Disability Concerns
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Posted on November 15, 2012, 1:45 pm
Topics: Accessibility
A church that makes its building accessible has taken an important step toward accessibility for people with disabilities. But leaders need to ask whether their communication and programs are accessible too. This single page collects many resources for changing our language, power point slides, meetings, and worship services so that people with various disabilities can participate more fully.
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Posted on November 12, 2012, 2:08 pm
Topics: Getting Started
Once costing $25 and now a free download, Bethesda's manual, Building a Developmental Disability Ministry, guides leadership teams through all the various ministry-building stages: from planning to implementation, evaluation and ongoing ministry development.
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Posted on November 12, 2012, 1:24 pm
Topics: Caring
Churches can and should support men and women who sacrificed themselves for our countries. Frequently mental health issues are one component in the lives of veterans with disabilities, but pastors and church leaders don't always know how best to minister to these men and women.
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Posted on October 23, 2012, 5:19 pm | 1 comment
Topics: Advocacy
It must have been a decision made out of desperation – as desperate as the new mother who leaves her child in a basket on the steps of a social service agency. In this case, the “child” left to another’s care is 21-years-old.
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Posted on October 17, 2012, 10:05 am | 2 comments
Topics: Advocacy
The CRC Synod encouraged churches to celebrate Disability Week October 15 through 21. Why would one want to “celebrate” Disability Week? Here are several good reasons.
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Posted on October 9, 2012, 11:35 am | 4 comments
Topics: Safe Church Team, Sexual Abuse
What do you think churches should do to provide a safer environment for individuals with disabilities?
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Posted on October 4, 2012, 1:05 pm
Topics: Caring
In our lifetimes, one out of every four of us will experience a diagnosable mental illness, and the stigma around mental illness causes many to suffer in silence. This webinar will help faith leaders understand mental illness.
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Posted on October 3, 2012, 8:09 am | 1 comment
Topics: Worship
We are a community where people with special needs—along with those whose needs are not so obvious—work together in leading worship and Bible studies, providing pastoral care, etc. We never “dumb down,” but instead find concrete ways to bring the words of Christ alive and apply them to our various life situations.
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Posted on September 24, 2012, 9:26 pm | 2 comments
Topics: Disability Concerns
On September 23 Alberta television stations featured a news item about a young lady who 'climbed' to the top of an 8000-foot mountain in Camrose, Alberta. What made Kuen Yang newsworthy is that she is a quadriplegic. Although she has enough movement in her hands to operate a joystick (to control e.g. a computer) and self-propel her wheelchair, she is totally dependent on others for personal care.
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Posted on September 18, 2012, 3:22 pm
Topics: Accessibility
Funding from Canadian government for accessibility projects includes churches. Up to $50K. Hurry! Deadline for application is October 5.
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Posted on September 18, 2012, 8:26 am
Topics: Accessibility
Churches that are serious about hospitality well think carefully and intentionally about the barriers to people with disabilities that are in their own architecture, communication, program, and attitude. A webinar Wednesday will give ideas for how to do that.
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Posted on September 12, 2012, 8:33 am
Topics: Accessibility
If we hope to have learnt something from the Paralympics, this truth has to be it. Only when the word disability is seen as including ‘ability’ will society have understood what it means.
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Posted on September 12, 2012, 7:46 am
Topics: Caring
They both live in good group homes that are clean, caring, and provide various evening activities. Their group home brings them to church on Sundays. What is missing from this picture?
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Posted on September 5, 2012, 3:08 pm
Topics: Church Education
This fine book by Barbara Newman just got better with the revised edition just out.
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Posted on September 4, 2012, 10:56 am | 2 comments
Topics: Caring
The language of creation replaces, and transcends, the language of loss, just as it does in life. The pastoral care-giver's question is not, “What have you lost? But “What’s it like?” and “What’s happening?”
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