This work is a team effort.
Interpreters, churches, pray-ers and givers — every person who joins this mission extends its reach. Here are three honest, practical ways to be part of it.
Volunteer your hands and your time
Are you an accredited Auslan interpreter, a student working toward accreditation, or someone who simply wants to serve? We regularly need interpreters for services and events, helping hands for training days, and people with administration, design or technical skills. Volunteers are the engine of this charity.
Partner as a church or organisation
Partner churches host training days, open their services to interpreted ministry, and help us reach communities we could never reach alone. Partnering organisations book our inclusion courses and champion accessible practice in their own networks. Partnership can be as simple as one conversation.
Pray and give
We are a faith ministry, and we mean that: prayer sustains this work. And because professional interpreting and training have real costs, financial gifts keep our services within reach for people and small churches who could never otherwise afford them. Every gift, large or small, is applied directly to our charitable purposes.
Inclusion changes both sides of the room.
When a church adds an interpreter, something unexpected happens: the hearing congregation changes too. People begin to notice who has been missing. Songs are chosen more thoughtfully. Greetings become warmer. The whole community grows.
That is why we say inclusion is not charity in the old sense — it is the church, and the community, becoming whole. And it is why the people who volunteer, partner and give with us so often tell us they received more than they gave.
“You do not need to know Auslan to help. You only need to believe that everyone deserves to be included — and be willing to act on it.”The Signs Ministries team