by Key Ministry | Oct 14, 2020 | Coronavirus, Special Needs Parenting
We recently had to make an important choice: back to school or not? This is a tough decision being faced by families all over the world, and each has its own pros and cons to be weighed. In the special needs world it is a particularly challenging subject.Nick...
by Jolene Philo | Sep 28, 2020 | Church, Coronavirus, Special Needs Parenting
This text was the first in a long thread to lighten my spirit. The thread began the day before when a couple in our church small group sent devastating news about the death of their grand-baby. Our small groups members rallied around them. We sent encouraging words,...
by Skip McDonald | Sep 15, 2020 | Coronavirus, Mental Health, Spiritual Development
I’m willing to guess that everyone on the planet has experienced life off kilter in some way this year. Wow! 2020! A year we won’t easily forget. Life right now is hard for so many, feeling messy and downright immobilizing. Besides a pandemic and racial...
by Key Ministry | Sep 4, 2020 | Coronavirus, Mental Health, Special Needs Parenting
Full disclosure: I sat down to work on this blog with absolutely no clue what I was going to write about. I have been numb with depression lately. Except on those days when I am energized by anger. Neither are exactly helpful for stirring up the creative juices. Some...
by Key Ministry | Aug 31, 2020 | Coronavirus, Mental Health, Special Needs Parenting
“When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” Mark 5:27-28We’ve had to adjust a lot of expectations around here this year—and that’s an...
by Lamar Hardwick | Jul 9, 2020 | Church Support, Coronavirus, Special Needs Ministry
Earlier this year we came face to face with a global pandemic that has rocked the world ten times over. The rise of COVID-19 now seems like ages ago, but the reality is that for most churches the impact of COVID-19 came around the month of March. Many churches had to...
