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Posted on May 20, 2013, 10:00 am
Topics: Accessibility
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other nondiscrimination laws, most employers must provide "reasonable accommodations" to qualified employees with disabilities. This page from the U.S. Department of Labor provides a variety of suggestions to employers for accommodating employees with psychiatric disabilities.
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Posted on January 28, 2013, 4:38 pm
Topics: Youth Worker Events/Training
My wife, daughter and I have just returned from Atlanta where we, along with 60,000 young adults, attended the 2013 Passion Conference. We have been volunteering at Passion since 2005 and it is so exciting to see so many young men and women passionately worshipping God with a desire to serve Him on their campus and in their churches. Experiencing all of this at Passion, I long for my youth back home to also have this kind of passion for Christ
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Posted on November 19, 2012, 7:00 am
Topics: Global Mission
For the last few years CRWRC, continuing as World Renew, and the Office of Social Justice and Hunger Action (OSJ) have teamed up to offer Advent devotions. The concept is: people who are working, hoping, and praying everyday for justice might have some inspiration for the rest of us while we all wait to celebrate the birth of our Lord. This year, we are offering the advent series again and I would like to give all of you a behind the scenes look--a preview of what to expect.
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Posted on October 1, 2012, 8:00 am
Topics: Missional Church
Now that we know the theory, what does this look like in practice? How do we take action on immigration?
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Posted on July 3, 2012, 9:01 am
Topics: Caring
Deacons who serve well work hard at connecting with members of the congregation, organizing ministry, and finding appropriate resources. This final installment on deacons and people with disabilities suggests ideas for ministry and provides some resources to implement those ideas.
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Posted on June 26, 2012, 2:52 am
Deacons are catalysts for change and it's only natural that that would include working for justice in our churches for people with disabilities. Join us for Part 3 of our 4 part series exploring the connectedness between Disability Concerns and Deacons.
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Posted on June 12, 2012, 2:19 am | 1 comment
People with disabilities are often marginalized in our communities and our churches. Join Mark and myself over the next four weeks as we explore how what disabilities are, what they might look like in our midst, and how Deacons can be a catalyst for justice for people with disabilities.
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Posted on April 17, 2012, 2:46 am | 2 comments
Topics: Community
As the church we have the responsibility to act justly - yet we often shy away from complex justice issues. In Canada, a new initiative is seeking truth and reconciliation for those Aboriginal persons and communities that have been affected by attending residential schools. How should we respond as individuals, churches and a denomination?
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Posted on November 8, 2011, 11:08 am | 25 comments
Topics: Caring
Recently, Max Lucado published a book which included a devotion with reflections on disability and disease called "We Shall Be Like Him." Although he intends to encourage the reader, the language used and assumptions made in the devotional diminish people with disabilities.
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Posted on October 10, 2011, 2:31 pm
Topics: Advocacy
Some people may wonder what it would mean to “celebrate” disability week, because they believe that disabilities are nothing to celebrate. However, we do have reason to celebrate the people in our congregations who live with disabilities.
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Posted on October 3, 2011, 4:19 pm
Topics: Accessibility
James Soliday, a former employee of 7-Eleven who has 95 percent hearing loss, managed several stores effectively for many years, but was terminated, it seems, because a new supervisor was not willing to accommodate for his hearing loss as his supervisors had in the past.
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Posted on September 26, 2011, 10:20 am
Topics: Advocacy
This page on the Diaconal Ministries Canada website provides ideas and resources for deacons in their ministry of justice with people with disabilities.
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Posted on July 1, 2011, 11:24 am | 2 comments
Topics: Advocacy
If we are serious about our mission as God's agents of renewal in society, our efforts at eliminating injustice, mitigating poverty, and helping people to become self-sustaining need to start with people with disabilities. If every anti-poverty effort, every development initiative, every benevolence committee in every CRC in North America began with the question, "How will this affect people with disabilities?" our work would be transformed dramatically for the better.
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Posted on June 23, 2011, 1:33 pm
Topics: Advocacy
In this entry on the ThinkChristian blog, Mark Stephenson challenges the Christian community to be a voice of advocacy for individuals with disabilities, to create housing options that meet the needs of our brothers and sisters with intellectual disabilities and to foster a community where everybody belongs and everybody serves.
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Posted on June 21, 2011, 5:46 pm
Topics: Advocacy
Any congregation that is serious about hospitality and serious about justice must recognize that disability isn’t about those people over there, it is about us, and it affects nearly every aspect of church life (as well as society).
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