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Informationen zum Autor Joni Eareckson Tada is founder and CEO of Joni and Friends, an organization that communicates the gospel and mobilizes the global church to evangelize, disciple, and serve people living with disability. Joni is the author of numerous bestselling books, including When God Weeps , Diamonds in the Dust , and her latest award-winning devotional, A Spectacle of Glory . Joni and her husband, Ken,were married in 1982. For more information on Joni and Friends, visit www.joniandfriends.org . Greg Newman is a specialist in physical education who works in church, educational, and recreational settings. He earned the MA from California State University, Northridge. Klappentext Handbook for pastors! elders! ministry leaders! and lay people who want to minister to people with disabilities. This revised edition includes an updated resource list. Zusammenfassung Statistics show that only 5 percent of churches have an outreach to disabled persons and that 95 percent of the people who have disabilities are not active in any church. Why not? In many cases, churches are newly coming to awareness of the need for disability ministry but have no idea how to start or what's involved. All God's Children is a handbook for pastors, elders, ministry leaders, and laypeople who want to minister to people with disabilities. It is a book to equip churches for ministry to those who are mentally retarded, learning disabled, hearing impaired, visually impaired, or otherwise physically disabled. This edition is extensively revised, especially the chapters on hearing-impaired persons and on getting a disability ministry started. The resource lists have been expanded and brought up to date. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: The World of Disabilities ... or Is It Handicaps?I. God Does Not Create AccidentsII. Tremendous PossibilitiesIII. The Role of the PastorIV. The Role of the VolunteerV. Mental RetardationVI. DeafnessVII. Physical DisabilitiesVIII. Visual ImpairmentsIX. Learning DisabilitiesX. Getting StartedNotesAcknowledgments...
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Joni Eareckson Tada is founder and CEO of Joni and Friends, an organization that communicates the gospel and mobilizes the global church to evangelize, disciple, and serve people living with disability. Joni is the author of numerous bestselling books, including When God Weeps, Diamonds in the Dust, and her latest award-winning devotional, A Spectacle of Glory. Joni and her husband, Ken,were married in 1982. For more information on Joni and Friends, visit www.joniandfriends.org.
Greg Newman is a specialist in physical education who works in church, educational, and recreational settings. He earned the MA from California State University, Northridge.
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Handbook for pastors, elders, ministry leaders, and lay people who want to minister to people with disabilities. This edition is extensively revised, especially the chapters on hearing-impaired persons and on getting a disability ministry started. The resource lists have been expanded and brought up to date.
