Tracey Lehman is a member of Columbus Mennonite Church (OH) and the mother of two young adult sons with Down syndrome. Communications Director Sarah Werner recently sat down with her to talk about her experience with the religious education programs her sons participated in when they were growing up.
Peter Goerzen, professor of biblical studies at Bethel College, discusses the wide variety of accessible Bible translations that are available.
Sarah Werner reviews the book Cripping Youth Ministry, edited by Justin Forbes and Erin Raffety.
Anabaptist Disabilities Network and Herald Press invite you to a webinar with author John van Sloten about his recently-released book, Thy Tender Care.
Anabaptist Disabilities Network invites you to watch a webinar with Dr. Benjamin Conner on the topic of wonder.
Anabaptist Disabilities Network is deeply troubled by the recently released opinion from the US Department of Justice questioning the constitutionality of the Olmstead Decision, which gave individuals with disabilities the right to live in community.
Naturally Inclusive by Ruth Wilson is an excellent resource for parents and educators looking for practical advice on helping young people with disabilities to connect with the natural world.
Last week 41 participants from 19 congregations in 9 states gathered for a retreat to kick off the All In Project at Laurelville Retreat Center in Mt. Pleasant, Pa.
Dean Preheim-Bartel, a forerunner in disability ministry, died on February 5, 2026, in Goshen, Indiana at the age of 78. Dean was a leader of disability and mental health ministry for Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and Mennonite Mutual Aid (MMA).
This year’s Lenten devotional from Herald Press, Blessed Is the Body: Disability Justice and the Community of Christ by Tatum Tricarico, is a thoughtful and accessible reflection on biblical texts centering disability and how they can inform the life of the church.
We Are Able, a service-learning camp for adults with intellectual disabilities, will be held this summer at Amigo Centre in Sturgis, Michigan.
Jonathan Shively began his role as board president of Anabaptist Disabilities Network on February 1, 2026.
Camp Friedenswald, a Mennonite camp in southern Michigan, has worked hard to make their camp a place that is accessible and welcoming for people of all abilities.
Nineteen congregations have been chosen to participate in the All In collaborative project, exploring ways to worship that are multisensory and accessible for people of all ages and abilities, especially children with disabilities.
Anabaptist Disabilities Network and Herald Press invite you to a webinar with Tatum Tricarico, author of Blessed is the Body, a Lenten devotional centered around disability justice.
What if our Church gatherings were designed with everybody in mind – from toddlers to elders, from disabled folks to neurodivergent thinkers?
All In Project Director Keli Boyer led a conversation about the All In Project: the application process, our resource partners, and the five-year plan for pilot congregations.
Sensory rooms are needed places of quiet in the midst of celebration. Here Sarah Werner shares about the sensory room at Mennonite Church USA’s biennial convention.
Board member and field associate JE Misz shares advice for how churches can welcome people with anxiety.
Are you curious about the All In project and wondering if it might be a good fit for your church? Join us for a live All In Info Session on September 30th at 6 PM Central/7 PM Eastern. We’ll share what participating congregations can expect and leave time for Q&A at the end.
A sensory space is a designated space that has fidgets, weighted blankets/lap pads, rocking chairs, wobble cushions, noise-reducing headphones, coloring, and other aids that help increase calm and focus for people who have sensory processing disorders, ADHD, anxiety or are autistic.
Do you have a sensory space in your worship space (or do you want to have one)? Where is it located in the worship space? How did you create it? What did you put in it? Who uses it? What has been helpful? What has been challenging? What benefits have you seen?
ADN and the CoB’s Discipleship and Leadership Formation department renewed their partnership to provide training, education, and resources that support congregations in becoming more inclusive of people with disabilities and mental illness.
ADN and the CoB’s Discipleship and Leadership Formation department renewed their partnership to provide training, education, and resources that support congregations in becoming more inclusive of people with disabilities and mental illness.
ADN and the CoB’s Discipleship and Leadership Formation department renewed their partnership to provide training, education, and resources that support congregations in becoming more inclusive of people with disabilities and mental illness.
ADN and the CoB’s Discipleship and Leadership Formation department renewed their partnership to provide training, education, and resources that support congregations in becoming more inclusive of people with disabilities and mental illness.
Field Associate Sarah Werner reviews the anabaptist baptism & membership curriculum for adults with intellectual disabilities.
In this collaboration with Mennonite Women USA for Disability Pride Month, Sarah Werner redefines her disability as something to be proud of, not something to be ashamed of.
Sarah Werner shares about how she connects to God in the natural world.
In this poem, Sarah Werner provides an eloquent imagining of what it feels like to be wholly welcomed into God’s Community.
Sarah Werner reflects on the church’s changing beliefs about physical disabilities and calls us to a more embodied approach to worship.
Deborah-Ruth Ferber shares about her experience visiting a L’Arche community in Warsaw, Poland and the warm welcome she received.
The season of Advent is about the hope of waiting. When you’re the caregiver to a child with a disability, your life is all about waiting.
Cam Taylor’s story is a personal journey with the health struggles, emotional impact, and sense of loss that he and his wife, Vicky, faced after they were involved in a traumatic motorcycle accident.
Many thanks to the many participants and volunteers who made ADN’s annual Circles of Love Banquet a success!
Rachel Joy, supported by Portland Mennonite Church, provides a few hours of editing services to ADN monthly. ADN is thrilled by this partnership!
At MC USA Convention in Orlando this summer, I led a workshop on autism in the church youth group.
Too often mental illness, self-harm, and suicidality goes unrecognized in youth. How can adults in the church intervene to be a lifeline?
In 2014, Columbus Mennonite Church implemented the Icon Bulletin. As one of our church’s accessibility advocates and the mom of two boys with Down syndrome, I wanted our church to have a bulletin that could be meaningful to non-readers.
Madness: American Protestant Responses to Mental Illness, by Heather Vacek (Baylor University Press, 2015), examines the history of American attitudes and responses toward mental illness over three centuries.
Mark Pickens volunteers with Anabaptist Disabilities Network as a Field Associate. Field Associates partner with ADN from their home location to offer their services in program areas that contribute to ADN’s mission.
Pastor Dan Longmore shares a few suggestions about how you can be helpful to someone who is visually impaired.
Accessible Gospel, Inclusive Worship, by Barbara Newman offers a plan, or process, for including people with disabilities in the church setting.
