RESOURCES AND ADVOCACY INFORMATION
Here are some resources for your disability ministry:
Books:
· Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole, Julia Watts Belser (Beacon Press, 2023)
· A Healing Homiletic: Preaching and Disability, Kathy Black (Abingdon Press, 1996)
· The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability, Nancy L. Eiesland, (Abingdon Press, 1994)
· Human Disability and the Service of God, Nancy L. Eiesland & Don E. Saliers (Abingdon Press, 1998)
· How Ableism Fuels Racism: Dismantling the Hierarchy of Bodies in the Church, Lamar Hardwick (Brazos Press, 2024)
· No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement, Joseph P. Shapiro (Three Rivers Press, 1994)
· Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, Alice Wong (Vintage Books, 2010)
· Vulnerable Communion: A Theology of Disability and Hospitality, Thomas E. Reynolds – (Brazos Press, 2008)
· My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church, Amy Kenny (Brazos Press, 2022)
· Leading a Special Needs Ministry: A Practical Guide to Including Children and Loving Families, Amy Fenton Lee (Orange Books, 2014)
· The Accessible Church: Making the Church a Welcoming Place for Children with Special Needs and from Traumatic Backgrounds, Kerri Ann Hayes (2022)
Curriculum
· Friendship Ministries – TOGETHER Curriculum
· Joni and Friends Church Resources
Podcasts
· Disabling the Church from the Center of Disability and Ministry
Online Resource Hubs
· Disability Ministries The United Methodist Church