disability ministry weekly round-up {2-16-2012}
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It's Thursday. This usually posts on Mondays. That tells you a little about our week. It's been marvelous and busy and paperwork-y and tiring and refreshing and paradoxical.
The coolest thing about this week? I can't remember another time in my life that has so transformed my faith and increased my trust in God. You know the announcement I made last week? Well, we hadn't even started our home study then. And now it's done, being sent via email to Taiwan today to be translated into Chinese and being sent via express mail today to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services at the Department of Homeland Security with our application for advance processing of orphan petition. (And I may frame it because it says my housekeeping standards are excellent. How many wives and mothers of small children have an official document stating that?)
Oh, and did I mention that we're awaiting word about a funding source for a large portion of our adoption costs? (And by large, I'm talking five figures. I'm talking 75% of the funds we need covered in one donation. Please pray.)
And now, on to the links:
"That lovely, lovely man" I love how this story highlights the way in which God can swap "the minister" and "the one ministered to." (HT: Challies)
7 Simple Steps that Will Help You Keep Volunteers Good and relevant post for what we're working through right now at our church.
Before and After Club: One-Year Reflection This ministry of Northview Church started as a way to help kids with social challenges from various special needs connect with each other, God, and their community, and this is a neat report on what has happened in the past year.
Getting people to see the ability instead of the disability Amen.
Why 'Autism Linked To...' Headlines Don't Tell the Whole Story Useful article in thinking about how the media sometimes (mis)handles research and how we ought to think about new links to conditions like autism.
Books Explore Ministry to The Disabled, Suffering I have only read the first two books here (and highly recommend them), and I look forward to getting the third one.
Beeping Easter Eggs Great guest post on The Inclusive Church about an adaptation made to one church's Easter egg hunt to include children with visual impairments.
I know I've overlooked other links in the busy-ness of this week, so let me know if you've seen anything noteworthy that I should include in my next round-up post! (And please don't be shy if it's a post you wrote, as long as it applies in some way to disability ministry.)
The coolest thing about this week? I can't remember another time in my life that has so transformed my faith and increased my trust in God. You know the announcement I made last week? Well, we hadn't even started our home study then. And now it's done, being sent via email to Taiwan today to be translated into Chinese and being sent via express mail today to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services at the Department of Homeland Security with our application for advance processing of orphan petition. (And I may frame it because it says my housekeeping standards are excellent. How many wives and mothers of small children have an official document stating that?)
Oh, and did I mention that we're awaiting word about a funding source for a large portion of our adoption costs? (And by large, I'm talking five figures. I'm talking 75% of the funds we need covered in one donation. Please pray.)
And now, on to the links:
"That lovely, lovely man" I love how this story highlights the way in which God can swap "the minister" and "the one ministered to." (HT: Challies)
7 Simple Steps that Will Help You Keep Volunteers Good and relevant post for what we're working through right now at our church.
Before and After Club: One-Year Reflection This ministry of Northview Church started as a way to help kids with social challenges from various special needs connect with each other, God, and their community, and this is a neat report on what has happened in the past year.
Getting people to see the ability instead of the disability Amen.
Why 'Autism Linked To...' Headlines Don't Tell the Whole Story Useful article in thinking about how the media sometimes (mis)handles research and how we ought to think about new links to conditions like autism.
Books Explore Ministry to The Disabled, Suffering I have only read the first two books here (and highly recommend them), and I look forward to getting the third one.
Beeping Easter Eggs Great guest post on The Inclusive Church about an adaptation made to one church's Easter egg hunt to include children with visual impairments.
I know I've overlooked other links in the busy-ness of this week, so let me know if you've seen anything noteworthy that I should include in my next round-up post! (And please don't be shy if it's a post you wrote, as long as it applies in some way to disability ministry.)