Key Ministry has been blessed with an extraordinary team of staff and volunteers who come with a remarkable depth of experience in serving kids with the most complex disabilities and their families in both the church world and the secular world, along with a passion that they would all experience the love of Christ through the ministry of a local church. We’re proud to announce the eighth and newest member of our travel team, making her debut on the road at Key Ministry’s inaugural JAM Session tomorrow in Cincinnati…Amanda Mooney.

Amanda received her Bachelor’s degree, majoring in Multi-handicapped Education from Bowling Green State University, along with a Master’s Degree in Education, with a concentration on Early Education of the Handicapped. Amanda spent five years as a Special Needs Preschool Teacher in Ashtabula and Wood Counties in Ohio, and was honored as Teacher of the Year in 1998 by the Northeast Ohio Special Education Resource Center.

Amanda has been a member of St. Gabriel’s Parish in Concord, OH for 33 years, and has served on staff as the Principal of St. Gabriel’s Parish School of Religion (PSR) since 2008. In her staff position, Amanda oversees a team of 40 volunteers offering programming for 330 children in grades 1-5 on a weekly basis, along with a comprehensive Special Needs ministry serving members of the church of all ages. Last summer, her team partnered with Key Ministry to create a unique event in which Vacation Bible School was extended for a sixth day exclusively as a respite experience for families of kids with disabilities in their community.

Amanda employs a visionary approach to religious education to more fully involve parents as the lead teachers in their child’s faith journey. She lives in Concord, OH with her husband, Dave and their two kids, Tommy, 8 and Lilly, 5.