News and notes from AMD, 13 March 2020

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:
-

• Courtesy of Lovers Lane UMC, we'd like to offer an alternative to toe taps, elbow bumps, and other gyrations to avoid potentially infectious contact: American Sign Language, "Peace be with you."
  

AMD

• Beckie Writes: Cats don't need to repent
• Great Lakes ADA center webinar: ADA and Religious Institutions
• Book Announcement: Changing Attitudes About Disability
  

-
DHM/UMCD

• Christ Deaf UMC worship
• St. Andrews UMC fundraiser
• Living with hearing loss: Dining out toolkit
• Katherine Bouton: Coronavirus and people with hearing loss
• NAD: Signing is a Language Act  introduced
• DHM on the web: list of Deaf and interpreted church services online
  

-
DMC

• Foodbank Australia: respect for disabled in shopping
• Shawnee News-Star: UMC and others partner for autism grant
• Andrew Pulrang: Coronavirus and people with disabilities
• New Mobility: Covid-19 Disability-specific coverage
• Lifeway Research: Churches believe they are welcoming to those with disabilities
• Beckie Writes/New Mobility: My smart friends
• Cherokee Tribune & Ledger-News: Community for disabled donation
• (Summer) Institute of Theology is cancelled or delayed
  

-
MHM

• BP Hope: Saving your mood when switching to daylight savings time
• MHUK: Mental Health and Coronavirus
• Looking into hearts
• Christian Century: Pastoral care during coronavirus outbreak
• Faith and fear
  

-
Click here for a list of events of interest to people in disability ministry.

This newsletter is generally issued weekly by the
United Methodist Association of Ministers with Disabilities,
a caucus of the United Methodist Church.

Click here to join this e-mail list.
This newsletter is also published on the UM Disability Blog
Visit us on the web or Facebook.