HOC2024
Thanks for attending one of my sessions at Heart of the Child! Here are links to the slides I presented: And here are other helpful links that I mentioned in our sessions: Feel free to reach out with questions! speoples@sbtexas.com
Thanks for attending one of my sessions at Heart of the Child! Here are links to the slides I presented: And here are other helpful links that I mentioned in our sessions: Feel free to reach out with questions! speoples@sbtexas.com
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.
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.
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…
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…
I remember the day my older sister, who has Down syndrome, went down front at church and told the preacher she had accepted Jesus as her Savior. After a few more conversations, she was baptized. Faith, even childlike faith according to Matthew 18, is necessary, and she had that faith. But my son James won’t…