by Key Ministry | Apr 24, 2019 | Autism, Challenges, Special Needs Parenting
For the Lord will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being caught. Proverbs 3:26When my 17 year old son Charlie was about five, I helped him in so many different ways. At this point in our autism journey, we were really just trying to survive. I had a...
by Jolene Philo | Apr 22, 2019 | Challenges, Living Life Daily, Special Needs Parenting
The day after Easter.The day after we celebrate Christ’s empty tomb.The day after the celebration is a different sort of day.On the day after Easter, parents often struggle to connect the dots between serving a risen Savior and caring for kids with special...
by John Fela (Felageller) | Apr 12, 2019 | Autism, Challenges, Special Needs Parenting
Last October I presented at a special needs ministry conference in Kansas City. This conference attracted speakers and presenters from all over the country, many of them from Key Ministry. I was chatting with one of my fellow writers, Sarah Broady, and a couple of...
by Key Ministry | Apr 3, 2019 | Autism, Challenges, Special Needs Parenting
Living in denial ain’t the way to go.Yes, denial is one of the five stages of grief, introduced back in 1969 by psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, but if we stay too long in the “this isn’t happening” stage the result may be a bigger disaster.Case in point: The...
by Joe and Cindi Ferrini | Mar 18, 2019 | Challenges, Special Needs Parenting
I decided to wear my oldest pair of tennis shoes. When putting them on I noticed an area by my right big toe that had begun to show a lot of wear, but I hadn’t noticed the full extent of that. Walking through puddles and in the rain, I began to notice that my right...
by Jonathan McGuire | Mar 13, 2019 | Challenges, Special Needs Parenting
It was 12:30 in the morning and I was lying in bed, wide awake. I had managed to fall asleep for a few minutes but for some reason woke up. Sleep did not come, so I finally went downstairs, made a cup of tea, went into my home office and got to work. I knew I would...
