Create Worship Spaces Where Everyone Can ParticipateIf people with disabilities are to fully participate, worshiping communities must go beyond providing physical accessibility. In this groundbreaking book, a diverse group of authors provides resources for churches and individuals to center disability: to take seriously the lived experience of disabled people, learn from their wisdom, and transform how we pray, worship, and speak about faith.Centering D...

Including People with Disabilities Is Essential to Your Church's WitnessGod wants people of all abilities to be active participants in his kingdom. But churches have not always made it clear that people with disabilities are both part of God's story and fully welcome in their communities. If the church is to be a credible witness, it must reach and include people with disabilities within its evangelism, mission, and everyday life.In Disability and Evang...

Including People with Disabilities Is Essential to Your Church's WitnessGod wants people of all abilities to be active participants in his kingdom. But churches have not always made it clear that people with disabilities are both part of God's story and fully welcome in their communities. If the church is to be a credible witness, it must reach and include people with disabilities within its evangelism, mission, and everyday life.In Disability and Evang...

Nearly twenty percent of adolescents have developmental disabilities, yet far too often they are marginalized within churches. Amplifying Our Witness challenges congregations to adopt a new, practice-centered approach to congregational ministry -- one that includes and amplifies the witness of adolescents with developmental disabilities. Replete with stories taken from Benjamin Conner's own extensive experience with befriending and discipling adolescents with developmental disabilities, Am...

In recent decades churches have accommodated people with disabilities in various ways. Through access ramps and elevators and sign language, disabled persons are invited in to worship. But are they actually enfolded into the church's mission? Havethe able-bodied come to recognize and appreciate the potential contributions of people with disabilities in the ministry and witness of the church?Benjamin Conner wants to stimulate a new conversation between disability studies and Christian theol...

Building on the work and legacy of Darrell L. Guder, Converting Witness: The Future of Christian Mission in the New Millennium, explores key questions and new possibilities in missiology in light of the world Christian context. The conversation around missional theology and the missional church has examined the gap between theology and mission with the intent of fostering renewal within North American Christianity. But this can only fully occur in relation to the reality of world Christian...