ACCESS SUNDAY
“Not everybody has a minister like Diana,” said 13-year-old Scott Pigsley of Lincoln, NE. “Things like this tell other wheelchair-users we won’t banish you from our church.”
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Category Archives: Reading the Signs
Accessibility for the Whole Church Family
A Nebraska Conference RECORD focus issue about Disabilities Ministries
This issue of The Nebraska RECORD shares delightful stories about tangible and architectural changes reported recently by United Churches of Christ from Omaha to Chadron and Lincoln to Ogallala. These stories — set in larger, 12-point type – tell of changes which vary in levels of magnitude, yet they all have equal weight. They are concrete evidence of attitudinal change.
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Interpreting for the Deaf
“Everybody has a right to learn through their eyes or their ears,” Robyn Weber said. “I am here as a tool to help one person understand.”
Developmental Disabilities – Adventures in Community Camp
“Snapshots” of the Adventures In Community Camp, Outdoor Ministries shared by the Disciples of Christ and the United Church of Christ in Burwell, Nebraska.
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Attitudinal Accessibility – Be Yourself When Meeting a PWD
The other day, as my dog guide and I walked to the mail drop box, we passed three playing children. One piped up, “Are you the blind lady?”
Ignoring an older girl’s attempt to shush him, I said, “Yes, I’m blind, and I’m left-handed, too.”
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Clergy With Disabilities – All God’s Creatures
All three of us, each with a unique ministry, have been accepted here for who we are “inside.” My heart rejoices in this gift from a generous God to be sent to this church.
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Attitudinal Accessibility – Getting Rid of the Hyphen
Sometimes it takes awhile for the hyphen to disappear. Two words expressing a unit idea first accept a hyphen then release it to form a compound word. Basket and ball were once separate words that became basket-ball, then basketball.
At a wedding dinner, the curiosity of a young boy prompted him to pull up a chair. He was full of wanting to hear about my dog guide, I thought.
After some dog talk, he paused. “Then, you’re not afraid of the dark,” he said with the relieved voice of one who might be. “I’m not afraid of the dark with Leader Dog Treasure,” I said, Both of us knew we had gotten rid of the hyphen, and he went off with a friend.
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