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Honoring a Place in Faith Communities
for People with Disabilities and Their Families
Peaceful Living Conference
Saturday, September 13, 2008
7:00 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. Pastors’ Breakfast
8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Workshops
Host Location: Salford Mennonite Church
480 Groff’s Mill Rd., Harleysville, PA 19438
*This facility is handicapped accessible.*
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Key Take-Aways
- Enrich congregational life by welcoming people with disabilities and recognizing their gifts.
- Provide church leaders with knowledge and tools to feel confident and compentent as they reach out to people with disabilities and their families
- Build support networks for family members dealing with the joys and stresses of having a child/sibling/other family member with a disability
- Assure that people with disabilities in our community are included fully in a supportive church community, if they wish to be.
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Who Should Attend?
- Clergy
- People with Disabilities
- Parents/Families of People with Disabilities
- Elders/Deacons/Congregational Caregivers
- Congregational Educators
- Direct Care Professionals
- Companions/Caregivers
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Featured Speakers
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Richard Steele, Ph.D. - Seattle Pacific University, Professor of Moral and Historical Theology and father of a daughter with a disability; author of (among numerous books and articles) a book chapter, Five Things I'd Like a Youth Minister to Know about Disabilities.
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Bill Gaventa, M. Div., Associate Professor and Director, The Elizabeth M. Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Co-editor of the Journal of Religion, Disability and Health; Columnist for Insight, the national newsletter for the ArcUSA.
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Hans Reinders, Ph.D.-Willem van der Bergh Professor of Ethics and Mental Disability at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Internationally known author and presenter and parent of a child with a disability. His seminar will focus on ethical issues faced by people in disability services. Author of; Receiving the Gift of Friendship: Profound Disability, Theological Anthropology and Ethics. Eerdmans Publishing (February 2008).
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