Trudy Field, a well known Christian interpreter, her son Jonathan and his wife Rebecca are all interpreters and are now working together to start a new business to teach Sign Language interpreting.
The business is called Field Interpreter Training and the three interpreters will be teaching the “180 Training Course”. It is a 2-year, part-time course that will allow successful students to register as MRSLI.
It is the first initial interpreter training to be organised in the Yorkshire region.
Go! Sign's Ministry Director, Laurence Banks, has resigned in order to concentrate on his final year of study at the London School of Theology. The new ministry Director wil be Pastor Raymond Abernethy, from Northern Ireland, who has has agreed to take on the role for one year. Raymond is well known and respected within the Deaf Christian community, both in the UK and overseas. He has worked closely with Go! Sign for a number of years.
Deaf Catholic priest, Father Peter McDonough revealed to his congregation at St Joseph's Mission to Deaf People in Salford on Sunday that he had broken his vow of celibacy and that he is leaving the church after confessing he has a four-year-old child.
Hundreds of Deaf and Hearing Friends gathered at Epworth Baptish Church to say farewell and celbrate the life of Peter Orford on Friday 19th June. Peter and his wife Sue have been well known in the Deaf community. Peter had suffered from prostate cancer but to the end he had continued to serve and be involved with the Deaf community. 
