by Jolene Philo | Jan 27, 2024 | Special Needs Parenting
The lessons I learned while raising a child with EA/TEF have been many and varied. That’s to be expected since our son was born in 1982 with esophageal atresia (EA) and a tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF), two conditions that left him unable to swallow and required...
by Garett Wall | Jan 25, 2024 | Disability Ministry, Podcast, Special Needs Ministry
If you’ve been in the world of disability ministry for any period of time, you’ve almost certainly received questions and encountered some of the confusion from those outside our sphere who don’t understand exactly what we do. In this week’s episode of Key Ministry:...
by Jolene Philo | Jan 22, 2024 | Rare Diagnosis, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Growth
Raising kids with disabilities comes with its own set of challenges and reasons to be grateful. Because this is EA/TEF Awareness Month and our son was born with EA/TEF, my top ten perks of raising a child with disabilities will be slanted in that direction. Years...
by Catherine Boyle | Jan 18, 2024 | Autism, Mental Health, Podcast
In the last part of podcast episode 83, Dr. Stephanie C. Holmes made the point that the world needs all kinds of brains: all kinds of inventors, statesman, politicians, etc, and that a lot of people who have done really big things had neurodiversive brains. We pick up...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | Jan 16, 2024 | Care and Support, Controversies, Disability Ministry
I was approached this past September by some folks with the Institute for Christian Anthropology about helping them develop resources for pastors, church leaders and Christian families addressing issues of identity, gender, and sexuality from a Judeo-Christian...
