Our Program Committee is excited to have received some excellent submissions from prospective speakers for this year’s Inclusion Fusion Disability Ministry Web Summit. We want to draw attention to “up and coming” leaders with fresh ideas to contribute to the disability ministry movement, and offer an opportunity to folks with great stuff to share but haven’t been able to break into the conference circuit, because the deadline for new submissions (Tuesday, July 31st at 11:59 PM Eastern Time) is rapidly approaching!

We’re sending out a final reminder to pastors, ministry directors, volunteers, families and anyone else with passion for seeing families of kids with disabilities connect with local churches. A member of the Program Committee will be in touch with every speaker who served on faculty last year…you need not reapply at this time.

The opportunity to serve as an Inclusion Fusion faculty member to any member of our larger family in Christ with excellent ideas or strategies to contribute to the field of disability ministry. After all, doesn’t that reflect what it means to be inclusive?

If you or someone you know has implemented an innovative ministry strategy for serving kids or adults with disabilities or developed resources to support families with the spiritual challenges they face in raising kids with disabilities, here’s your invitation to apply to join our faculty for Inclusion Fusion 2012, scheduled for November 12th-16th 2012.

We’re looking for cutting-edge presentations from leaders working in the field of disability ministry and we encourage discussion of diverse ideas and views. Some areas of concentration under active consideration for this year’s Inclusion Fusion, topics under consideration include family-based ministry, outward-focused inclusion, “hidden disabilities,” curriculum adaptation, innovative inclusion, orphan care and volunteer/team development. We encourage submissions from leaders working in small church environments.

Applicants are required to have the technical resources to produce their video presentations for the conference and transmit the finished video to our partners at Pajama Conference. We’re suggesting presentations of 15-20 minutes in length (30 minutes maximum) in order to accommodate as many speakers as possible for this year’s Inclusion Fusion.

Last year’s inaugural conference (featuring keynote speaker Chuck Swindoll) served over 1,300 registrants, including senior pastors, ministry leaders, church staff and volunteers from 42 states and five countries.

Prospective faculty members can submit ideas for presentations by clicking this link. Here’s a list of featured presentations from last year’s conference. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, July 31 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time. Prospective faculty are required to submit links to video of any previous teaching or training presented on topics related to special needs or disability ministry.

The Inclusion Fusion Program Committee plans to make final determinations on the faculty lineup by Friday, August 31. Submissions are not a guarantee of acceptance! Faculty are required to submit final copies of video presentations and Power Point handouts by Friday, October 5.

Please share this invitation with leaders who need to be part of Inclusion Fusion 2012! Feel free as well to share suggestions for this year’s speaker lineup in the comments section below, or directly with me at steve@keyministry.org.

Key Ministry’s mission is to help churches reach families affected by disability by providing FREE resources to pastors, volunteers, and individuals who wish to create an inclusive ministry environment. We have designed our Key Catalog to create fun opportunities for our ministry supporters to join in our mission through supporting a variety of gift options. Click here to check it out! For a sixty second summary of what Key Ministry does, watch the video below…