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Meet the members
Rosie Addis (Core Team Member)
Beccy Field (Core Team Member)
Married to Jonathan!
Jonathan Field (Core Team Member)
Married to Beccy...!
Debbie Harvey (Core Team Member)
Debbie works as an Interpreter and a Chaplain in Cornwall.
She says: "Signs of God brings the two things I love most together - interpreting and theology...and all with a great bunch of people!" Oh, and "I go shopping regularly, but only 'sacrificially' so I look nice for my husband!"
Ros Hunt (Core Team Member)
Ros is the Child Protection Officer for Signs of God
Jo Lindley (Core Team Member)
Catherine Moxon (Core Team Member)
Di Phaisey (Core Team Member)
Mark Smith (Core Team Member)
Mark Smith is Chaplain among Deaf People in the diocese of Derby. Mark is married to Anna and his interests include paragliding, gardening, home winemaking and cooking. He is also a magician and fire-eater!
Signs of God has contributed a great deal to my own development over the years. Its nice to be part of the team and be able to put something back.
Rachel Smith (Trustee, Treasurer)
Rachel is a freelance Sign Language Interpreter working mostly in South Wales. She is Treasurer and Trustee of Signs of God. She is married to Mike and has 3 children which together with her work for Signs of God keeps her very busy. It is her desire to interpret well in Christian situations that has led Rachel to considerable personal study and research and she is keen to encourage others to learn more about the Bible and improve their interpreting skills.
My original calling to interpreting came through reading Romans 10:12 which spoke to me as: How can Deaf People know more about God without people willing to use Sign Language, and how can those people use Sign Language well without being taught and how can they communicate God's word without knowledge?
Jerry Hanifin (Core Team Member)
Gill Behenna (Administrator)
Gill Behenna is a Church of England minister working with the Deaf community in Bristol. She is also a freelance interpreter. As the Administrator of Signs of God she is responsible for the bookings, phone calls and emails.
"Interpreting in Church can be some of the most challenging and difficult. It includes poetry and music, sometimes drama and often very complex language. I am so glad that Signs of God is helping people to prepare for this very important work."
Penny Beschizza (Trustee, Chair)
Penny Beschizza is currently a part-time Lecturer with Deaf Students and Learning Support in Southwark College. She also teaches BSL at all levels in other venues. She had worked in the City Lit during the '90s. In Christian BSL work, she was in the 'Christians Communicating' weekends and since 1998 worked with Signs of God. She used to be in the Deaf Christian Fellowship in London & UK during the '70s and '80s. She is active in Deaf Equality issues and policies, believing in Deaf leadership within God's Kingdom as well as in society.
Trudy Field (Trustee, Secretary)
Trudy lives near Scunthorpe and works as a freelance interpreter. She is a Fellow of the Association of Sign Language Interpreters and received this recognition partly because of her work in the area of training interpreters working in Christian settings. She is well known as a tutor and interpreter at various workshops and events involving Signs of God teams. She is especially keen that people should constantly be evaluating their signing and interpreting in order to improve the quality of access for Deaf people to Christian events. Trudy is a trustee and the secretary of Signs of God.
Ali Fuller (Core Team Member)
Sarah Haynes (Trustee)
Sarah works part time as a teacher of sign language interpreting at the University of Bristol and as a freelance interpreter. Sarah is one of our Trustees.
Tj Jobson (Core Team Member)
Esther Maycock (Core Team Member)
Esther lives in Surrey and works as a Deaf interpreter for television, at Red Bee Media in London. She also designed Signs of God logos for Summer School and Christian interpreter Network (CIN). She is one of the Deaf Youth 4 Christ (DY4C) leaders and loves doing worship, sports and travelling to many places!
I love helping at some of the workshops at Signs of God and seeing people developing their signing skills better and better!
Anna Smith (Core Team Member)
Married to Mark!
Janice Silo (Core Team Member)
Raymond Abernethy (Core Team Member)
Raymond provides our BSL clips on the website, in his unique informal style. Raymond is a Church Pastor, Sign Language and Interpreter Trainer and also works as a Deaf Interpreter for television in Belfast. Can you spot all the signs from his Northern Ireland BSL dialect?!
Christopher Williamson (Core Team Member)
Roma Parrick (Core Team Member)
Roma is a freelance BSL/English Interpreter. Having qualified as a mature student, and being aware of the challenges faced by all BSL learners, she has a passion for encouraging and enabling students of all levels and abilities on their individual journeys towards becoming proficient interpreters and presenters of BSL within Christian settings.
