I really love following this blog, it informs me on so much going on in our world with special needs and has opened my eyes to realizing how so much of children’s, youth, and family ministry needs to adjust and adapt special needs ministry. Actually, not just children’s, youth and family – but entire congregations. Special Needs Ministry is not a program it is a way of ministry needing to be fully integrated to fully serve our communities.
In our tenth and final segment of our series, Ten Things I Wish Church Leaders Knew About Families and Mental Illness, we’ll look at one of the most compelling reasons for churches to pursue intentional outreach to families impacted by mental illness…the reality that the church is incomplete without the gifts and talents of the kids and families in their surrounding communities who don’t know Jesus and don’t have a local faith community to call home.
For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in…
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