by Lisa Jamieson | Nov 3, 2020 | Church Support, Special Needs Ministry, Spiritual Development
I’ve been thinking a lot about three realities of the human experience lately:We learn through the ways we resonate with each other.We cannot compare our lives, but we sometimes relate to each other.All people want to be understood and feel like they belong...
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 8, 2020 | Mental Health, Special Needs Ministry, Spiritual Development
My husband has advanced dementia. We have had a lot of support from family, friends and our church. People are kind and caring. They want to offer help. I couldn’t manage without them. Everyone I meet is concerned and sympathetic. Many people I meet also want to...
by Key Ministry | Jul 28, 2020 | Church Support, Mental Health, Spiritual Development
Mental illness can be one of the most self-centered ailments there is.By this I do not mean that people who battle mental illness are necessarily self-centered. No, I mean the illness itself consumes our minds in such a way that we become unable to see beyond the...
by Lisa Jamieson | Jul 7, 2020 | Coronavirus, Special Needs Ministry, Spiritual Development
Just a handful of weeks into the pandemic quarantine, I was already starting to take stock of lessons God was teaching me. I was collecting new perspectives about my life as a special needs parent, as a leader in disability ministry and as a person. I was certain to...
by Sandra Peoples | Jun 18, 2020 | Sandra Peoples, Special Needs Ministry, Spiritual Development
As we all make plans to welcome back the students we serve in our special-needs ministries, it’s a great time to take a look at how we can better serve them! Because each child at our church is unique, we have developed ISPs for each one—individualized spiritual...
