Letter from the Director
Welcome Fall!
Dear FIN,
I don’t know about you, but I am thrilled to bring in the Fall season. Cooler weather, (we hope) an academic season in full swing and loads of community activities for fun and learning abound this time a year in Hampton Roads. So I passionately encourage you to read on and be a part of a region that values individuals and families affected by disability and is striving toward a more inclusive community in all settings, including our faith communities.
Blessings,
Karen Jackson
Pathways to Powerful Inclusion Session III
Sat. Oct. 20 9:00-11:00 am
Our series of three sessions on disability ministry conclude on Oct. 20 with “Congregational Responses to the Call for Inclusion”, a presentation focused on all the ways faith communities work to support families affected by disability in local congregations and around the country. Karen Jackson will lead the presentation with guest speakers Associate Pastor Jason Hutchenson from Worship United, an adult social ministry and Kristina Foster, who leads a successful faith based respite program, Recharge Respite.
All are welcome and registration is free. And the most exciting news, we are now partnering with the Virginia Autism Foundation and their annual Tidewater Autism Summit at the YMCA Grom Center. Join us at 9:00 am at the Y and then move on over to the next room and learn all you can about local autism resources!
Thank you to Angela West (pictured with Samantha J.) and Clay Rushing (pictured above with Karen Jackson) for being guest speakers at our first two sessions and thank you to the Hampton Roads Community Foundation for their support of the Pathways to Powerful Inclusion Project.
Authors, Authors, Authors!
Mark your calendars (or register now) for March 7-8, the 6th bi-annual That All May Worship Conference-2019, The Art of Inclusion and come meet the authors. They are definitely some of the most inspiring writers the faith and disability national community has to offer!
Also, keep updated on presenters, breakout sessions and more by following our TAMW-2109 Conference Facebook page.
Erik Carter, Including People with Disabilities into Faith Communities
Shelly Christensen (new publication, coming soon) From Longing to Belonging
Rev. Bill Gaventa, (new publication) Disability and Spirituality, Discovering Wholeness
Stephanie Hubach, Same Lake Different Boat,
Rosemarie Hughes, Forever Parenting (new publication, coming soon)
Lisa Jamieson Finding Glory in the Thorns
Anne Masters Pastoral Ministry with People with Disabilities Parish Resource Guide
David Morstad (new publication) Whole Community
Barbara Newman, Accessible Gospel, Inclusive Worship
Jolene Philo, Does My Child Have PTSD?
Maureen Pratt, Salt and Light (new publication)
Thomas Reynolds, Vulnerable Communion
Rev. Mark Stephenson, Inclusion Handbook
New Resource
Maureen Pratt, a new FIN friend from CA, has just released a book called, Salt and Light, a valuable new resource that should definitely be in your personal or faith community’s library. Salt and Light is an easy to read resource that reviews the history of disability ministry in the Catholic Church and provides thought-provoking ideas from the perspective of a person who lives with disability herself. Bring your book along to the TAMW-2019 Conference in March and have Maureen sign your copy!