by Key Ministry | Oct 2, 2020 | Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Growth
We hike single-file. For a change, I lead the way. I am exhausted, moody, yet eager to soak in what could be the last nice day of autumn. Joel, our youngest son, is in the middle as always, walking slowly, tentatively through the leaves, afraid of tripping on a root....
by Jess Ronne | Sep 9, 2020 | Special Needs Parenting, Special needs siblings, Spiritual Growth
Anger, guilt, anxiety, loneliness, stress and exhaustion. Pick a feeling and a special needs caregiver has experienced it, and not occasionally or seasonally. No, it’s more likely experienced on a very consistent basis, if not a daily one. I know I struggle with...
by Sandra Peoples | Sep 7, 2020 | Autism, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Growth
“Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us …” Heb. 12:1In this marathon of life, we all have...
by Evana Sandusky | Sep 2, 2020 | Down syndrome, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Growth
On a hot summer’s day, my brother walks through a vast field with corn standing taller than he. At a specific spot, he tears off an ear of corn and starts counting the kernels he finds. From samples he pulls, he will then calculate the potential yield for his crop.My...
by John Fela (Felageller) | Aug 28, 2020 | Autism, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Growth
This past April, I was scheduled to be one of the many presenters who would have appeared at Key Ministry’s Inclusion Fusion Live 2020. Like all of my colleagues, I was heartbroken to hear the news that we would not be hosting the conference, due to concerns from the...
by Jolene Philo | Aug 24, 2020 | Hope, Living Life Daily, Spiritual Growth
When life is not as it should be, whether the cause is a global pandemic or a child’s diagnosis, we have a choice to make. As our hearts break and our faith is tested, we have to decide to respond from either a short term or long term perspective.In 1959 my...
