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Monthly Archives: May 2015
Mental health inclusion…The importance of getting the right people around the table
If you’re seeking to start a mental health inclusion ministry initiative and your job title is something other that Senior Pastor, Job #1 is to get buy-in from the most senior leader in your church. Here’s why… Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Families, Inclusion, Key Ministry, Mental Health, Strategies
Tagged church, gifts, Inclusion, Key Ministry, mental health, senior pastor, Stephen Grcevich MD, talents, team building, work experience
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Does adoption Christianese sometimes feel like a sucker punch?
For children in adoptive or foster placements, their lived experiences might offer a perceived theology of a God who abandons, a God who watches but is not overly involved, a God who leaves, or several gods who are interchangeable as different caregivers. Then when we take those assumptions about God and layer confusingly positive Christian clichés about adoption, the end result can be dismissiveness instead of discipleship. Continue reading
Church, let’s stop equating vertical adoption and horizontal adoption
When we choose our words about adoption, let’s do so carefully so that we don’t add to the trauma and hurt that might already be present in our churches. Continue reading
Posted in Adoption, Advocacy, Foster Care, Key Ministry
Tagged Adoption, church, horizontal adoption, Inclusion, Key Ministry, Shannon Dingle, vertical adoption
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Christians, are we being wise with the words orphan and fatherless?
We still use “orphan” or “fatherless” a lot in the church when we’re talking about adoption and foster care, even when those words don’t fit with our current culture or a specific circumstance. Why? Continue reading
Posted in Adoption, Advocacy, Families, Foster Care, Key Ministry
Tagged Adoption, children's ministry, church, fatherless, Inclusion, Key Ministry, language, orphans, Shannon Dingle, student ministry, words
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Seven reasons church attendance is difficult when kids have mental illness…
Today, we’ll start by identifying seven reasons church attendance/participation is difficult for families of kids with mental illness.
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Welcome Ryan Wolfe to our Key Ministry team…
Ryan (along with Shannon Dingle) is available through our FREE Consultation Service to come alongside churches of all sizes when they have a child or family impacted by disability they’re called to serve. Continue reading
Church, what if we think _______ diagnosis isn’t a real thing?
I don’t hear Jesus suggesting that we place bouncers at the door of a Luke 14 banquet to ensure that folks are crippled enough, lame enough, or blind enough. Continue reading
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