by Sarah Broady | Aug 26, 2016 | Grief, Hope, Special Needs Parenting
Sometimes, as an attempt to comfort your heart as you are struggling through a new diagnosis, or even years afterward, friends or family might offer consolation by saying something along the lines of, “God chose to give you a child with autism because He knew you were...
by Sandra Peoples | Aug 25, 2016 | Inclusion, Special Needs Ministry
We talk a lot about how churches can bless special-needs families. But have you thought about all the ways special-needs families bless the churches they attend? I can think of four big ways: They remind them one size doesn’t fit all (especially in children and...
by Sandra Peoples | Aug 24, 2016 | Special Needs Parenting
When my husband and I were in seminary, we had a little joke about being able to tell the missionaries from the rest of us. Missionaries were the ones who wore flip flops in January. They spent more time outside in the grass than in the library. If you went to their...
by Kara Dedert | Aug 24, 2016 | Medically Fragile, Special Needs Parenting
In a perfect world, I would be patiently doing many hours of therapy each day with my son and in a perfect world, he would be meeting milestone after milestone. Then there’s reality. Calvin is one of five kids who need me, he is not “catching up”...
by Key Ministry | Aug 23, 2016 | Key Ministry, Mental Health
A month ago, I wrote a post titled Four Reasons Teens Cut to COPE, sharing my own history of self-injury as well as the four most common reasons kids and adults hurt themselves. We do/did it for control, as an obsessive behavior, as punishment, or as an emotional...
