<p>​<span aria-hidden="true"></span>Anabaptist Disabilities Network (ADN) is announcing a new Barrier-Free Grant program that offers financial assistance to congregations for projects that facilitate barrier-free community life.<br></p>

<p>​<span>​​Of all the places we inhabit, church should be among the most accessible. Until disability was something I dealt with every day, I might have said we were doing pretty well. We have elevators, handicapped parking spots, railings heading up toward the pulpit. But then I spent this last Christmas Eve at my home church&#160;and I came up against a barrier I wasn’t expecting&#58; gluten.&#160;<span style="display&#58;inline-block;"></span></span></p>

<p>​<span>​<br>When I was a child sitting at a midnight service on Christmas Eve many years ago, a light suddenly shone through the rose window at the front of the sanctuary. I whispered in awe to my older brother, “Look… the light…” He answered, “You dummy. They just turned the street lights on.” Crushed, I accepted his interpretation for years. It wasn’t until decades later that a friend asked me, “Why would they be turning on the street lights at eleven o’clock at night?” Her question opened other&#160;possibilities. Sometimes our ability to embrace sacred moments depends on our ability to be open to them.<span style="display&#58;inline-block;"></span></span></p>

​​​Love is a Verb… is Accessible! Expanding Access to Accessibility Services at Orlando for Persons Touched by Disabilities​​

The prayer that Jesus taught his first disciples, known as the Lord’s Prayer, is one of the most familiar prayers in the church, known worldwide and in numerous cultures and languages. Scholars and teachers who research the origins and context of this biblical and historical prayer reflect on the radical and revolutionary nature of this transformative text. It has today become so familiar that many learn its content by heart and pray it individually as well as corporately in worship.​