by Key Ministry | Aug 15, 2018 | Church
Holiday clubs at church are so full of potential to be a significant part of growing in faith and in discipleship. I have been involved in holiday clubs, or VBS, weeks since I was a child and as soon as I was too old to be part of a group I began getting involved as a...
by Catherine Boyle | Aug 14, 2018 | Autism, Mental Health
I live in a very multi-cultural neighborhood. Families from every corner of the globe live on my street. Nearly everyone speaks English, or at least enough to get by. Smiles and waves suffice when we don’t know each others’ words. When my children were growing up, if...
by Key Ministry | Aug 13, 2018 | Autism, Challenges, Special Needs Parenting
For this child I prayed; and the Lord has granted my petition made to him. I Samuel 1:27 I remember the first time I laid eyes on my husband.It was at King College in Bristol, Tennessee. We were in the same math class my Sophomore year. He was joking...
by Key Ministry | Aug 10, 2018 | Challenges, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Growth
“They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them.” Daniel 3:27b NIV Until moving to Illinois a few years ago, I had only known fire in tiki-torches,...
by Lamar Hardwick | Aug 9, 2018 | Care and Support, Families, Inclusion, Special Needs Ministry
I have often thought that one of the most interesting stories in the Bible is the story of Jesus interacting with a blind man from the town of Bethsaida. This story is found in the gospel of Mark and is recorded as one of the few times that Jesus had to progressively...