disability ministry weekly round-up {11-9-11}
/
My apologies that this is a little late! I'm excited about this week's round-up of links, and I hope you'll find them helpful too as you think about how you can do life and share Christ with people with disabilities in your church and community.
Registration is LIVE for volunteers and families for our December 10th respite care event. Check it out here! If you're in the Raleigh area and have a child with special needs, we would love to have you there. Feel free to share the link with friends, neighbors, and others - we want the word out! You don't have to have any connection to Providence in order to attend. Let me know if you have any questions!
Inclusion Fusion will be accessible online - all the videos and notes - through DECEMBER 3, so don't worry if you didn't get to watch them all last weekend!
Usually, I reserve these articles for the list at the end, but I want to call special attention to what Green Trails United Methodist Church in Missouri is doing. Instead of creating a completely separate service for people with special needs, they tightened up the typical service, shortening it and making some other changes. The feedback has been positive - from those with and without special needs. They are also started a sensory-friendly service as another option, but their efforts to welcome those with disabilities - from service changes to trainings to the use of Boardmaker - is much more comprehensive and inclusive than most churches.
Churches welcoming people with disabilities and otherwise engaging with the special needs community:
Registration is LIVE for volunteers and families for our December 10th respite care event. Check it out here! If you're in the Raleigh area and have a child with special needs, we would love to have you there. Feel free to share the link with friends, neighbors, and others - we want the word out! You don't have to have any connection to Providence in order to attend. Let me know if you have any questions!
Inclusion Fusion will be accessible online - all the videos and notes - through DECEMBER 3, so don't worry if you didn't get to watch them all last weekend!
Usually, I reserve these articles for the list at the end, but I want to call special attention to what Green Trails United Methodist Church in Missouri is doing. Instead of creating a completely separate service for people with special needs, they tightened up the typical service, shortening it and making some other changes. The feedback has been positive - from those with and without special needs. They are also started a sensory-friendly service as another option, but their efforts to welcome those with disabilities - from service changes to trainings to the use of Boardmaker - is much more comprehensive and inclusive than most churches.
Churches welcoming people with disabilities and otherwise engaging with the special needs community:
- one holding an art show to benefit another organization's program for pre-teens with autism spectrum disorders
- a pastor who makes pottery and donates a tenth of the income to charities, including a speech therapy center where his son has been treated
- a church that held a sensory-friendly Halloween event for kids with special needs
- a church that is briefly mentioned in a story about individuals with autism, one of whom attends a church's friendship group
- a church hosting a day program for adults with developmental disabilities