Friendship Ministries
Our Mission is to share God’s love with people who have intellectual disability and to enable them to become an active part of God’s family.
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Our Mission is to share God’s love with people who have intellectual disability and to enable them to become an active part of God’s family.
Continuing the legacy of and influence of Francis Schaeffer with new research and findings.
The 5 Stages is a simple tool for describing the journey of disability attitudes experienced by people in relationship with others who have disabilities.
This website provides free resources developed by volunteers from around the globe, that can be used for fun, active summer programming.
The National Empowerment Center maintains a list of consumer-run organizations that encompass the entire state or large parts of states. These organizations can be contacted for consumer support groups or programs in their respective states.
This blog is a creative source for ministry inspiration, especially during special seasons of the church year.
Check out these helpful websites to get a better understanding of child sexual abuse.
On the Church Year Resources page you can access all the resources available to your church for special dates throughout the year.
The "National Behavioral Health Barometer" (Barometer) provides data about key indicators of behavioral health problems including rates of serious mental illness, suicidal thoughts, substance abuse, underage drinking, and the percentages of those who seek treatment for these disorders.
The ADA Legacy Project website is designed to provide news, updates, scheduled events, and information on partners who are preserving disability history of the Americans with Disabilities Act, celebrating its milestones, and educating the public and future generations of advocates.
Depression is the second-leading cause of disability, with slightly more than 4 percent of the world's population diagnosed with it. The map shows how much of the population in each country has received a diagnosis of clinical depression.
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other nondiscrimination laws, most employers must provide "reasonable accommodations" to qualified employees with disabilities.
A partnership between the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) and the Reformed Church in America (RCA) involving pooling resources in an innovative church-planting movement that will spread the gospel by reaching out to people in the places where they live.
The creator of Sibshops, Don Meyer, has started a website for grandparents of kids with special needs.
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.
Check out these helpful websites on the topic of bullying.
Lighthouse International has produced guidelines for print, electronic, and web communication that will help anyone who wants to make their church resources more useful.
Finding resources in a rural setting for people with mental illnesses can be especially challenging. The U.S. based National Association for Rural Mental Health (NARMH) is a professional organization that serves the field of rural mental health.
Medline Plus, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, provides solid medical information about various disabilities including mental illnesses.
This website has a calculator to help people receiving public disability benefits determine how their income, benefits, and health coverage could be affected if they go to work. This calculator works only for people living in Michigan.
RoboBraille is a free, non-commercial provider of document conversions for accessibility.
The stated clerk of classis serves as the official correspondent for the classis. The function of the synodical deputy is to represent the interests of synod in the life or actions of the classis. Resources for both of these can be found on this webpage.
Archival information including recordings, reports, committees, agendas and documents from past synod gatherings.
According to this website's self-description, "American Sign Language (ASL) is the third most common language used in the United States behind English and Spanish and continues to be one of the fastest growing languages of study in the U.S.
The Roxburgh Missional Network works alongside leaders, churches, classes and denominations to face the challenges that face churches today.