News and notes from AMD, 28 June 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

• Older Adult Ministry: dementia, https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10157147910513654&id=121094358653&notif_id=1561386185517953
• Locking people up for money: https://crippastor.wordpress.com/2019/06/24/the-problem-with-locking-people-up-for-money/
• NYT disability series, Stuttering made me a better writer: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/opinion/reading-writing-stuttering.html?fbclid=IwAR37SzyA1HrAchGRRLhLp2PR2aegfsfgf7Qy-yt3lMFAtwEQGex6FFELZ5Y
• Easterseals reply: https://blog.easterseals.com/her-stutter-made-her-a-better-writer
• Money and children: https://crippastor.wordpress.com/2019/06/27/money-children-and-jesus/

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DHM/UMCD

• Deaf Ministry of LLUMC video: https://www.facebook.com/DeafMinistryofLoversLane/videos/743152836100365/
• June newsletter: https://www.umdeaf.org/news/
• Review of Caulfield's Ephphatha: https://livingwithhearingloss.com/2019/06/25/interesting-reads-ephphatha-by-dr-thomas-caulfield
• Books+media updated: https://www.umdeaf.org/resource/book.html
• Deaf awareness in Mountain Sky conference: https://www.mtnskyumc.org/newsdetail/raising-deaf-awareness-on-the-western-slope-12063752
• ASL program in Kansas: https://news.ku.edu/university-kansas-edwards-campus-adds-american-sign-language-asl-bachelors-degrees

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DMC

• Churches excluding disabled people, three articles: 
• https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/jun/21/kings-college-chapel-will-strive-to-be-more-open-after-autistic-boy-ejected
• https://themighty.com/2019/06/paul-rimmer-church-disability
• https://broadview.org/autistic-boy-booted-from-church-service
• Disability justice: https://sojo.net/articles/full-affirmation-disability-justice
• Disability words: https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2019/04/23/disability-is-not-a-dirty-word-handi-capable-should-be-retired
  
• Discussion videos: https://network.crcna.org/disability-concerns/videos-and-discussion-questions-lets-talk-about-disability
• Helping people with disabilities belong: https://umcdmc.org/2019/06/26/developing-a-heart-and-eye-for-inclusion
• PW lists new books: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/80501-four-new-books-on-disability-and-faith.html

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MHM

• A challenge: https://www.facebook.com/186943104662050/photos/a.212469705442723/2415540961802242/?type=3&theater
• Learning: https://www.facebook.com/186943104662050/photos/a.212469705442723/2420797377943267/?type=3&theater

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