Statistics show that only 5 percent of churches have an outreach to disabled persons and that 95 percent of the people who have disabilities are not active in any church. Why not? In many cases, churches are newly coming to awareness of the need for disability ministry but have no idea how to start or what's involved. All God's Children is a handbook for pastors, elders, ministry leaders, and laypeople who want to minister to people with disabilities. It is a book to equip churches for ministry to those who are mentally retarded, learning disabled, hearing impaired, visually impaired, or...
Statistics show that only 5 percent of churches have an outreach to disabled persons and that 95 percent of the people who have disabilities are no...
Edith Margaret Clarkson Margaret Clarkson Joni Eareckso
"It was not long after I left the hospital in 1967 that I fell into a deep pit of depression. I was but a young girl, yet I was facing an overwhelming future - a life of total and severe paralysis. I was in desperate need for answers...A young friend who often cam by my home for visits stopped by one day with a special book in hand ...Together, we read that book through the weeks of winter ...I eagerly look forward to each chapter - discovering sense in sovereignty and delighting in a new grasp on God's grace...May I be the friend who stops by in your life this day? You have in your hands...
"It was not long after I left the hospital in 1967 that I fell into a deep pit of depression. I was but a young girl, yet I was facing an overwhelming...
