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4 Ways to Keep Your Marriage Strong When Parenting a Child with Disabilities
Because life with a child/adult child with special needs doesn’t change or age out—long-term caregiving has an effect on our marriage. To prevent our relationship from crumbling, we need to be sure that we don’t let the stress of caregiving override and overwhelm us.
Four Aspects of Perseverance to Help Find Your Ministry Purpose: Podcast Episode 055
If your life includes disabilities, you probably already know that perseverance is needed in different ways. If you sense God stirring you towards ministry in some capacity, here are four aspects of perseverance that can help sharpen your understanding of what perseverance looks like in the midst of disabilities.
3 Lessons I’ve Learned in 20 Years of Marriage
When reflecting on our wedding day, I remember the joy and hope in those two young people. The future was ahead of us. Many plans and dreams filled our minds, but neither of us could imagine the reality to come.
14 Questions to Ask on a Student Intake Form (Plus One I Never Ask): Podcast Episode 054
In this week’s episode, Beth Golik helps ministry leaders tackle another summer project: creating or updating Student Intake Forms.
Creating Individualized Spiritual Plans for Your Ministry Participants: Podcast Episode 053
In this episode, Sandra Peoples will walk you through the process her church uses for creating Individualized Spiritual Plans for their students! It helps keep everyone focused on the main goal for the students when they are with us at church—the gospel!
Strength in Numbers, a Cord of Three, and Belonging in the Church for Adults with Disabilities: Podcast Episode 052
Strength in Numbers is a slogan that not only helped create a winning culture for an NBA team, but it also echoes the message from Scripture in Ecclesiastes 4 where a “cord of three strands is not easily broken.” In this week’s episode, Garett Wall examines how strength in numbers and the cord of three can serve as the foundation for helping your church build a pathway to belonging for adults with disabilities.
Empowering Kids with Disabilities, Part Four: Freedom
In part 4 of her 5-part series on empowering children with disabilities, Jolene Philo shares 4 ways to increase a child’s freedom through independence.
A New Mental Health Support Group Opportunity: Podcast Episode 051
Are you interested in being part of a new Key Ministry initiative? Learn how you can help us create and launch mental health small groups for families with disabilities, in collaboration with Fresh Hope for Mental Health.
Raising Compassionate Typical Siblings
None of us will parent perfectly—so let’s take that pressure off our shoulders! But, we will always teach our children, whether we model life indirectly, as they watch and then model us, or teach directly through instruction.
DATC2023 by the Numbers: Podcast Episode 50
In this week’s episode, Beth celebrates our 50th episode and shares some DATC2023 stats, from geographic breakdown of attendees to number of snacks consumed.