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The visuals in a worship space work together to communicate our faith values and our awareness of the triune God. These resources reflect on the creative and technical sides of creating vivid visuals for worship.
Meet the Disability Concerns regional advocates for each classis in Canada in our re-imagined Canadian content newsletter.
Cara Milne's book, Noticed, Known, and Missed, focuses on building community for people with disabilities.
Meet Cara Milne, our Disability Concerns Regional Advocate for Classis Alberta South and Saskatchewan.
Join Disability Concerns Canada every week in October for our 2021 annual training event. Residents of Canada and the U.S. are welcome to attend.
Here are some resources that Canadians can use in advocating to protect the conscience of healthcare workers when there are requests for assisted death (MAID).
Individuals share their stories about the unique social challenges and limited opportunities that come with being Black, Indigenous, or a person of color living with a disability.
In one Disability Concerns workshop exercise, participants are asked to identify a number of personal characteristics that society values, including ones related to ethnicity and ability. Through this, we can begin addressing systems that privilege some but not others.
Angela has lived with multiple sclerosis for 35 years, yet how she experienced life with MS was a choice.
Yolanda shares her experience of living with an invisible disability within a culture and a community that does not understand her diagnosis or how it will affect her life.
Access to care, support, and the vaccine over the course of the pandemic has been a greater challenge for people living on the margins of our society. Churches must take steps to educate people and eliminate these inequalities.
Being Black and having a visible disability (cerebral palsy) has meant that Marcus has lost out on opportunities simply because people judge his appearance without knowing anything about him.
Dr. Watts has seen first hand the significant challenges of unconscious bias that many Black students have had to deal with and the devastating effects they can have.
We encourage everyone is who is connected to the disability community to be a part of this event!
These short reflections provide a glimpse into my wife’s extraordinary response to adversity.
Disability Concerns has developed a book club resource based on John Swinton's book, Finding Jesus in the Storm: The Spiritual Live of Christians with Mental Health Challenges.
During the pandemic, people with disabilities found that some barriers to participation actually were removed. The articles in this issue tell a few of those stories of unexpected access.
Out of adversity grew a larger sense of community.
We encourage all churches to recognize Disability Awareness Sunday this October to demonstrate that all members of their congregation are valued. Find resources here!
Raising a Rare Girl is the true story of a family's journey with their daughter who was diagnosed with a rare disease and what they learned along the way.
This article outlines the role of the church advocate and provides the steps from considering being a church advocate to working within the role.
Regional Advocates are invaluable to our work in Disability Concerns. Interested in learning more about the role? This roadmap should provide you with the answers!
During the month of November, a group of us met to discuss Courage for Caregivers: Sustenance for the Journey. Here are some of our thoughts and takeaways!
Anxiety and depression are rising in the turbulent wake of COVID-19. Read about a free, downloadable study series that Disability Concerns has available to help churches discuss depression and mental illness.
Traveling with a disability can be challenging, if not difficult, and memories of such adventures can be instructive, hurtful, hilarious, and more. Read about some of these adventures!