by Sandra Peoples | Dec 15, 2016 | Parents, Special Needs Ministry
“Are you going to put a tree up this year?” my friend and fellow special-needs mom asked. “Well, probably not. James doesn’t always do well with the extra sensory stimulation. And I can’t put wrapped gifts under it ahead of time because...
by Sandra Peoples | Oct 20, 2016 | Families, Parents, Special Needs Ministry
There’s really just two things I want from the church we attend: I want them to keep James safe and I want them to love him. We visited a new church last weekend for the first time. We had communicated with the pastor and the children’s director in the...
by Sandra Peoples | Oct 13, 2016 | Families, Parents
In the months after we got James’s autism diagnosis, only one person offered to pray for us, and she was a visitor at our church. The words she spoke over my family brought me to tears and I’ll never forget that gift. To know she cared. To know she saw us...
by Sandra Peoples | Jul 14, 2016 | Parents, Special Needs Ministry
We walked up to the registration area for the children’s classes one Sunday at the church we were visiting with our boys. The woman there asked questions to figure out where the boys should go and typed the answers into her computer.“What are their names? When are...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | Jun 19, 2016 | Families, Parents
Several years ago, an interesting study was presented at the International Society For Autism Research suggesting that over 30% of fathers of teens and young adults with autism experience symptoms of depression significant enough to warrant clinical...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | Mar 28, 2016 | ADHD, Autism, Families, Key Ministry, Parents, Resources
It’s not unusual to attend presentations at disability ministry conferences where statistics on the impact of specific disabilities are quoted or repeated and accepted as fact, without citing the original source of the research. I’ve been guilty myself of citing or...
