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How Special Needs Ministry Benefits Volunteers & Churches | Meet Mr. Nick

Mar 3, 2014 | Categories: "How Can I Help?", Advocacy & Awareness, How to help, Inclusion, Joni and Friends, Ministry and kidmin leaders, Parent Support, Special Needs Ministry, and Uncategorized. Tags: Family Retreat, How Can I Help?, how to help, Inclusion, JAF, Joni and Friends, Joni Camp, local resources, Ministry and Kidmin leaders, One Body, Special Needs Ministry, SpNMin, and The Inclusive Church.

In last week’s post, I shared about how Special Needs Ministries are needed to reach the 90% of special needs families who do not attend church. Most simply can’t. I also shared a few practical ways that extended –and spiritual– family can help. You can imagine how inclusive churches and special needs ministries bless special needs families like mine. And as a Special...

Goldeluxe & The Three “Must Bears” of Special Needs Ministry

Oct 8, 2013 | Categories: How to help, Humor, Joni and Friends, Ministry and kidmin leaders, Parent Support, Special Needs Ministry, and Uncategorized. Tags: humor, JAF, Joni and Friends, local resources, and SpNMin.

A tribute to special needs ministry champions who honor our families with “Gold-deluxe” service. I’ve been each of these three “Must Bears” at some point. Supporting complex families like ours can be a delicate, sensitive and prickly endeavor. Thank you for your calling, passion and dedication to serve where many others dare not tread. ...

Swim-A-Thon: Let’s Go Team Jeremy!

May 29, 2013 | Categories: "How Can I Help?", Fun That Works, How to help, Inclusion, and Uncategorized. Tags: local resources.

As you can see, Jeremy LOVES the water. His current record is six hours in the swimming pool, coming out only for mandated potty breaks. But swimming lessons for a pre-verbal kid with autism who requires 1:1 instruction, can be prohibitively expensive. All the more reason I’m so grateful for SNAP. What is SNAP? Special Needs Aquatic Program (SNAP) is a...