by Sandra Peoples | Apr 26, 2022 | Adoption, Church Support
This is the second post in a series titled: Churches That Encourage Adoption Should Be Trauma Informed and Disability Accommodating. Read part 1 here. God’s directive for adoptive families is the same as it is for every family. But adoptive, special-needs...
by Lisa Jamieson | Jul 6, 2021 | Church Support, Mental Health, Special Needs Ministry
Thank you for making the Gospel and Christian community accessible to people with complex lives, with disability or medical challenges, mental health issues and other special needs.Tis the season when caring ministry leaders and volunteers typically try to do some...
by Catherine Boyle | Sep 3, 2020 | Church Support, Mental Health, Training Events
My paternal grandfather was a pastor. He and my grandmother were both second generation Americans. They got married in 1927, had four kids, and ultimately settled in western Virginia after living in Cincinnati and Chicago. My grandmother raised those...
by John Fela (Felageller) | Apr 10, 2020 | Autism, Coronavirus, Special Needs Parenting
It was a Sunday afternoon in mid-March; I found myself parked in the driveway of my now ex-wife’s house. I had just dropped off my son after having him for the weekend, as it was my time with him, according to our parenting agreement. I no sooner put the car in...
by datc3 | Mar 26, 2020 | Church Support, Depression, Hidden Disabilities, Mental Health
I wrote a companion post to this one on Church and Mental Health on how Christian counselors need to look for ways they can be supporting pastors. The hope is between that post and this one, we can begin to align the goals of the Church with mental health, as well as...
