Changing Attitudes

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When Someone is Considering Suicide
How can we help prevent suicide?
Walking through Fears into the Wonder of Love
Epiphany
Celebrating Love
Advent Week Four
Finding Joy
Advent Week Three
The Prince of Peace
Advent Week Two

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- A Church for All People
  Some congregations are finding that when they talk openly about mental health, it becomes natural to include mental health problems in the care and support they offer.
- A Lot of Fun Miracles
  Tamara Gill shares how friendship with children with disabilities has changed her life
- A Meaninful Role to Play
  Chou Gabikiny is a counselor, consultant, and mother to children with disabilities. She explains how churches thrive when everyone has a role to play.
- A Worthy Part of God's Family
  Chrissie Denino's church celebrates her baptism after she expresses her faith using sign language.
- An Extraordinary Life
  An Extra Ordinary Life, by Rhoda G. Penny, reviewed by Rebekah Flores.
- And Who Is My Neighbor?
  Seattle Mennonite members are companions to neighbors who have been homeless, many of whom have a mental illness.
- Anti-Ableism 101
  Learning from people with developmental disabilities to experience healing as a broken person
- Bionic, with a Sense of Humor
  Christine Purves reflects on aquiring disabilities while growing older
- Building God's Kingdom One Job at a Time
  Christian employers are learning about the positive outcomes of employing people with disabilities.
- Can I Play Too?
  Adults have a unique opportunity to create a supportive climate for children with autism by educating typical peers about autism.
- Celebrating Love
  Advent Week Four
- Come and See
  Learning from Mary-Anne to see prayer time as sacred and enjoyable once again.
- Come Live with Me
  Five things I never knew about people with developmental disabilities until I started living with them. By Deborah Ferber.
- Come Thou Long Expected Jesus
  As we prepare to celebrate the birth of Christ, how do we reach out to those who are lonely?
- Community Transformation at L'Arche
  Community transformation means offering a stranger a cup of cold water and through that cup of water transforming the relationship into a friendship.
- Dancing with Alta
  Learning to contra-dance from a gifted young dancer with Down syndrome
- Finding Joy
  Advent Week Three

- Five Ridiculous Things You Probably Believe About Mental Illness
  Debunking common misperceptions about mental illnesses
- Following the Call, Finding a Way
  Bryce Miller shares about his call to ministry in light of living with cerebral palsy.
- God Can Turn Us to Hope Again
  In the ICU, you wait. Wait for a nurse to come turn you, wait for your next meal to be delivered, wait for pain to subside, wait for independence to return, wait for dignity to be restored.
- Hear Then the Parable
  When we enter into authentic friendship with people with disabilities our worldviews and preconceived notions of humanity are confronted and transformed.
- Hsi-Fu’s Gift
  Getting to know Hsi-Fu is an adventure, and once you form a friendship with him, you know you are holding a rare gem in the palm of your hand.
- Making Friends with Time
  Learning the Advent grace of waiting for another with openness of heart
- Ministry at L'Arche
  Deborah Ferber reflects on the connection between living at L'Arche and her seminary studies preparing for ministry.
- My Brother Who Doesn’t Say a Word
  Even though Christopher cannot speak, Deborah has learned that togetherness can happen when they share a meal together, listen to good music together, or laugh at a good joke.
- On Learning to Grieve Beautifully
  Life lessons in living with grief learned from living companions with developmental disabilities
- On Learning to Live a Lot
  Life lessons from living with people with developmental disabilities: Learning to live a lot suggests that we haven’t giving up, that we are still breathing and moving forward.
- Open Hearts, Open Doors
  Good news for people with disabilities is close to the heart of Jesus’ gospel message and the mission of Anabaptist Disabilities Network.
- Panda Cake and Down Syndrome
  Friends with developmental disabilities help make a birthday party filled with warmth and love.
- Perfect in God's Sight
  “Remember, you are perfect in God's sight,” athlete Tim Berta reflects, after surviving a traumatic brain injury.
- Ready and Able
  Tony Walters, a deacon at Papago Buttes Church of the Brethren who happens to have autism, helps prepare for the congregation's love feasts.
- Redefining Disability
  At First Mennonite Church, ability or disability seem irrelevant, as persons with disabilities contribute through leadership and other gifts.
- Semester of the Heart
  A story of priorities reoriented by living in community with people who have developmental disabilities
- Stigmatizing and Separating: A Parent's Plea
  A mother describes the world of stigma and injustice that her daughter with an intellectual disability faces. Stigmas towards those with disabilities need to change, and need begin in the church.

- Thank You
  The words “thank you,” coming from a man who rarely speaks, embody God's hospitality and gratitude to a caregiver
- The Kingdom of God is like...
  With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it?
- The Least of These
  The intersections of poverty culture, race, and mental health
- The Messages of Community
  After spending time with friends with developmental disabilities, the author comes to realize their rare awareness and maturity.
- The Point of No Return
  Dwight Roth paints a haunting word picture that challenges us to think about who we are and how we show compassion
- The Prince of Peace
  Advent Week Two
- The Weak are Indispensable!
  Could the Apostle Paul have been thinking about people with disabilities when he wrote, “The members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable”?
- The Wisdom of God
  By choosing to become the scapegoat of humanity’s violence, Jesus radically identifies with the suffering “other”
- To stare or to gaze
  How will we look at people with intellectual disabilities? with a stare or with a gaze?
- Tragedy Opens a Door
  Pastor Bob Molsberry reflects on the hit-and-run bicycle accident that has left him using a wheelchair and how this experience contributes to his ministry overseeing congregations in Ohio.
- Tribute to Aunt Debbie
  A tribute to a beloved aunt, who had many fondly remembered qualities, one of which was that she had Down syndrome.
- Walking through Fears into the Wonder of Love
  Epiphany
- When Someone is Considering Suicide
  How can we help prevent suicide?
- Will you be my friend?
  For the first time I understood that people with developmental disabilities asked the same questions and shared the same hopes that I did.
- Worship Service Marks Mental Health Awareness Month
  One congregation's effort to raise awareness and offer support
- Youth Ministry for All Abilities
  Resources and reflections from The Gathering Place on youth ministry that includes people with disabilities, from eight Anabaptist writers and speakers.

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