Bob Ayres, BU ’92, recently graduated from Beeson Divinity School at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, with a Doctorate of Ministry. Ayres is the national director of Deaf Teen Quest, a ministry of Youth For Christ USA. His doctoral dissertation was Twenty-first Century Deaf Church: A Strategic Initiative for Deaf Ministry within the Context of a Secular Society. He is also the author of a textbook used in several ministry training programs, Deaf Diaspora: The Third Wave of Deaf Ministry.