by Key Ministry | Feb 25, 2020 | Mental Health, Spiritual Development, Strategies
I feel sure that one of the reasons I have neck and shoulder issues is because of the heavy luggage and purses I have carried through the years. One day it finally clicked in my brain that I had to change something, that I needed to learn how to travel light...
by Catherine Boyle | Feb 20, 2020 | Mental Health, Special Needs Ministry
One of the reasons why Illuminate – Inclusion Fusion Live 2020 is the largest disability ministry conference in the United States is because it addresses real life with special needs. And that’s why Key Ministry has assembled more than 60 speakers from across...
by Key Ministry | Feb 18, 2020 | Autism, Care and Support, Church Support, Culture of Life, Families, Hidden Disabilities, Inclusion, Mental Health, Parents
“Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him” – Psalms 127:3 There has never been a day I grieved my children. I do not regret bringing them into this world. I do not doubt God has a precious purpose for them. They are happy, loud, silly,...
by Key Ministry | Feb 13, 2020 | Abuse, Church Support, Mental Health
“Adverse Childhood Experiences” is the new focus of clinical mental health and psychology. At its essence, research has found a high correlation between childhood trauma and environmental instability that leads to numerous mental health, medical, social, academic, and...
by Jenn Soehnlin | Feb 12, 2020 | Mental Health, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Growth
When both of my sons began to receive diagnosis after diagnosis, I continually asked God, “Why?””Why my child? Why both of my children? Why me? Why don’t you heal them? Why is this special needs parenting thing so hard? Why do you feel so far...
by Key Ministry | Feb 10, 2020 | Autism, Mental Health, Special Needs Parenting
Sitting on the bank of a roaring river in the Smoky Mountains, I watch crystal clear water cascade over boulders big as cars and older than time. Smooth as silk, water slides between chutes, plunges into frothy whitewater and slides once more into glacier blue pools....