Resources for Celebrating Disability Week

This year marks Disability Concern's 30th Birthday! The Christian Reformed Synod encourages churches to celebrate Disability Week October 15 - 21, 2012. Disability Concerns has two pages on our site that will be especially helpful for congregations preparing for this celebration.

• Resources for Worship – includes ideas for sermons, litanies, two different one-week devotionals by Barbara Newman, and more.
• Disability Concerns Infographic: This graphic shows how God has been at work in churches, leading them to become more accessible to people who have disabilities, in their buildings and programs.
• Resources for Accessibility Awareness – includes ideas for building and worship accessibility, and a one page sheet (great for church newsletters) with 30 practical ideas for including people with disabilities in church life.

Already have resources? Please share them! Pastors and worship leaders, Disability Concerns would love to see what you have already done. Please send us your sermons, sermon outlines, meditations, litanies, and liturgies that you have used to help your congregation reflect pastorally, theologically, and liturgically on disability. We'll post the best of them on our website for others to use for their own planning. If you do not wish to have your material made public, please let us know when you send it to us. Thank you!