An important skill in disability ministry and any ministry with kids and teens is how to support positive behavior choices and decrease opportunities for distracting behavior. All behavior is communication. It’s our job to figure out what the child is communicating with the behavior and fill the need before it leads to distracting behavior. The…
Knowing where to being with policies and forms can feel intimidating, but you don’t have to create them from scratch! Below are the Google doc versions of forms we’ve created for our ministry that you can download and adjust for your needs! Disability Ministry Adult Volunteer Application Disability Ministry Youth Volunteer Application Family Care Plan Individualized Spiritual…
A family care plan is an info sheet kept by the staff to help know the family who needs care and organize how to meet their needs. You can customize it to fit what your church offers. Who can see the FCP? It’s up to the family, but generally the staff, small group/ministry leaders,…
What would happen if you asked 10 of your closest friends how they define the word worship? Probably, they would each say something a little bit different. Worship is not definable by one thing, and that is part of its beauty! Worship is not one thing, it changes from culture to culture, church to church,…
The thrill of hope—a weary world rejoices. For special-needs families, this time of year can feel weary. We’re out of our routine, there are extra expectations on us, and we are jealous of those families who don’t seem to have the same limitations we do. That’s why Christmas’s message of hope is exactly what we…
When we got our son’s autism diagnosis in 2010, there was no special-needs ministry at our church. Because my husband was the pastor, we couldn’t go to the big church in the next town that did have a great disability ministry. We had to hope and pray church members would step up and take…
