Michèle Gyselinck is a regional advocate for Disability Concerns. She lives with schizophrenia and expresses herself creatively through painting. Her art is featured in our Summer 2021 Breaking Barriers Newsletter.
Cassie leads worship for First Reformed Church. She wrote this song with a hymn-like structure with these core themes: solitude, community, and mission.
Writing free-verse poems during the first year following his wife's death was cathartic for Ivan. He has shared a few of his poems in the Summer 2021 Breaking Barriers Newsletter.
Be encouraged by these creative expressions shared by residents of the Brothers and Sisters Homes in Holland, MI.
Giving Well is the pastor's source for stewardship tips, resources, and inspiration.
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.
Generosity Today is a quarterly publication for your church, designed to inspire generosity and educate your congregation about smart and powerful ways they can support your church beyond the offering plate.
Help generous believers give more effectively to your local church ministry by distributing Generosity Today to your congregation.
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.
흑인, 원주민 또는 유색인종으로 태어나거나 장애를 가지고 산다는 것은 개인에게 큰 도전을 안겨주고 사회적 기회 또한 줄어듭니다. 이번 호 저자들은 인종과 장애가 만나는 지점에서 그들의 이야기를 들려줍니다.
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.
Giving Well is the pastor's source for stewardship tips, resources, and inspiration. The March 2021 Issue is now available!
If you’re engaged in ministry with children, you won't want to miss this newsletter!
Durante el largo periodo de aislamiento impuesto durante la pandemia del virus corona, las personas con discapacidades vieron que algunos impedimentos para la participación fueron en realidad eliminadas. Los artículos en esta edición nos narran algunas historias de accesos inesperados.
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.
'Giving Well' is the pastor's source for stewardship tips, resources and inspiration.
장기간 고립되고 격리된 코비드-19 감염증 사태는, 한편으로는 일부 장애인의 참여를 막는 장벽을 제거해 주었습니다. 이번호에서는 예기치 않은 접속에 대한 몇 가지 이야기를 나눕니다.