The deaf blogger is a Methodist person and came from the generation of the Methodist back to Warwickshire-Nottinghamshire. The United Kingdom.

The Christ United Methodist Church of the Deaf in Baltimore, Maryland was established in 1895 after Rev. W. M. Ferguson asked Daniel Moylan to serve as a preacher in Bible Study classes at Eutaw Street Methodist Episcopal Mission in 1895. Daniel Moylan was a lay reader back in 1890, but it was not successful for him to become a minister. A year later, the number of Deaf people, including the families and friends grew, and the church decided to established in 1896, which called Methodism Episcopal Mission for the Deaf.  Daniel Moylan continued to teach and conducted the services while the number of Deaf people grew for the next fifteen years. In 1900 and 1908, Daniel finally ordained a deacon and an elder to his parish.

So, who is Daniel Moylan?

Rev. Daniel E. Moylan became deaf around 1872 after struck down with a measle, but he retained some of his hearing and speech ability later on. Daniel attended to the Maryland School for the Deaf at Frederick, Maryland, and he worked at the Maryland School for the Coloured Blind and Deaf in Baltimore, Maryland as a shoemaking teacher after graduating at his school around 1886. During 1890s Daniel went to his old school and taught the catechism to deaf Catholic students. There would be an uncertain record if Daniel’s faith were Catholic or in other religion before turning into the Methodist faith around 1895. He married to a deaf woman – Mattie and they have three hearing children.

An interesting note about Daniel’s work in the missionary. He travelled around the regions such as Waugh Mission near Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C and another in Hagerstown, Maryland and several Southern states where he did the church services in sign language. He visits many parishioners for their needs of help, finding works for them, and taught the parishioners and families to learn sign language in the classes. In his church, there were a large number of Deaf and hearing people came to listen to his preaches and to learn how to do sign language until the number grew too big in 1912. The Eutaw Church building sold and the parish moved to another church building in Schroeder street. Then it was called Christ Methodist Episcopal Church for the Deaf in 1912.

The African-American parishioners and their morning services were in the basement while the white parishioners and their afternoon services in the main church hall of the same building. Remember it was the time of segregation. Rev Daniel Moylan took both services. After Rev. Daniel died after having severed chest pain in 1943, after his death, a new minister had been found and placed African-American people on one side while the other American people on the opposite side of the same building. Louis Foxwell and his members encouraged them to integrate into the same room.

The deaf blogger ordered a book – History of Christ Church of the Deaf, by Leo Yates, Jr., Peggy A. Johnson and the book is available in Amazon.

The next one is the Catholic Church.