The Education for All Handicapped Children Act was enacted in 1975, just two years before my sister with Down Syndrome was born. Public Law 94-142 was still new to our small town in Oklahoma when my mom sat down for her first IEP meeting in 1983, when it was time for my sister to start…
When I go to bed on Sunday night, everything is ready for the coming week. The schedule is full. The menu board is full. The dishwasher is full. The laundry basket is full. The refrigerator is full. The in-box is full. The lunch box is full. The to-do list is full. I am full—full of…
I got to know Amy Fenton Lee through her special needs ministry site, The Inclusive Church. I love reading her posts about special needs ministries around the country and what works for them. She has a passion for children with special needs, their families, and the growing number of churches who serve them. Thanks to…
My younger son James has nine more hours of school left (he goes three hours a day for three day a week). And then–it’s game on. We’ll start our routine of making popsicles, playing in the pool, swinging, going for walks, finding new parks, picking tomatoes, visiting the library, and counting down the days until…
Lee and I are trying to give our boys a big world view. We want them to love and reach the nations. We’re even okay with them growing up to be missionaries. That’s why we start each day by praying through Operation World. Operation World gives facts about each country in the world and lists prayer requests for…
When my husband and I were in seminary, we had a little joke to be able to tell the missionaries from the rest of us. Missionaries were the ones who wore flip flops in January. They spent more time outside in the grass than in the library. You could go to their houses and probably…