News and notes from AMD, 10 May 2019

Here are the highlights of postings this week from the Association of Ministers with Disabilities, Disability Ministries Committee, Mental Health Ministries, Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Ministries Committee, and UM Congress of the Deaf:
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AMD

• Love remains (eulogy for Rachel Held Evans): https://crippastor.wordpress.com/2019/05/04/love-remains-my-eulogy-for-rachel-held-evans/
• Are you afraid of monsters? https://crippastor.wordpress.com/2019/05/06/are-you-afraid-of-monsters/
• Disability, justice, environment: https://catapult.co/stories/when-disability-is-a-toxic-legacy-se-smith
• Challenges of disability: http://features.commonwealthfund.org/the-challenges-of-living-with-a-disability-in-america-and-how-serious-illness-can-add-to-them
• Dear clergy, we also need to be ministered to: https://sojo.net/articles/dear-clergy-we-also-need-be-ministered
• Review of Having Nothing, Possessing Everything: https://flyingkittymonster.blogspot.com/2019/05/professing-crip-review-of-mike-mathers.html
• Do and don't, preaching on disability: https://kevintimpe.com/dos-and-donts/
• Are you still doubting? https://crippastor.wordpress.com/2019/05/09/are-you-still-doubting/

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DMC

• 3D parking zone: https://www.wthr.com/article/speedways-first-3d-parking-space-draws-attention-no-parking-zones-reserved-handicap-access
• Braun Ability, Driving Force campaign: https://www.braunability.com/us/en/community/the-driving-force.html
• Helping people with disabilities belong: https://umdisability.blogspot.com/2019/05/helping-people-with-disabilities-belong.html
• Speech-generating technology (UMNS) https://everydaygrace.tv/2019/02/finding-a-voice-in-the-church/
• A different kind of service dog fraud: https://www.snopes.com/ap/2019/05/03/in-lawless-world-of-service-dogs-many-families-suffer/

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DHM

• Audio Loops in MN: https://www.minnesotaumc.org/itworkeddetail/12395241
• Deaf Seniors at Magothy: https://www.facebook.com/magothydeafchurch/photos/pcb.10157014396644277/10157014392939277/?type=3&theater
• ASL at public events: https://resources.gradimages.com/interview-with-a-sign-language-interpreter-part
• Hearing loss and depression: https://hearinghealthmatters.org/hearingnewswatch/2019/hearing-loss-depression-risk/
• Everybody's church?: https://pres-outlook.org/2019/05/everybodys-church/

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MHM

• Overcoming stigma, finding hope: https://youtu.be/eH7oqDZk0bM
• Mental Health Month bulletin insert: http://mentalhealthministries.net/resources/bulletin_inserts/may_mental_health_month/mental_health_month.pdf

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NEJ Deaf Ministry Boot Camp, May 18, 2019
https://www.umcd.org/newsnej/1905.html
UMCD SCJ Conference, July 19-21, 2019
https://huntsvillefirstunitedmethodist.wufoo.com/forms/s1lgngfm0dhwft8/
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