This model is the most effective method of reaching and discipling deaf children for Christ. It also plays an effective support role for the other models. 

The Residential School model targets deaf who are not reached by Church Schools. It is the most effective method for building godly character by providing godly role models day and night for 9 months each year. It is the only way of reaching the deaf who live too far away from a Church School or whose parents either aren’t interested in transporting them to school each day or aren’t able to afford daily transportation. We praise God that with this model typically more than 90% of the senior students have accepted Christ as their Savior. This model requires a campus with dorms, classrooms, kitchen and dining room, staff lodging and play fields. Volunteer work teams are needed for construction.

The Support Hub for Other Models

Training support – The Residential campus is designed as a training hub, servicing large geographic regions. During the summer and holidays, workers from the other models will stay at the campus for intensive teacher training. We will use the campus for Biblical Theological Training. It will house camps for the deaf and interpreters. The campus has numerous possibilities as a support hub.

Prayer support – We will share with the work team members the need of the deaf in many countries. During the week, the team will pray specifically for the Church School, Church Planting, and Secular Deaf School ministries. The missionaries and nationals will provide specific, up-to-date prayer requests for the work team members. They will target specific cities and countries, specific unsaved deaf, and specific needs for more laborers for the harvest. We trust that this prayer support will continue long after the teams have returned home. We trust that they will share their burden with their churches and that God will raise up much prayer support for all aspects of the ministry.

Financial support – Similarly, as the work team members are made aware of the needs, we trust they will support missionaries, nationals, and students (child sponsors) in other models.

Missionary support – We pray God will use a work team’s time of concentrated service at the campus to call believers to start new Church Schools, to enter more Secular Deaf Schools, and to plant churches for the deaf.