by Jolene Philo | Oct 31, 2016 | Special Needs Parenting
In May our daughter, her husband, and their fourteen-month-old moved into the upstairs of the roomy, old farmhouse where my husband and I live. With their arrival our quiet, empty nester lives were dramatically altered. I couldn’t be happier. Over the summer I...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | Oct 30, 2016 | Key Ministry, Mental Health
Bad theology hurts people. Through my experience working with families as a child and adolescent psychiatrist and my involvement with Key Ministry, I’ve come across far too many stories of those who have been hurt badly by the advice and counsel they’ve...
by Emily Colson | Oct 28, 2016 | Autism, Special Needs Parenting
“Max!” I said with the kind of enthusiasm I hoped would be contagious, “We are going to like this new doctor. He has a daughter with autism!”I tried to mask my own nerves, wondering how we would get through the next-day’s appointment in the city. I watched Max for a...
by Gillian Marchenko | Oct 27, 2016 | Adoption, Down syndrome, Living Life Daily, Special Needs Parenting
“How do you deal with the possibility that you could be a ‘forever mom,’ that is, that Polly and Evangeline may never leave home?” a young mom asks me after I finish sharing our family’s story with her MOPS group. I get this question...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | Oct 27, 2016 | Mental Health
In the eighth installment of our series, Ten Strategies for Promoting Mental Health Inclusion at Church, Steve discusses how churches can be the hands and feet of Christ through responding to practical needs of families both inside and outside the church impacted by...
