Committee on Accessibility Ministries - IGRC

Disability Awareness Sunday in this Sunday. Please consider celebrating this important this day, if not this Sunday, some Sunday before Thanksgiving. If you do not want to take a specail offering, consider collecting spare change for a month. All funds collected go towards helping our churches become physically and spititually more accessibile for people living with disabilities.

A retiring pastor with a disability speaks his own truth.

William Barber Departs Pulpit of Greenleaf Church with an Ode to the Power of Disability Called by some as the successor to Martin Luther King Jr. because of his advocacy for poor people, Barber moves to Yale Divinity School to head a new center for public theology and public policy.

Disability Awareness Sunday is THIS Sunday. Yet it can be celebrated any Sunday this fall. Again, at least 50% of our mission field is affected by disabilities. WE HAVE TO START SEEING PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING WITH DISABILITIES. Jesus looked to the margins, we must also. Celebrating this Sunday will help your church begin to see those living with disabilities and their families. That is step one. Then once you see them, you can begin to ask how can we be the hands and feet of Jesus in their lives.
Don't want to take up another special offering?? October is Disability Awareness Month. Consider asking people to bring their spare change for the month of October to put in a jar or bottle. Then send the money collected as your offering for Disability Awareness Sunday.

Disability Awareness Sunday is September 25th. Check this page out for resources

Disability Awareness Sunday Churches in the Illinois Great Rivers Conference observe Disability Awareness Sunday on the fourth Sunday of September or another date convenient to the congregation. Churches are encouraged to receive a special offering, which is remitted to the conference (IGRC # 0020 - Disability Awareness Sunday...

Thanks to our friends in the UMVIM NCJ for calling attention to this online opportunity - and to the UMVIM for offering a seminar on such an important topic!

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