News and notes from AMD, 20 December 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

• Random Acts of Expression: Advent Prayer
• Captivating Magazine: Blindness understanding
• CRCNA: Arthritis is a disability, not a crime
• Random Acts of Expression: Advent Joy
• CBS This Morning: Fatigued pastors investing in mental health
• DSQ: Biblical and theological perspectives on disability in Kenya
• KPIX: interview with Donna Fado Ivery
• Random Acts of Expression: O Antiphons
  

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DHM/UMCD

• Deaf Link: Ampara celebrations
• Allerlay: automatic transcription reviews
• Verywell: Deaf Community in Rochester NY
• Faith Inclusion Network of Dallas: Find2020 with T. Hudspeth
• DHM Grants: January cycle
• Cornell news: ASL thrives
• Today: Hearing loss and suicide
  

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DMC

• Captivating Magazine: Holiday Traveling
• Social Security Disability proposed changes
• Ferris State University: Asperger's and accommodations
• Beckie Writes: Recommended books about disability
• Winter newsletter, The Voice
• Seeing Eye: Restaurant PSA
• Jewish Week: Starved for inclusion
• NCPD: A child with Down syndrome and sacraments
  

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MHM

• Hamilton Mabie: a conspiracy of love
• UCC MHN: Holidays
• UCC MHN: Blue Christmas Service resources
• St. Catharine's Standard: Places of worship can be havens
• A box of kisses
  

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Next issue: January 3, 2020. A blessed Christmas and happy New Year!

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