Outline for Sharing Time and the Children's Sacrament Meeting Presentation, 2006 in ASL

Posted April 21st, 2006 by Christopher Phillips
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The full title of this new DVD is Outline for Sharing Time and the Children's Sacrament Meeting Presentation, 2006. "I Will Trust in Heavenly Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ—Their Promises Are Sure," sign language and it is available as item number 2600201 from the Church Distribution Center for $4.50. You can order the Sharing Time DVD online or call the Church Distribution Phone Number: 1-800-537-5971

Before you decide that this isn't for you because you don't have anyone who uses American Sign Language in your primary or you aren't even in primary, take a moment to look at what the DVD contains:

  • Sign Language Helps
    General information on American Sign Language. For example: word order in ASL is different from English and facial expressions are an important part of conveying a message.
  • Songs: Adult Signing
    An adult signing each of the 2006 Sharing Time songs:
    • Scripture Power
    • I Know My Father Lives
    • Follow the Prophet
    • Did Jesus Really Live Again?
    • Holding Hands Around the World
    • Dearest Children, God is Near You
    • Tell Me, Dear Lord
    • Search, Ponder, and Pray
  • Songs: Children Singing
    Children singing the same songs listed above
  • The Alphabet and Numbers
    How to sign the alphabet and the numbers 1-10 in American Sign Language
  • Sign Language Instruction for Songs
    This section goes through each song one phrase at a time. After watching each phrase you can repeat the phrase, go the the previous or next phrase or receive some more specific instruction on each sign contained in that phrase- fantastic.
  • Primary Song Worksheet
    This section gives instructions on how to access PDF files on the DVD from a Mac or PC that give the ASL word order of each of the songs compared to the English word order.

There are similar DVD's or videocassettes available for previous year's Sharing Time and Children's Sacramant Meeting Presentation also available from the Distrubtion Center. You can find them by going to www.ldscatalog.com and typing the numbers 02010 into the "Quick Catalog Search" box on the left and press Go. The list of search results will bring up a programs going back as far as 1994.

Does anyone have experience using these in your ward or branch?

I have used the ASL sharing

On June 10th, 2006 Shari Day (not verified) says:
I have used the ASL sharing time songs dvd in our sharing time even though we don't have any children with hearing impairment. The signing is very interesting to the children and very many of the signs are helpful and easy to understand. I find many of the signs, especially reguarding Heavenly Father, and Jesus Christ very moving and help us to think in a deeper and more meaningful way. My favorite sign is for "Hosanna" and "Hallelujah". What a joyful gesture!