by Stephen Grcevich MD | May 10, 2020 | Advocacy, Inclusion
Ever since we started contemplating all the implications of the coronavirus, I’ve been wrestling with the impact of health and safety restrictions on the incredible progress the church has made in disability inclusion over the last ten years. Two months ago,...
by datc3 | May 3, 2020 | Key Ministry, Mental Health
The Barna Group surveyed pastors in mid-April regarding their personal mental and emotional health and the mental health of their congregations. The most significant finding from the survey was that only 30 percent of pastors reported feeling...
by Sandra Peoples | Apr 30, 2020 | Sandra Peoples, Special Needs Ministry, Strategies
After six weeks of social distancing and taking so many extra precautions to keep ourselves safe, the discussions now have shifted to the topic of re-entry. Our churches are praying and planning about what’s to come in the summer and beyond. But our ministries...
by datc3 | Apr 14, 2020 | Church Support, Coronavirus, Inclusion
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” James 1: 27This verse seems so appropriate at the moment. In the UK, where I live, there are...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | Apr 12, 2020 | Key Ministry, Spiritual Development
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve posted prayer requests on Facebook for a young single mom who was critically ill and near death with a respiratory distress syndrome like that seen with COVID-19, and more recently, a young father who contracted the virus working as...
