Adapting Your Curriculum
In this video of All Access 2023, Amy Troyer from The Chapel in Green in Uniontown, OH shares how to adapt your curriculum so every student can understand the lesson! All Access Disability Ministry Conference Link
Creating a Personal Mission Statement
Did you know there was a time Eve didn’t have a name? In Genesis 2, God created her (woman, ishshah in Hebrew) from man (ish). The man is called Adam in verse 2:20, but Eve didn’t receive her name until after the fall, “The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother…
Supporting Students with Disabilities as They Transition from Children’s Ministry to Youth Ministry
In this video, Ryan Faulk from Joni & Friends share tips for supporting students with disabilities as they transition from children’s ministry to youth ministry.
David’s Steps of Inclusion: Realization, Restoration, and Invitation (2 Sam. 9)
In this story from David’s life, I see the same steps our church took: realization, restoration, and invitation. Churches can follow that same pattern. It starts with our theology and then changes our practices.
Inclusion Basics for VBS Teachers
My friend Julie (who serves as the inclusion coordinator for special-needs families at our church) and I recorded a video for all the VBS teachers and helpers to get an overview of how to best include kids with invisible disabilities! I edited the one for our church down to a shorter version that anyone could…
discipline or Disability?
In a breakout I did on invisible disabilities, I got a question about how you can tell the difference between disobedience and disability. Are they choosing to disobey or are they unable to obey? That’s a tough one, isn’t it? And one we may get a lot from children’s ministry leaders, especially those who have…
