by Shannon Blosser | Dec 12, 2023 | Autism, Church Support, Spiritual Development
My family has a running joke that I am the epitome of Clark Griswold. I have the tendency to get myself injured in some outlandish ways—ask me sometime how I injured my knee delivering a children’s sermon. I also have the ability to run into almost every obstacle...
by Jolene Philo | Dec 26, 2022 | Caregiving, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Growth
How can I be grateful for disability? The question seems ludicrous, even unfeeling when I consider what my father, son, and now my mother experienced due to disability.So how is it, the day after Christmas, that I am grateful for the disabilities that continue to...
by Joe and Cindi Ferrini | Dec 21, 2020 | Church, Special Needs Parenting
Inclusion and mainstreaming have long been a back and forth quandary. How inclusive must a classroom be? If the special needs student doesn’t understand numbers, should he or she be in a regular math class? If this student has a buddy to help in an art class, should...
by John Fela (Felageller) | Jan 31, 2020 | Autism, Church, Special Needs Parenting
One of the greatest struggles that Christian parents of special needs children deal with is finding and maintaining a church home in which their child is welcomed, supported and included in the life and community of the church. This is also the mission of many faith...
by Key Ministry | Dec 31, 2019 | Anxiety Disorders, Mental Health, Spiritual Development
God created us with two empty spaces: our stomach and our heart. He allows us to choose what will fill them. Our choices can be life-giving or life-draining. It’s important to know your EET. Not your EKG or EEG, but your EET—your “Emotional Eating...
