Our Volunteers -- Past and Present

 


 

Muhammad Akram
Patricia Castro
Barbie Thorpe
Clarisha Prater
Chad Metcalf
Renée Buchanan

Heidi Rebeca Rauch

Irene Aldovino

Angélica Briceño





                      
 

Victor Iksar

Regina Csekk

Veronica Izsak

Akim Kapranov

Mirela Ganea

Shinobu Hatanaka

Maari Chappell

Dmitriy Polynikov


The Workers For Jesus and Deaf Friends International are staffed entirely by volunteers.  We have no paid staff or employees.  

Our volunteers are very special people! They come from all over the world and are from many different faiths.  They are all ages.  Some are deaf, some are hearing, some are professional translators, some are retired, some are college students, some are grandparents, and some are children.  They all have one belief in common. They believe that true peace will come to the world when we all share God's gift of friendship.  

WFJ and DFI Director Jeanne Griffin, USA

Special Contributor
:
Stan Griffin, USA


DFI Assistant Director:
Muhammad Akram, PAKISTAN

Assistants:
Michela Innocenti, ITALY
Michelle Fitzpatrick, USA
Marlo Slack, USA
Paige Slack, USA
Saima Khalid, PAKISTAN
Chad Metcalf, USA
Heather Peck, UNITED KINGDOM
Clarisha Prater, USA
Diana Sandon, AUSTRALIA
Barbie Thorpe, CANADA
Patsy Wilcher, USA

Chinese Translators
Rebecca Chuang, SINGAPORE
Ngan-ting Dudek Chan 
Marta Logvyn, UKRAINE
Fiona Tsai, TAIWAN

Dutch Translators:
Sigrid Damen, THE NETHERLANDS
Farida de Lang, THE NETHERLANDS

Lida and Pieter Ouwehand, USA
Willy van Ooij, USA
Claudia C. Rens, THE NETHERLANDS

French Translators:
Renée Buchanan, USA
Yves Capdeboscq, FRANCE
Denis Capart, BELGIUM
Richard Carter
Oumar Dieng, USA
Nick Harrison, ENGLAND
Jeannette Heulin, USA
Lucas Marcel
Isobel Marr, AUSTRALIA
Erika Perry, USA
Jack Speese, USA
Rick Tjia, CANADA

German Translators:
Anka Andrews, USA
Emi Araki
Richard Carter
Heather Kaltinger
Paola Maysen, ITALY
Henrik Schlieker, CANADA
Jack Speese, USA

Hindi Translators
Vikash Agarwal, INDIA
Jayesh K.P., INDIA

Hungarian Translators
Regina Csekk, HUNGARY

Indonesian Translators
Kelvin Wijaya, INDONESIA

Italian Translators:
Maria Grazia Agostoni, ITALY
Tiziana Aiazzi, ITALY
Marzia Archinucci, ITALY
Nicoletta Bindi, ITALY
Rosita Calisto, ITALY
Letizia Carlesi, ITALY
Elena Cassinese, ITALY
Giusy Cristante, ITALY
Sabina Delfrati, ITALY
Stefania Fabrizi, ITALY
Maria Francesca De Stetanis, ITALY
Stefania Fei, ITALY
Chiara Festoso, ITALY
Michela Innocenti, ITALY
Susanna Kuwahara, JAPAN
Paola Maysen, ITALY
Francesca Miscio,  ITALY
Cinzia Pacetto, ITALY
Marco Panti, ITALY
Erika Perry, USA
Roberta Riccardi, ITALY
Elisa Rossini, ITALY
Daniela Sarocchi, ITALY
Damian Satterthwaite-Phillips, USA
Camilla Stevanato,  ITALY
Angela Tozzi, ITALY
Arianna Troilo, ITALY

Japanese Translators:
Emi Araki
Yoshimi Attard, CANADA
Miho Campbell, CANADA
Maari Chappell, JAPAN
Patrick Feeney, USA
Gavin Fryer
Tomio and Chikako Fukumura, USA
Yoshihisa Hanamura, JAPAN
Shinobu Hatanaka, JAPAN
Hiroko
Hayashi, CANADA
Taeko  Kaneta, JAPAN
Shinobu Kinoue, JAPAN
Atsushi Masaki, JAPAN
Francesca Miscio, ITALY
Mami Kambayashi, JAPAN
Mariko Kobayashi, AUSTRALIA
Susanna Kuwahara, JAPAN
Mariko Niizawa Heverly, JAPAN
Yasuji Nojima, JAPAN
Taako Parker, USA
David Petersen, JAPAN
Kazumi Pestka, USA
Mikiko Sakakura, USA
Damian Satterthwaite-Phillips, USA
Chiaki Shiozawa, CANADA
Mihoko Skabelund, USA
Phil Soldini, USA
Radha Sreedhar, JAPAN
Mary Thompson, UNITED KINGDOM
Jina Tuladhar, NEPAL
Patrick Ward

