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Category: Reading the Signs

Reading the Signs columns are written by members of the Nebraska Conference Disabilities Ministries Board. They are offered for use in Conference and Local Church newsletters as an accessibility tool. Permission to print given by Nebraska Conference newsletter editor of The Nebraska Record.

Blessed Are Those Who Do Not See

A Reading the Signs column written by Jo Ackerman, Pastor at Clay Center, NE

When I have complained to others about my failing eye sight and how frustrated I am with cooking directions that are printed in the smallest of type on the “side” of the box or the struggle to read information that is printed with black ink on red paper, I get comments of agreement and learn that others also have this frustration.

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Door Knobs and Yardsticks: A World of Difference

By Jo Ackerman, Pastor of Clay Center, Nebraska

The Nebraska Conference is proud of its churches that are making an effort to be accessible to all of God’s people. The term “accessible,” as used in many of our churches, means being able to gain entrance to the building. Some churches have constructed ramps and installed elevators; others consider a rear entrance sufficient.

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Seed Money

What inspires a flock of geese to shape a V or a church to focus its energy?

“The greatest thing is a matter of dignity,” said Wayne Heathers, member of First Congregational Church UCC of Curtis, NE. “You might not understand that, if you have never been shut out from something.”

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Necessary Things

Lincoln, 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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