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Adults with Exceptional Needs (Maria’s story, part 5)

Our church has done many things right in creating a safe and accommodating place for children, including a Plan to Protect® policy, offering to provide workers and they have even offered seminars on children with disabilities. Outside of the children’s programming, though, I know of nothing specifically in place for adults with disabilities except general acceptance.

By |2016-12-21T15:39:21-05:00May 24th, 2013|Church ministries, Stories|

Essential Audio (Maria’s story, part 4)

On the Joni and Friends Web Site I listened to an MP3 by Will and Arlyn Kantz and they really understand our needs. Our family can relate to almost every behavioral situation they spoke about, the challenges families face and even the fears of future challenges like puberty, programming, the workers, the sensory issues, congregational reactions, etc.

By |2016-12-21T15:37:15-05:00May 17th, 2013|Audio, Church ministries|

Support Groups (Maria’s story, part 2)

I think for anything to be successful in fostering ‘belonging’ in a church setting, someone who has a child with a disability needs to be involved. They have ‘been there’ and really understand the needs of the family with a child with a disability. I haven't heard of any other support group quite like this one.

By |2017-01-30T13:34:20-05:00May 3rd, 2013|Guest posts|

Lessons from Katherine

One of the reasons for this site is to draw together some of the resources available on theology and disability. You can find past posts in the resources category. Recently our attention was drawn to a book published in February by Glenda Prins, "Lessons from Katherine" in the Spiritual Struggles series. It is a memoir [...]

By |2016-12-21T15:21:29-05:00April 19th, 2013|Books|

Abilities Ministries

"The Abilities Ministries is a disability rights Christian Ministry that is leading the way in connecting the disabled and Christian Community together in order to mutually respect the rights and choices of people with disabilities to equally participate within the church. The Abilities Ministries is supporting churches in becoming strategic and proactive in reaching out [...]

By |2016-12-20T16:36:07-05:00January 22nd, 2013|Ministries|
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