Junko Yamamoto

Polish Translators:
Slawomir Balcerzak, POLAND
Andrzej Janus, USA
Dorota Wadowska, CANADA

Portuguese Translators:
Helena
Almberg, USA
Maria Alice Quartim B. Araujo, BRAZIL
Fabio R. Araujo, BRAZIL
Walter de Castro, BRAZIL
Patricia Castro, BRAZIL
Cristiane Catarino, BRAZIL
Angela Maria Simões Farias, BRAZIL
Ana Honda, BRAZIL
Criztiane Leal, BRAZIL
Volga Press, USA
Cláudia Reali, BRAZIL
Isabel Reis, PORTUGAL
Osmar Santos, UNITED KINGDOM
Cristina Silva, USA
Zalira Silveira, BRAZIL
Aline Violini, BRAZIL

Amy Wilson, USA

Romanian Translators:
Anca-Maria Chircor, ROMANIA
Mirela Ganea, ROMANIA

Russian Translators:
Yury Akimov, RUSSIA
Ian Appleby, UNITED KINGDOM
Olga  Armstrong, USA
Natalia Baryshnikova, RUSSIA
James Brownlee, UNITED KINGDOM

Rasa Buividaviciute, UNITED KINGDOM
Sigrid Damen, THE NETHERLANDS
Vladimir Dubisskiy, CANADA
Tatiana Dudley
Igor Emeliantchik, BELARUS
Elena Fairchild, USA
Natalia Elo, GERMANY
Sergey Fatiy, UKRAINE
Anna Ghalechyan, ARMENIA
Sergey Grebenyuk, UKRAINE
Sergey Grishin, UKRAINE
Victor Iksar, RUSSIA
Veronica Izsak, CANADA
Richard P Jasinski, UNITED KINGDOM
Olga Jimenez, USA

Akim Kapranov, CANADA
Igor Karpikov, BELARUS
Gaiane Khatchatrian, RUSSIA
Alexey Koshkin, RUSSIA
Olga Krukova, RUSSIA
Elina Kulevas, UZBEKISTAN
Galina Labinko, IRELAND
Oleg Lebedev, USA
Vladimir Leonov, RUSSIA
Larissa Levykin, USA
Eugene Lukichov, USA
Tatiana Malychenkova, RUSSIA
Vladislav Madan, MOLDOVA
Olga Manderson, SCOTLAND
Nick McRussian, UKRAINE
Karine Minasyan, ARMENIA

Dovran Mollayev, CANADA 
Marina Nestrugina, RUSSIA

Galina Ovtchinnikova
Andrew Prilipko, UKRAINE
Eugene Pilshchikov, LATVIA
Stanislav Polshyn, USA
Yanna Rachinskaya, USA
Saul Rassadnikov, RUSSIA
Roberta Riccardi, ITALY
Lev Sachs, USA
Osmar Santos, UNITED KINGDOM
Roman Serkinsky, ISRAEL 

Benjamin Sklarz, ISRAEL
John Sowerby, UNITED KINGDOM
Marc B. Taraban, RUSSIA
Vlada Tcherkasova, UKRAINE
Nina Tchernova, AUSTRALIA
Elena Tihaya, AUSTRALIA
Alexander Ushakov, USA
Lev Zaretsky, ISRAEL

Spanish Translators:
Fabio R. Araujo, BRAZIL
Angélica Briceño, PERU
Ale Campa, MEXICO
Pablo Carbajal, ARGENTINA
Cecilia Cruz, USA
María D. Escribano
Mar García-Vicente, SPAIN
Moises Garcia
Idoia Goyeneche, SPAIN
Anabel Martínez, USA
Nora Martinez, USA
Bettina Paganini, USA and ARGENTINA
Jesús Paredes, VENEZUELA
Paz Gómez-Polledo, SPAIN
Heidi Rebeca Rauch, MEXICO
Osmar Santos
Zalira Silveira, USA and BRAZIL
Steven Trott, USA
Patricia Urbano, PERU
Aron Valdez, FRANCE
Lola de Varas, ECUADOR
Eva Vazquez, SWEDEN


Tagalog Translator:
Irene Aldovino,THE PHILIPPINES


Ukrainian Translators:
Vladimir Dubisskiy, CANADA
Olga Gladysheva, UKRAINE
Volodymyr Ivanytsky, LATVIA
Veronica Izsak, CANADA
Aliona Korsunska
Nazar V. Kravtsiv, UKRAINE
Natalia Kudria, UKRAINE
Katya Luniova
Marta Logvyn, UKRAINE
Andrew McRussian, UKRAINE
Tatyana Mollayev, CANADA
Olga Manderson, SCOTLAND
Dmitriy Polynikov, UKRAINE
Leonid Prynada, UKRAINE
Ludmila Thompson, USA
Alexander Ushakov, USA
Anna Yevtushok

Uzbek Translator
TolanboyAkhmadjonov, UZBEKISTAN

Web Designers:
Muhammad Akram, PAKISTAN
Renée Buchanan, USA
Sergey Fatiy, UKRAINE