Welcome to United Church of Christ Disabilities Ministries Community and Resources

This site is designed and maintained by the UCC DM web team to help members and friends of the UCC explore what it means for our churches (and our hearts) to be “accessible to all” (A2A Study Guide).

Some resources here are available to download. You can check on new developments or read about our 25+ year history of advocacy within our denomination and the wider world.

OR - you can tell a story, ask a question, respond to something already posted. We are aware that the work of creating accessibility in our buildings, in our programs and in our hearts is not easy. Our UCC DM believes that by building community and sharing our many varied gifts we make this work a little easier and less lonely!

For guidance in our journey towards full accessibility we turn to these words received by an early Christian Community in 1 Peter 4.8-11a (RSV):

Above all hold unfailing your love for one another. . . . Practice hospitality ungrudgingly to one another. As each has received a gift, employ it for one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who utters oracles of God; whoever renders service, as one who renders it by the strength which God supplies; in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ.

Current Discussions

  • Book Review: Souls in the Hands of a Tender God ---

    Souls in the Hands of a Tender God is a beautifully written, highly readable, inspiring book, authored by the Rev. Dr. Craig Rennebohm, a United Church of Christ Pastor and Chaplain.
    Craig artfully interweaves the spiritual, biological and medical aspects of living with brain disorders commonly known as mental illness. He shares deeply moving parables […]

  • Statement of Solidarity ---

    We, as organizations and self-advocates representing members of the
    disability community, recognize the dignity of individuals with
    intellectual disabilities, the challenges they and their families face, and
    the meaningful and powerful contributions they make to their families,
    their communities, and their country,
    Acknowledge that individuals with intellectual disabilities have been
    subject to discrimination, abuse, and exclusion from society throughout
    history;
    Recognize that the […]

  • Talk with Disabilities Inclusion Associates and Teams ---

    Follow Disabilities Inclusion Associates Jacky Schofield and Ann Marino and blog with the team as they develop the Connecticut Conference Disabilities Ministry Team.
    Connecticut Conference Disabilities Ministries Team Report
    First Quarter 2008
    JANUARY
    The first meeting of the Disabilities Ministry Team was held on January 29, 2008 at the office of the Connecticut Conference in Hartford.
    In attendance […]


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