within the pocket book to the group of Deaf individuals within the congregation.

Kennedy later discovered that the boy writing was listening to, and the boy signing was arduous of listening to. Due to the restrictions of writing down the sermon concurrently because the pastor preached, generally the written textual content wasn’t written effectively or missed some important items of knowledge.

Because the boy signed what he was studying, Kennedy seen the frustration and dissatisfaction on most of the Deaf individuals’s faces as they struggled to make sense of what was being conveyed to them. Most of them finally fell asleep through the service.