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  • Friendship
    <p><span class="ms-rteFontSize-3">​</span><span class="ms-rteFontFace-1 ms-rteFontSize-3">How does God describe friendship?&#160;</span><span class="ms-rteFontSize-3" style="font-family&#58;tahoma;">Proverbs 27&#58;17 says, &quot;As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.&quot;&#160;</span><span class="ms-rteFontSize-3" style="font-family&#58;tahoma;">Let me share with you about a friendship that has truly helped sharpen me.</span><br></p>
  • Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
  • SEEDS: Socialize, Encourage, Engage, Disciple, Serve
  • Weathering the Pandemic for Families with Special Needs
    <p>​<em style="font-size&#58;12px;">Note&#58;&#160;</em><em style="font-size&#58;12px;">All names have been changed in this article</em><br></p><p>The Covid-19 crisis has people in our churches and communities facing intense stress. People living alone, laid off from their jobs, or quarantined in health care units, are experiencing scarcity or drought&#58; a loss of freedom of movement, social connection, purpose, or income. For others, this pandemic is like a flood. Health care workers, parents, and those in the service industry are trying to stay afloat as the responsibilities and risks placed on them rise.<br></p>
  • Why I Went to a Funeral for Someone I Never Knew

 All posts on Intellectual Disabilities
    • A Generous Exchange
      A younger helper learns from a powerful teacher who happens to be an older woman with developmental disabilities
    • A Gift for Loving
      A father learns that his son has a gift for loving others, which he shares freely with his church family.
    • A Lot of Fun Miracles
      Tamara Gill shares how friendship with children with disabilities has changed her life
    • A New Commandment
      Will we let people with cognitive disabilities wash our feet and transform our conceptions of what it means to be a Christian and what it means to be human?
    • Anti-Ableism 101
      Learning from people with developmental disabilities to experience healing as a broken person
    • Bridget's Blessing
      A friend, met just minutes before, soothed my deepest grief for my aunt with the sweetest of smiles and the deepest of understanding. Like my aunt, my new friend had Down Syndrome.
    • Camp Safari
      Camp Safari for people with intellectual disabilities was a new camp this year for the Southern Ohio District Church of the Brethren.
    • 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.
    • 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
    • Discovering Discrepancies
      Opening our eyes to the mistreatment of adults with developmental disablities in the legal system, and a challenge to become involved.
    • Forgiving God
      When Dayle's sons were diagnosed with Fragile X syndrome, she struggled to let go of the future she had envisioned. Here, she shares her journey to accept and embrace an unexpected life.
    • Friendship
      Naomi Epp recounts the ways her friendship with Chantel has been a blessing for both of them.
    • Friendship's Worship Team
      A worship team from Friendship Community involves persons with intellectual disabilities in leading worship in Pennsylvania congregations.
    • God, I know you're there!
      Learning about prayer and forgiveness through the deep spirituality of friends with developmental disabilities.
    • 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.
    • I'm Famous!
      Introducing Ellie Wenger, a teenage girl with Down syndrome who lives a rich life
    • It's all in the face
      While I see a face with Down syndrome and think of home and life, our culture looks at this face and sees only abnormality.
    • Learning Wisdom
      Learning wisdom through worship with people who have intellectual disabilities
    • Little Things
      Those who know persons with disabilities know how important little things are – a sound, a movement, a breath. Wilfred Martens tells about the profound gift of a smile where it's least expected.
    • Making Her Presence Known
      Enabling people with intellectual disabilities to fully express themselves requires turning away from society's discomfort with difference.
    • 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.
    • Need and Creatureliness
      Many people with developmental disabilities know and befriend their neediness, and thus are able to live in a freedom of the Spirit that can also be transformative for us.
    • On Learning to Live a Lot
      Life lessons from living with people with developmental disabilities&#58; Learning to live a lot suggests that we haven’t giving up, that we are still breathing and moving forward.
    • Partners in Ushering
      Mari Janzen took the initiative to make Tom her ushering partner, and together they are learning to know everyone in their large congregation.
    • 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.
    • Semester of the Heart
      A story of priorities reoriented by living in community with people who have developmental disabilities
    • Thank You
      The words “thank you,” coming from a man who rarely speaks, embody God's hospitality and gratitude to a caregiver
    • The Feast of the Incarnation
      Celebrating the Incarnation as a sign that our salvation comes through the earthly and material reality that we are
    • The Messages of Community
      After spending time with friends with developmental disabilities, the author comes to realize their rare awareness and maturity.
    • The Peace of Christ
      Can we open our hearts and lives to the most vulnerable so that they can transform our vision about what it means to be Christian, citizens, and human?
    • 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?
    • 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.
    • True Prayer
      Today I experienced a real God moment while praying with our core members at L’Arche.
    • We Are Able Workcamp
      A balance of work and play helps create lasting friendships that makes this workcamp a meaningful experience for teens and young adults with developmental disabilities.
    • Where's the justice in that?
      Why are so few people with developmental disabilities present in our churches? Next time you go to church, have a look around, note who is in attendance and resolve to do what you can do to bring those who aren’t already there into the fold.
    • Why I Went to a Funeral for Someone I Never Knew
      Contributions made by a person with an intellectual disability often aren't recognized. L’Arche has taught me that God also uses those whom society deems unfit to teach us what humanity, love, laughter, and life are really and truly all about.

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