on a mission to make the UCC Accessible to All (A2A)
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The second Sunday of October, Access Sunday, launches Disabilities Awareness Week. Consider incorporating into worship this blessing of tools that bring fullness of life to individuals and your church.
Hint: Mention the blessing in newsletter and church so folk can determine what objects, architectural changes, and other devices bring them freedom.
Comments closedLincoln, Nebraska’s Northeast Community Church views things differently because of Scott Pigsley and Diana Coberly. Scott, 13-year-old son of Gina and Jerry Pigsley, knows God sees the person inside his body with spina bifida. “When God looks at me, God looks over that I’m in a wheelchair and sees a normal person.”
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The genesis point of our religion is God’s looking at each creature and seeing, first, that it is good.
Comments closedA Reading the Signs column by Jeane Tyler
“We have something to say. We want to be heard. Communication is what a church is about.
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A can-do forum about accessibility for the whole church family
“Today, I knew what was happening. It was like a Thanksgiving song,” Sherryl Yokel’s voice greeted her pastor. Later, Mrs. Yokel added, “I feel more comfortable in church now. I understand the [choir’s] songs and what Bob says.”
Comments closedChildren’s Book written by Daryl Green
This engaging story opens up the difficult theme of being different in ways that are easily related to by both children and adults
Written by Gina and Mercer Mayer Racine, Wisconsin: Golden Books Publishing Co., Inc., 1992 One of a serieis of books about disabilities attitudes
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