Committee on Accessibility Ministries - IGRC

03/31/2024

HE IS RISEN!!!

09/18/2023

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.

09/06/2023

Disability Awareness Sunday is coming up. This year it is September 24th. Make plans to celebrate the way Jesus includes all of God's children, regardless of ability, in His Church. If you do not want to take up a special offering, consider collecting spare change for the month of October which is disabilitry awareness month. All funds gathered for this day go toward offering grants to make the church properties in our confernce more acessible, begin new ministries for people living with disabilities, and/or help someone living with a disability go on a mission trip. If you need help celebrating this day email Rev. Randy Shepard. randy.shepard622@gmail.com

06/23/2023

A retiring pastor with a disability speaks his own truth.

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.

04/11/2023

Accessibility can include what we do about fragrances, given that many people are sensitive to them.

"...I figured she would understand her flowers could be a problem. I was wrong."

01/29/2023

12/20/2022

09/23/2022

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.

08/19/2022

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

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...

08/04/2022

Disability Awareness Sunday is September 25th this year. However, it can be celebrated any Sunday. Please stay tuned for materials you can use for this Sunday!

06/15/2022

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!

Join us for this discussion! Registration - https://forms.gle/pvNzPeBSJPesBDVw5

05/18/2022

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