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Category Archives: Strategies
Leading online support groups…Lorna Bradley
Online support groups create pathways of connection and support for even the most isolated of special needs parents. Continue reading
Five Tips for Special Needs Ministry Leaders…Beth Golik
Here are five tips and techniques that, in my experience, are key to get you started and keep you moving and growing. Continue reading
I love adoption, but…
When we say yes as a church to caring about vulnerable children and families, let’s also say yes to talking about related challenges too. Continue reading
Joe Butler…Connecting with families in your community
It’s not about starting a “special needs ministry,” as much as it’s about changing your philosophy of ministry to include families affected by special needs into the life of your church. Continue reading
When it’s scary to say yes…
If we ask families in our churches to say yes to adoption, then we need to be ready to say yes to those families and their children if they need support after their yes leads to unexpected challenges. Continue reading
Posted in Adoption, Families, Key Ministry, Resources, Strategies
Tagged ADHD, Adoption, Autism, church, epilepsy, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, Foster Care, HIV, Key Ministry, PTSD, Shannon Dingle
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Mental health recovery and the role of the church…Joe Padilla
If you approach your pastor by saying you want to “start a ministry for mental illness,” they immediately start thinking: money, people (leaders), building space, and then they are naturally flooded with “stigma” concerns regarding liability (remember they do not have a full understanding … yet).
We need to take a different approach that doesn’t overwhelm the pastor. Instead, let’s invite them into a new process of understanding and the implementation of practical support that will not overwhelm church resources. Continue reading
To love adoptive and foster families, (5) be willing to listen and learn.
Listen to the challenges we encounter as adoptive and foster families, such as being conspicuous in public due to adopting or fostering a child of a different race, considering dissolution or disruption of a child’s placement within our family in favor of another family who might be better equipped to meet the child’s needs, losing friends or family who don’t agree with our choice to adopt or foster, and struggling with the special needs of our child, whether known before placement or presenting as a surprise post-placement. Continue reading
A small church doing big things…Ellen Stumbo
If a mom is sitting in the foyer with a child, we make sure that mom is not sitting on her own, because what is the point of going to church if you sit alone in the foyer trying to keep your child calm from the overwhelming stimulation of church? Sometimes, some of the best conversations happen in the foyer, or walking around the church parking lot pushing wheelchairs. Continue reading
Posted in Families, Inclusion, Inclusion Fusion, Key Ministry, Ministry Environments, Strategies
Tagged Disability Matters, Disability Ministry, doing life together, Ellen Stumbo, Inclusion Fusion 2014, Key Ministry, microchurch, Orchard View Alliance Church, organic, sensory rooms, Why Disability Matters
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