by Sandra Peoples | Dec 7, 2023 | Church Support, Disability Ministry, Podcast
Reverse inclusion is a class designed for teens and young adults with disabilities that invites typical teenagers and young adults in for the purpose of friendship. It’s for teens like my son James who wouldn’t enjoy being part of our youth group. That environment...
by Joanna French | Jun 20, 2023 | Autism, Disability Ministry, Special Needs Ministry
I have been there. The year was 2013, and I stepped foot in a church with my children for the first time since my youngest was born. Both of my boys were toddlers, but they were—and, of course, still are—autistic. This church was ill-prepared for the disabled. Their...
by Key Ministry | Jun 27, 2019 | Mental Health, Spiritual Development
In the summer of 2006, I was in a Master’s level class on spiritual formation, working on my Masters in Family Ministry. The class talked about our ability to facilitate ways for people to draw closer to God. Initially the conversation was about how to do prayer...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | Aug 26, 2018 | Key Ministry, Mental Health
As a child and adolescent psychiatrist, I frequently encounter parents and skeptics who freely share their opinions that much of the reported crisis in children’s mental health is fabricated…a marketing scheme of the pharmaceutical industry, a consequence of poor...
by Cindi Ferrini | Jan 24, 2017 | Families, Key Ministry, Leadership, Special Needs Ministry
His diagnosis was still as fresh as the day we heard it three years earlier. Now, at age 5 I continued in the throngs of potty training for the 3rd year. (Not 3rd week, 3rd year.) So when asked that question from someone at my church, I spared not a breath in saying,...
