Great Article On Welcoming A Special Needs Child
I just read the marvelous article by Jennifer Buell (Meet My Son: A Mom’s Insight on how your ministry can welcome children with special needs, p. 60ff in the Jan/Feb issue of Children’s Ministry Magazine) and was really excited about the topic and how it demonstrated truth. We definitely need to be a church as large as ONE and as small as ONE! I was ashamed at my own lack of sensitivity and compelled to change when I read Jennifer’s hint, “include my child”, listen to what she says:
One of my deepest frustrations is people who either let my son roam aimlessly around the room, not even trying to include him, or try to physically restrain him until he works into a fit of hysterics.
Read this article (and email me for the PDF if you want to feature it in your newsletter or on your website at kjohnson@group.com) FANTASTIC job and one that gives us all a firm grasp on how to reach “the least of these.”
NEW RELEASE! Resource for Parents of Disabled Children
“Freedom, Healing for Parents of Disabled Children” a wonderful resource for parents of children with special needs, is now available through the Olive Leaf Ministries. As the parent of an Autistic and deaf child, Nancy Douglas has brilliantly written her account of what life with a disabled child is truly like. Written especially for and in honor of these parents, “Freedom” brings the much-needed hope of Christ to those amidst great grief, pain, and sadness.
Read an excerpt from “Freedom” by visiting: http://www.oliveleafministries.com
Blessings,
Olive Leaf Ministries