Gordon Temple with Lin Ball
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Churches for All
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Churches for All
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
Churches for All Enabling church Churches for All is a partnership of UK Christian disability organizations. These partners have a breadth of experience and depth of knowledge on disability issues – challenging and enabling churches to fully include disabled people. The aim of Ch…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Who’s disabled? Disability in the UK
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Who’s disabled? Disability in the UK
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
Who’s disabled? Disability in the UK The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and the subsequent Equality Act 2010 both define a disabled person as someone who ‘has a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his or her ability to carry o…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - From the Lausanne 2010 Cape Town Commitment – Part 2, Section IIB, 4
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - From the Lausanne 2010 Cape Town Commitment – Part 2, Section IIB, 4
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
From the Lausanne 2010 Cape Town Commitment – Part 2, Section IIB, 4 People with disabilities form one of the largest minority groups in the world, estimated to exceed 600 million. [The latest World Health Organization figures put this at over one billion.] The majority of these …
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Holding an accessibility audit
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Holding an accessibility audit
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
6 Living with diversity There are a number of accessibility audits online which a church can use to check out barriers to access for disabled people. Detailed notes on this topic are not within the scope of this book, but some basic ideas are outlined here…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Living Diversity
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Living Diversity
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
6 Living with diversity 1 Corinthians 12.12–26; Romans 12.3 – 6 Purpose: to think about how to recognize and release the gifting of disabled people as a contribution to the unity and wholeness of the body of Christ…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Entering the Gate called Beautiful
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Entering the Gate called Beautiful
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
5 Entering the Gate called Beautiful Acts 3.1–10, 16; Luke 5.17–26; John 9.1–3 Purpose: to identify barriers to worship that might keep disabled people distanced from Jesus; to explore ideas of stigma, inclusion, forgiveness, healing and wholeness…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Experiencing God in togetherness
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Experiencing God in togetherness
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
4 Experiencing God in togetherness Genesis 2.18 –22; Psalm 68.5, 6; John 17.20 –23 Purpose: to explore God-given models of community; to consider the challenge of isolation and loneliness as a particular issue for disabled people…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Standing up for justice
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Standing up for justice
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
3 Standing up for justice 2 Samuel 4.4, 9.1–11; Mark 10.46 –52 Purpose: to explore the idea of inclusion as a matter of justice, not charity; to look at self-worth, identity and dignity; to consider disabled people as contributors…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Knowing we're made in his image
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Knowing we're made in his image
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
1 Knowing we’re made in his image Genesis 1.26 –31; 1 John 3.2 Purpose: to explore what it means to be human, made in God’s image; to challenge prejudices about what is ‘normal’. Prayer Thank God for the Bible – his inspired message to us all – and for all that it can teach us of…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Quoted on the Disability Wall
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Quoted on the Disability Wall
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
Quoted on the Disability Wall Laurence Banks Laurence Banks is Deaf. He has worked with Go! Sign for over ten years and is currently employed as their part-time ministry director. He preaches and teaches around the UK and overseas and has recently completed a theology degree at t…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Author's introduction
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Author's introduction
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
Author’s Introduction: Living interdependently The life experience of those in the African bush is so different from that of those in Europe, as I discovered on a trip to Malawi and Uganda. I felt privileged to spend time with some of the poorest people on the planet: blind peopl…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Foreword and Acknowledgements
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Foreword and Acknowledgements
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
Foreword One of the things I welcome about this creative and timely book is its confidence that Scripture is the starting point for thinking about disability. For some decades activists and academics have been debating disability issues, often expressing radical and new ideas. Ye…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - How to get the best out of this resource
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - How to get the best out of this resource
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
How to get the best out of this resource This book is written for any church, home group or individual believing that any disabled person should be welcomed, valued and enabled to make a contribution to the work of God in his or her community. The contributors hope that you will …
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Introduction
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Introduction
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
Introduction Enabling is what I believe the Church should be about: enabling all people to discover God’s amazing love; and enabling each person in the body of Christ to play his or her part, so the Church of Christ can function to its full potential…
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