Randy Dignan was born August 28, 1975, in St. Augustine, FL to deaf parents. He also has a younger hearing brother and a younger deaf sister. After growing up in multiple churches and being baptized several times, Randy was saved at Victory Baptist Church in Pennsylvania on July 17, 1994, at the age of eighteen. He had just finished his first year of college football on scholarship after being an all-star, all-state, MVP and winning two state football championships in his junior and senior years of high school.

Two months after he was saved, he attended Bible college where he met the love of his life, Janelle. Janelle learned sign language and is fluent. They took on Bible Baptist Church in May of 1998, while Randy was only twenty-two years old, having been saved only four years. The church had only twenty-eight voting members that night.

In the summer of 2005, they built a new seven hundred-seat auditorium. In the summer of 2022, they completed construction of a new complex including a gymnasium for outreach. God grew the church in a miraculous way!

In July of 2024, after pastoring in Missouri for twenty-six years, he accepted the call to pastor the Bible Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Arkansas. The church has a large Christian school, a Bible college, and a recently started Deaf ministry that is growing rapidly!

Randy travels nationally and internationally preaching to deaf, teens, youth conferences, missions conferences and other camps and revivals. He also had a thirty-minute TV program called “The Listening Heart” in English and in American sign language that aired four seasons worldwide weekly on CTN (Christian Television Network) and on YouTube! He has received two honorary doctorates including one most recently from a Bible College in the Philippines. He now has two published books: “Heart Language” and “Family DOvotionals.” He also has very popular vlogs on many social media venues especially Facebook.

However, Randy’s favorite part of life is being husband to Janelle and daddy to Briella, Rayana, Grant, and Clara. His family travels with him and sings before he preaches in America and overseas. Randy loves Jesus, his family, his church, and has a special burden for the deaf and teenagers. He has a passion for the Gospel of Jesus Christ which is evident in his preaching, and he wants all to know and receive the Good News.